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Compal’s Goal: Overtake Quanta
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| 21 January 2007 |
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Compal Electronics Inc said that it aimed to unseat larger rival Quanta Computer Inc to become the world's top laptop computer maker this year.
"We achieved outstanding results last year and are gearing up to become the top notebook computer maker in the world," Compal President and CEO Ray Chen said.
Last year, Compal produced a total of 14.6 million notebook computers, demonstrating a growth rate of nearly 50 percent over 9.8 million shipped a year ago, the company's statistics showed.
Total shipments this year are estimated to expand 37 percent to over 20 million units, Chen said.
The race between the world's top-two makers is a close one, as Quanta shipped 19 million last year, slightly up from 18 million a year ago. It aims to ship 25 million units by year's end.
Compal will continue to diversify into other product segments such as digital media and automotive electronics, in a bid to reduce dependence on the notebook computer productions, whose shrinking margins account for 90 percent of Compal's sales, Chen said.
The firm has said it expected non-laptop sales to account for 20 percent of total sales by next year.
Source: Taipei Times
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