Quanta targets shipping 9.4M notebooks this year, source says
Apr 17, 2003
According to a Quanta Computer source, company chairman Barry Lam announced a new shipment target of 9.4 million notebooks this year at a recent meeting of over 200 of the company’s managers.At the company’s annual dinner in January, Michael Wang, the company’s executive vice-president, had estimated that Quanta’s notebook shipments this year would reach around 6.5 million to seven million units.Although the company declined to confirm the news, its revised target has shocked other notebook makers in Taiwan. Some makers even remarked that if Quanta achieves its new target, it will become the only "first-tier" notebook maker in Taiwan. Most of Quanta’s rivals think that the 9.4-million-notebook projection is next to impossible to achieve.According to International Data Corporation (IDC), worldwide notebook shipments this year are projected to reach 36 million units. Quanta’s new 9.4-million-notebook target would account for 26% of global shipments.Source: DigiTimes
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