We used to see in the reports by industry analysts all brands that are associated with the names of laptops manufacturers , but in fact this is the bulk of marketable mobile computers manufactured by contract manufacturers. Sell finished products can be under any brand name. In fact, the big players even place orders with several contract manufacturers at the same time, contractors or change from one generation to the other products.
The volume of global notebook PC market forecast according to Topology Research Institute, next year will grow by 3% to 185 million. Pieces. Of this amount, almost 75% of the laptops will be issued by the Taiwanese contract manufacturers. By the way, almost half of the issued laptops next year will target corporate customers - this segment of the market will grow by as much as 9%.
The largest manufacturers of laptops are Quanta Computer (45,4 mln. Pieces), Compal Electronics (42,2 mln. Pieces), Wistron (21,6 mln. Pieces), Inventec (17,1 mln. Pieces) and Pegatron (10, 2 million. pieces). Here are the data for 2014. Ownership of these producers to the jurisdiction of Taiwan should not create illusions and manufacturing facilities are located in mainland China. Note that among the customers and ODM are those who can give preference to its own production facilities.