TAIPEI -- BenQ will roll out a line of low-cost, branded notebooks and seeks a five percent market share within two
years.
The firm will have company in the low-cost PC race, however, as it joins Asustek, Acer and
Dell in the budding "netbook" market. The global netbook market if forecast to hit 50 million units in
2009. BenQ has set a goal of 30% share (15
million units).
DRESDEN, GERMANY -- Plastic Logic has begun volume production of displays at its new, state-of-the-art plastic electronics manufacturing
facility here.
The fully automated and integrated facility will begin building the company's forthcoming electronic reading product, scheduled to come to market in early 2009.
Plastic Logic holds patents on plastic electronics
technology said to cover the manufacture of high-resolution transistor arrays on flexible plastic substrates at low temperatures. The process is said to be simpler than conventional glass silicon processes, and produces active matrix displays that are thinner, lighter and more robust than glass.
LOS ALAMITOS, CA -- Practical Components, a leading supplier of dummy components,has been notified that its supplier of dummy flip chips will not be taking any orders after Sept. 26.
Components affected by this are FA10, PB18 and PB08 series and all flip chip type components in both SnPb and Pb-free versions.
BANGALORE-- Flextronics' design services unit is drawing interest from Tech Mahindra Ltd. and Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., according to a report today in the Economic Times.
Flextronics previously announced plans to sell the Bangalore-based group, which employs 250 workers.