With more and more brands like Acer, Dell and HP entering the market for low-cost small notebooks like the Asus’ Eee PC, the market specialists from Topology Research raised forecasts for the worldwide laptop market from 120 to 128 million units. That is around 7 percent more than expected. So Topology Research sees a plus of 37 percent in comparison to 2007 with 93 million sold notebooks. Also the notebook manufacturer from Taiwan, who are controlling far more than 90 percent of the worldwide laptop production, have raised their expectations.
Quanta Computer gains in the first quarter of 2008 a world market share of 31 percent, followed by Compal with 24 percent and Wistron with 16 percent. Together with Inventec and the Asus spin-off Pegatron they made in Q1 2008 about 91 percent of the global laptop production. Asustek (Asus) has sold for the first half of 2008 about 2 million Eee PC. Asustek (Asus) expects for the year 2008 altogether 5 million Eee PCs out of about 10 million low-cost netbooks.
The industry-wide notebook battery shortage will delay UMPCs getting into the hands of buyers, but should be over in Q3 2008.
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