According to Digitimes and industry sources, Taiwan-based Quanta Computer will continue to be the largest ODM for HP for notebooks to be launched this year. Quanta Computer has been allocated 35% of HP’s planned total orders, which is up from 32% in 2016. Quanta is also believed to be the largest notebook ODM for Apple, Acer and Asustek Computer.
There are an estimated 35 million notebooks to be shipped by HP this year and so Quanta will get orders for 12.25 million units. Quanta shipped 40.4 million total notebooks in 2016, dropping 6.67% year-on-year.
The HP distribution of orders among its Taiwan-based ODMs for notebooks in 2017 is expected to give Quanta Computer 35% and Wistron and Compal Electronics 25% each. The remaining 15% will be allocated to Inventec, the largest ODM of HP business notebooks. Wistron’s share will increase from 9.8% in 2016 while Compal’s share is likely to decline from 31% and Inventec’s from 25% in 2016.
