Quanta Computer and Compal Electronics both saw record notebook shipments in September, shipping five million and 4.6 million units, respectively.
Quanta's consolidated revenues in September were the second highest in the company's history, while Compal hit a a company record.
Fellow notebook makers Wistron and Inventec have also reported revenues for September. Wistron's unconsolidated revenues also hit a company record. Wistron shipped 2.6 million notebooks, 550,000 LCD TVs, 950,000 desktop PCs, 800,000 LCD monitors, 140,000 servers and 700,000 hand-held devices.
For October notebook shipments, Quanta and Wistron foresee sequential decreases while Compal expects its volume to remain unchanged from September.
| Quanta, Compal, Wistron, Inventec: Unaudited revenues, September 2010 (NT$b) |
| Company | Sep 2010 | M/M | Y/Y | 3Q10 | Q/Q | January-September 2010 | Y/Y |
| Quanta | 96.699 | 11.9% | 32.8% | 269.322 | (7.0%) | 805.456 | 54.5% |
| Compal | 80.217 | 21.6% | 19.0% | 218.505 | (5.9%) | 664.518 | 51.0% |
| Wistron | 62.068 | 21.2% | 18.2% | 162.253 | 9.0% | 454.413 | 17.7% |
| Inventec* | 27.585 | (4.7%) | (19.8%) | 89.377 | 2.4% | 257.270 | (13.2%) |
* Unconsolidated revenues
Source: Companies, compiled by Digitimes, October 2010