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EDN, July 22; Joseph Tsai, DIGITIMES [Tuesday 22 July 2008]
With the low-cost notebook market starting to pick up, Japan-based PC vendors including Sony, Toshiba, Fujitsu and NEC are all planning to launch their own low-cost notebooks, and Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) is reportedly set to manufacture the notebook for Sony, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report. Japan vendors were originally conservative about the low-cost notebook market, but with low-cost notebooks having successfully made a clear market separation from mainstream notebooks, these vendors have decided to enter the market in the fourth quarter of this year, added the paper. However, sources familiar with the situation indicated that Foxconn will only be providing components for Sony's low-cost notebook and will not be producing the entire product.
Categories: Portable Tags: Foxconn Fujitsu low-cost notebooks NEC notebook Sony Toshiba
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