Company:Quanta Estimator

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Quanta Computer, Inc.
Type Public

Traded equally

 TWSE: 2382
Industry Calculator hardware
Electronics
Founded Taipei, Taiwan
1988; 34 years ago  (1988)
Headquarters Taoyuan City, Taiwan Coordinates: 25°2′59.8″N 121°22′30.8″E  /  25.049944°Due north 121.375222°E  / 25.049944; 121.375222

Key people

 Barry Lam, Founder, CEO
Products Notebooks, Smartphones, Servers, Digital televisions, and others
Acquirement Increase USD 27.8 billion (2014)

Number of employees

 over 70,000 worldwide[ane]
Website www.quantatw.com

Quanta Computer Edifice Gate in Hwa Ya Technology Park

Quanta Computer Incorporated (TWSE: 2382) (Chinese: 廣達電腦; pinyin: Guǎngdá Diànnǎo ) is a Taiwan-based manufacturer of notebook computers and other electronic hardware. Its customers include Apple Inc., Dell, Hewlett-Packard Inc.,[two] Alienware, Amazon.com, Cisco, Fujitsu, Gericom, Lenovo, LG, Maxdata, MPC, BlackBerry Ltd, Precipitous Corporation, Siemens AG, Sony, Lord's day Microsystems, Toshiba, Verizon Wireless, and Vizio. It was founded by Barry Lam in 1988. Lam continues to head the company. Quanta has extended its businesses into enterprise network systems, abode entertainment, mobile communication, automotive electronics, and digital habitation markets. The visitor also designs, manufactures and markets GPS systems, including handheld GPS, in-auto GPS, Bluetooth GPS and GPS with other positioning technologies.[3]

Quanta Inquiry title at COSCUP

Quanta Figurer was announced as the original pattern manufacturer (ODM) for the XO-1 past the One Laptop per Child project on December thirteen, 2005, and took an order for one million laptops every bit of Feb 16, 2007.[four] In Oct 2008, it was announced that Acer would phase out Quanta from the production chain, and instead outsource manufacturing of 15 million Aspire One netbooks to Compal Electronics.[v]

In 2011, Quanta designed servers in conjunction with Facebook every bit office of the Open Compute Project.[6]

Information technology was estimated that Quanta had a 31% worldwide market share of notebook computers in the first quarter of 2008.[vii]

Products

  • Apple Watch[8]
  • Apple Macbook Air[9]
  • Apple Macbook Pro[ten]

Subsidiaries

Subsidiaries of Quanta Calculator include[11]:

  • Quanta Cloud Engineering Inc - provider of data centre hardware.
  • FaceVsion Applied science Inc - telecommunication, webcam, and electronic products.
  • CloudCast Technology Inc - data software and data processing - liquidated in February 2017.
  • TWDT Precision Co., Ltd. (TWDT) - 55% ownership, which was sold in June 2016.

Major facilities

Quanta Shanghai Manufacturing City (QSMC)

Shanghai, Communist china (QSMC) This was the beginning mainland China plant built by Quanta Figurer, in Dec 2000, to focus on OEM and ODM product and currently employs nearly 30,000 people. Huangjian Tang, Quanta'south Chairman for China, manages 7 major plants, F1 to F7, 2 big warehouses, H1 and H2, and the Q-BUS Research and Evolution facility.

Chongqing, China (QCMC) Built in April 2010. Quanta Computer invested and built a plant in Chongqing, China, the 3rd plant built by Quanta Computer in China.

Achievements

2010 "Fortune" - the world's top 500 enterprises. Ranked 279

2010 "Fortune" - the globe'south height 500 enterprises. Ranked 327

2009 topped the "Earth Magazine" Benchmarking Enterprise Reputation: Chairman Barry Lam won the "nearly respected entrepreneurs entrepreneurs" glory

2009 topped the U.Southward. "Business Week" (Business organization Week) - "Global Tech 100" Ranked 7

2008 topped the U.S. "Fortune" (Fortune) - "2008 World'southward almost respected enterprises" Ranked 12

Court case

In 2008, LG Electronics sued Quanta Reckoner company for patent infringement, when Quanta used Intel components with non Intel components.[12] The Supreme Court of the U.s.a. ruled that LG, who had a patent sharing deal with Intel did not have the right to sue, because Quanta, being a consumer, did not need to abide past patent agreements with Intel and LG.

References

  1. ↑ "Quanta Computer". http://www.quantatw.com/quanta/english/about/company.aspx . Retrieved 16 Jan 2017.
  2. ↑ Lander, Marking (25 Mar 2002). "Taiwan Maker of Notebook PC's Thrives Quietly". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 7 Feb 2011. https://www.webcitation.org/5wJtatzn8 . Retrieved 7 Feb 2011.
  3. ↑ "QUANTA COMPUTER INC (2382:Taiwan): Company Description - Businessweek". investing.businessweek.com . http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot_article.asp?ticker=2382:TT . Retrieved 12 October 2012.
  4. ↑ Nystedt, Dan. "One million OLPC laptop orders confirmed". Network Globe. Archived from the original on seven February 2011. https://world wide web.webcitation.org/5wJsyR40h . Retrieved 7 February 2011.
  5. ↑ "Acer Reportedly Drops Quanta equally Netbook Maker, Chooses Compal, Winstron.". DigiTimes. 16 October 2008. Archived from the original on sixteen October 2008. http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/mobile/display/20081016185022_IN_BRIEF_Acer_Drops_Quanta_as_Netbook_Maker_Chooses_Compal_Winstron.html . Retrieved 7 February 2011.
  6. ↑ Hachman, Mark (vii Apr 2011). "Facebook Launches 'Open Compute Initiative' Servers". PC Magazine. https://world wide web.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2383257,00.asp.
  7. ↑ "Quanta remained number one notebook OEM in 1Q08, says DisplaySearch". DigiTimes. 27 June 2008. http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20080627PR205.html.
  8. ↑ Ali, Zara (2017-07-25). "Apple Scout Series iii Probable To Launch in Fall 2017 Raising Revenue for Quanta Reckoner" (in en-US). Wccftech . https://wccftech.com/apple-watch-series-3-quanta-computer/.
  9. ↑ Truta, Filip. "12-inch MacBook Air Launching in Q1, Quanta Ramps Up Manufacturing" (in en-us). softpedia . http://news.softpedia.com/news/12-inch-MacBook-Air-Launching-in-Q1-Quanta-Ramps-Up-Manufacturing-469795.shtml.
  10. ↑ "Macbook Pro lifts Quanta's Q1 revenue, but forex losses hit bottom line - Nikkei Asian Review" (in en). Nikkei Asian Review . https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/AC/Macbook-Pro-lifts-Quanta-s-Q1-revenue-but-forex-losses-hit-bottom-line.
  11. ↑ [http://www.quantatw.com/News_Core/program/news/UploadedFiles/NEWS002038/廣達106Q1合併英文報.pdf "(English Translation of Consolidated Financial Statements and Report Originally Issued in Chinese) QUANTA Computer INC. AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES CONSOLIDATED INTERIM Fiscal STATEMENTS"]. p. 12. http://www.quantatw.com/News_Core/plan/news/UploadedFiles/NEWS002038/廣達106Q1合併英文報.pdf.
  12. ↑ Staff, LII (seven January 2008). "Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG Electronics, Inc. (06-937)". http://topics.police.cornell.edu/supct/cert/06-937 . Retrieved 16 Jan 2017.

External links

  • Quanta marketplace share