Lite-On factory fire threatens PC monitor biz
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Dell, HP and Lenovo may get burned A fire at Lite-On's main flat-panel monitor factory in China could disrupt LCD display supplies across the PC industry.â¦
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p2pnet.net News:- Dell says it&#39;s recalling all most 1,000,000 Chinese-made notebook adapters because they represent a fire hazard and could also cause electrical shock.
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Dell has received seven reports of overheating involving power adapters it distributed. No injuries have been reported. The recalled adapters have the words &quot;DELL&quot; and &quot;P/N 9364U,&quot; P/N 7832D&quot; or &quot;P/N 4983D&quot; printed on the back of the unit.
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The LCD industry looks as if it's likely to blow a fuse.
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Acer, the world&#39;s third largest PC vendor, said Friday that it is keeping an eye on a labor shortage in China that could affect PC production.&quot;There is a labor shortage in China, which is new to me,&quot; said J.T. Wang, chairman of Acer, during the company&#39;s third quarter investors&#39; conference in Taipei. &quot;China has 1.4 billion people, how can they have a labor shortage?&quot; he asked rhetorically.Acer&#39;s China-based component suppliers and PC assemblers have said that in some cases they have lost 1,000 workers overnight, and have had to seek new employees. The Taiwanese company will work with suppliers on new strategies to make sure the issue does not affect production, Wang said.He characterized the concern as small, and unlikely to become a major issue in the near term.There has been a growing shortage of skilled labor in the East coast cities of China, in part due to government efforts to develop the nation&#39;s inland areas, said one analyst. Many factory jobs used to be filled by migrant workers, but now that many companies are building factories in China&#39;s interior, people feel they can stay at home and work instead of traveling to the coast.Acer president Gianfranco Lanci said factories tend to move to new places when production in a certain region becomes difficult, and he expects that will happen if companies continue to see labor shortages in China.A number of electronics firms have started investing in Vietnam. Taiwan&#39;s Hon Hai Precision Industry, the world&#39;s largest contract electronics manufacturer and maker of gadgets including iPods, PlayStation 3 consoles, and Nokia mobile phones, in August announced a&#160;plan to spend $5 billion&#160;over the next five years to build a base of electronic components factories near Vietnam&#39;s capital, Hanoi. Until now, the company&#39;s major investments have all been in China.Taiwan&#39;s Compal Electronics, the world&#39;s second-largest laptop PC maker and another major investor in China, has also announced plans to build a notebook computer factory in Vietnam.Companies have started to look outside of China for new factory investments, the analyst said, and while Vietnam, India, and other countries boast low-cost labor, they will only win investments if their workers are educated and investment incentives and regulations attractive.&#160;
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No. 1 PC maker Dell announced plans Tuesday to build a new computer factory in North Carolina and hire 1,500 workers within five years. The site for the approximately &#36;115 million, 500,000 square-foot factory has not yet been chosen, but it will likely be near Winston-Salem.
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A Lenovo laptop computer bursting into flames at Los Angeles International Airport last week was most likely the result of a defective Sony battery, according to a Lenovo spokesman
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Your work computer just suffered a major meltdown. Maybe the operating system failed, or a virus crashed the hard drive.
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The techno gadgetry retailer has another rough month.
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Dell has agreed to replace faulty laptop PC displays on nine models in response to customer complaints.
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Japanese manufacturer NEC disclosed Monday that at least two of its desktop computers in Japan have caught fire after the power supply units inside of the computers malfunctioned.
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Computer giant Dell recalled about 4.4 million AC adapters worldwide because of fire and electrical shock hazards, the company and the Consumer Product Safety Commission said last week.
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This is where computers go to die a green death.
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The home computer maker is recalling nearly a million AC notebook adapters. The company says they can overheat, catch fire, or cause electrical shock.
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Oh no, not again Another Dell laptop has burst unexpectedly into flames. This one, an Inspiron 9200, spontaneously combusted this week in Columbus, Ohio. The blaze was caught on camera.â¦
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Dell Inc.  will recall about 990,000 power adapters for some of its laptop computer models because of a risk of overheating which could lead to a fire or electrical shock, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said on Friday.
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Computer giant Dell is to recall 4.4 million laptop power adapters because of a fear they could overheat, creating a risk of fire or electric shock.