Computer maker to focus on computers
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Dell's no business like mobe business Dell's ardour for the mobile phone business seems very much cooled. When asked yesterday about the company's possible interest in buying up Motorola's mobile phone business, Michael Dell responded that the company is "more focused on the computer business", and wouldn't be drawn further.â¦
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The computer-hardware giant, best known for products such as PCs and printers, on Friday laid out its plan to become a brand-name in consumer electronics products such as flat-screen TVs, music players and the devices that move content between them.
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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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PC maker expanding printer business with new photo printers. Digital cameras also a possibility.
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Anyone who's thinking of buying PC hardware in the next few months must keep an eye on the future.
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The Taiwanese electronics industry daily DigiTimes is citing motherboard manufacturers there as saying they're gearing up now for production of new models that will support three new AMD premium processors.
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Apple thinks do-it-yourself PC repair is the wave of the future. But another PC maker has other ideas.
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Desktops will be available at several retailers, including CompUSA.
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Dual-core processors to be considered single chip, company says.
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Computers built with Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processor soon will be able to take advantage of the same power management technology the company has already built into its laptop and desktop microchips.
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Intel is working on another laptop aimed at serving the developing world.
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Company will begin production on sub-1-inch hard drive later this year.
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Software maker has its eye on consumers who might be ready to make the switch from Windows.
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By Tim Culpan  Quanta Computer, the largest maker of notebook computers in Taiwan, said it was in talks to buy as many as five electronic parts makers in China, Taiwan and the United States, as the company seeks to lower costs and add products like music players.
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The device is part of the Taiwanese computer maker's ongoing attempt to re-establish itself in the U.S. market.
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A competing chip from rival Advanced Micro Devices will likely arrive several months earlier.
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As the chip industry heats up, this is the company to watch.