Contract Notebook Manufacturer Compal Hits a New Record

The mobile computing market is rising fast, even faster than the desktop segment and this means that computer hardware manufacturing companies that are producing laptop and notebook parts are now having a field day as they register high demands and equally high revenues. As most high-end notebook and laptop producers are having limited production facilities, they are using a number of contract manufacturing companies like Compal Electronics in order to meet the increasing orders.

As a result, Compal Electronics is seeing a high demand for its production facilities and, according to the news site DigiTimes, their mobile computer shipments rise by an impressive 56 percent and hit the 2.1 million units in September alone.

During the entire third quarter of the year Compal Electronics registered shipments in excess of 6 million units that translates into an increase of 19 percent over the previous year, while during the first three quarters of this year, the total number of notebooks manufactured and shipped by the company reached 16 million. This very high number of shipped units equals to an increase of 70 percent.

As the holiday shopping season comes closer, Compal Electronics is expecting to manufacture and ship another six million mobile computing systems in the following months, which would allow the company to reach a total of 22 million notebooks for 2007. For the next year the company is very optimistic as it already secured a high number of orders from important companies like HP, Dell, Acer and Toshiba and it hopes to build around 30 million notebooks.

On the financial side, Compal Electronics posted revenue of $1.23 billion during September that would mean an increase of 8 percent over the previous month and a huge jump of 52 percent over the previous year.