14 DAY TRIAL // Samsung has slashed in half its September orders for notebook parts, claims a new report in Taiwan's DigiTimes.
Samsung relied on seeing a sale growth of 15-20% in the notebook department, but things haven't been as smooth as they initially hoped.
According to sources deep within the supply chain, it's possible that Samsung will apply even more drastic measures and reconsider its 2013 shipment forecast, placing it at the more realistic level of 13.8 million units.
The report explains that, currently, Samsung does most of its business in Suzhou, China.
The company partnered with Compal Electronics in 2012, in the hopes of relaying a small part of the production to the vendor, but that deal has recently been terminated.
Samsung has no other plans of extending right now.
2012 proved to be a good year for Samsung, notebook wise: the Korean company was named world's seventh-largest notebook vendor.
The brand was especially popular in Latin America. More specifically, Samsung managed to climb to the number 3 spot in Brazil's top of notebook providers. Apparently, the tide is changing now.