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...Apple also has its iPhones assembled in India at plants operated by rival Taiwanese contract manufacturers Pegatron and Wistron. Additional reporting by Patrick McGee in San Francisco...
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...Wistron subsequently apologised to the workers after finding that they had not been paid correctly or on time, saying it was removing its vice-president for India....
...Wistron, a Taiwanese electronics manufacturer that supplies Apple, is also in talks to invest about $50m....
...Along with rival manufacturers from Taiwan such as Quanta Computer, Pegatron and Wistron, it has led a constant race to make the manufacturing process cheaper, faster and more efficient....
...Asia Apple assemblers Pegatron and Hon Hai Precision Industry, also known as Foxconn, fell as much as 5.7 per cent and 2.6 per cent respectively in Taipei while Wistron slipped 3.7 per cent....
...Wistron, a third Taiwanese electronics manufacturer, already assembles lower-price iPhones in a plant in India....
...Wistron makes the printed circuit boards on which the key electronic components in any device are mounted and connected with each other....
...The latest round of lawsuits, filed in Southern California on Wednesday, drags Foxconn, Pegatron, Wistron and Compal into the deepening row between Qualcomm and Apple over the value of the chipmaker’s intellectual...
...This is good news for ODMs such as Quanta, Wistron and Compal. But traditional server vendors could lose market share in the long run. Whatever happens to volumes, prices only go in one direction....
...Taiwan’s Pegatron Corp, which employs 100,000 people, said on Monday that it is expanding its workforce in mainland China by 30 per cent to keep up with the production of smartphones....
...If you had an unlimited budget, you would not buy the Hudl, which is made by Taiwan’s Wistron....
...Manufacturers like Quanta, and peers like Foxconn, Wistron and Pegatron, have slim margins, and so make money by churning out high volumes of PCs that are then sold by brand-name tech groups....
...Other examples include Acer, which spun off its contract business as Wistron, and Asustek, which split into a branded PC company, and the contract maker Pegatron which is now competing with Foxconn for Apple...
...HP’s computers are assembled by Hon Hai, Quanta, Inventec and Wistron, all Taiwanese companies....
...Foxconn, which serves HP, Dell, Apple, Asustek and Sony, set up facilities in both cities while Compal and Wistron, two other large notebook contract manufacturers, are building factories in both places....
...The LePad, which will launch in the US in July, is being manufactured by Compal and Wistron of Taiwan....
...But other companies looking to expand their TV operations include Taiwanese notebook manufacturer Compal and Wistron, the former contract manufacturing arm of Acer....
...Companies like Compal, Wistron and Hon Hai – relatively unknowns names that brands like HP, Dell and Acer rely on to do the actual manufacturing – have all looked towards TV assembly as the next big driver...
...Wistron, the former contract manufacturing arm of Acer that was spun off in 2000, signalled its interest in the e-reader market when it last month acquired Polymer Vision, a Dutch e-paper company specialising...
...They said Wistron of Taiwan would make several million extra TV sets for Sony this year....
...Acer took a similar step with its spin-off of its Wistron manufacturing operations in 2000....
...At the Taiwanese-based Wistron plant in Ciudad Juárez, rows of plasma screens flicker red, blue and green as workers trussed in disposable gloves and face masks run the sets through a final test before boxing...
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...Quanta, Compal, Wistron and their smaller peers design and assemble most notebook computers, which the leading PC companies sell under their own brands....
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