ODMs solidify domination of mobile-PC manufacturing.EL SEGUNDO El Segundo (ĕl sēgŭn`dō), industrial city (1990 pop. 15,223), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1917. Its products include navigation and computer systems, aircraft parts, office machines, telephone apparatus, and , CA -- Illustrating the increasing domination of Asian producers in the global mobile-PC market, a whopping 82.6% of notebook computers A laptop computer that weighs in a range from five to seven pounds. The term originated when laptops were routinely more than 10 pounds, and those that became lighter were placed in a special "notebook" category. In practice, notebook computer and laptop computer are synonymous. in 2005 were manufactured by contract manufacturers mainly in the Greater Shanghai Shanghai (shăng`hī`, shäng`hī`), city (1994 est. pop. 12,980,000), in, but independent of, Jiangsu prov., E China, on the Huangpu (Whangpoo) River where it flows into the Chang (Yangtze) estuary. area, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. research firm iSuppli Corp. (isuppli.com). Worldwide mobile PC production in 2005 amounted to 61.9 million units, and will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 17.9% to reach 141.4 million units in 2010, iSuppli predicts. In 2005, 82.6% of this production, or 51.2 million units, was out-sourced by PC OEMs to contract manufacturers. By 2010, the portion of outsourced PC production will rise to 92.5%, or 130.8 million units. |
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