Wednesday, June 5, 2002
Seems China is becoming the PDA manufacturing capital
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "ARTICLE" @ 04:50 AM
http://www.taipeitimes.com/news/2002/06/05/story/0000139085
"Companies like Compal Electronics Inc and Mitac International Corp, traditional makers of notebook PCs, cellphones and PDAs, are adding the latest functions to their handhelds, including connections transforming them into phones, Wireless-LAN and 56k modems for Internet access, and other gadgets consumers are looking for -- and they are doing it at the lowest possible cost. Both companies produce PDAs in China, with designing and engineering in Taiwan. Compaq Computer Corp, now taken over by Hewlett-Packard Co, saw the writing on the wall years ago and hired High Tech Computer Corp, a Taiwanese PDA manufacturer, to make its popular iPaq machines. High Tech also leverages the Taiwan-China tech connection to design and manufacture its products."
The point of course is lower prices, and the focus of PDA's at the Computex Taipei 2002 show this year seems to be Pocket PC's.
Are we that much closer to a $300 Pocket PC? One with 32MB of RAM, color and a 200MHz processor?
"Companies like Compal Electronics Inc and Mitac International Corp, traditional makers of notebook PCs, cellphones and PDAs, are adding the latest functions to their handhelds, including connections transforming them into phones, Wireless-LAN and 56k modems for Internet access, and other gadgets consumers are looking for -- and they are doing it at the lowest possible cost. Both companies produce PDAs in China, with designing and engineering in Taiwan. Compaq Computer Corp, now taken over by Hewlett-Packard Co, saw the writing on the wall years ago and hired High Tech Computer Corp, a Taiwanese PDA manufacturer, to make its popular iPaq machines. High Tech also leverages the Taiwan-China tech connection to design and manufacture its products."
The point of course is lower prices, and the focus of PDA's at the Computex Taipei 2002 show this year seems to be Pocket PC's.
Are we that much closer to a $300 Pocket PC? One with 32MB of RAM, color and a 200MHz processor?
