Quanta Computer
Quanta Computer Incorporated (TWSE: 2382) (Chinese: 廣達電腦; pinyin: Guǎngdá Diànnǎo) is a Taiwan-based manufacturer of notebook computers and other electronic hardware. Its customers include Apple Inc., Dell, Hewlett-Packard Inc., Acer Inc., Alienware, Amazon.com, Cisco, Fujitsu, Gericom, Lenovo, LG, Maxdata, Microsoft, MPC, BlackBerry Ltd, Sharp Corporation, Siemens AG, Sony, Sun Microsystems, Toshiba, Valve, Verizon Wireless, and Vizio.
| Company type | Public |
|---|---|
| TWSE: 2382 | |
| Industry | Computer hardware Electronics |
| Founded | 1988 |
| Headquarters | Taoyuan City, Taiwan 25°2′59.8″N 121°22′30.8″E |
Key people | Barry Lam, Founder, CEO |
| Products | Notebooks, Smartphones, Servers, Digital televisions, and others |
| Revenue | US$27.8 billion (2014) |
| 591,000,000 United States dollar (2010) | |
Number of employees | over 70,000 worldwide |
| Website | www |
Quanta has extended its businesses into enterprise network systems, home entertainment, mobile communication, automotive electronics, and digital home markets. The company also designs, manufactures and markets GPS systems, including handheld GPS, in-car GPS, Bluetooth GPS and GPS with other positioning technologies.
Quanta Computer was announced as the original design manufacturer (ODM) for the XO-1 by the One Laptop per Child project on December 13, 2005, and took an order for one million laptops as of February 16, 2007. In October 2008, it was announced that Acer would phase out Quanta from the production chain, and instead outsource manufacturing of 15 million Aspire One netbooks to Compal Electronics.
In 2011, Quanta designed servers in conjunction with Facebook as part of the Open Compute Project.
It was estimated that Quanta had a 31% worldwide market share of notebook computers in the first quarter of 2008.