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HDI board sales fall
LOWER THAN EXPECTED DEMAND for ultra-thin notebooks has left PCB suppliers high and dry.
Fourth-quarter shipments of HDI boards used in ultra-thin notebooks are expected to go lower than a belly of a flatworm that has fallen to the bottom of a coal mine.
Worldwide shipments of ultra-thin notebooks have been estimated to be just six million units in 2009.
According to Digitimes, Taiwan's notebook PCB makers earlier this year all geared up for the ultra-thin notebook markets and aggressively expanded their capacity for HDI boards used in them.
The biggest supplier HannStar Board shipped only 880,000 HDI boards in the first three quarters, with 510,000 of those having been shipped in the third quarter.
HannStar Board, Dynamic Electronics and Tripod Technology all did the same thing and are tearing their hair and crying.
Positioned between netbooks and notebooks, ultra-thin notebooks are pleasing no one, apparently. µ
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Maybe because they charge the earth for these notebooks, and you get the lightness freom netbooks, with 80% of what you need to do , all the full power of notebooks, without breaking the banks with a normal sized notebook.
The reason they are not selling is that they are no longer the only game in town,
is that people want a big screen and a small laptop. I think the real question is whether we'll get bendy screens first(screens that roll or bend out when in use and snap back later) or wearable contacts that can generate images like you're looking at a computer.
I'm betting on the bendy screens.
Wanted: mini-projector on back of laptop.
Would you use or buy one for your laptop?
I think that if they made a laptop with a potenitally larger screen than the case size then it would be a major selling point. How do you make the screen larger with existing tech? Projector.
Perhaps include a simple foldup projector screen.
Or have a screen that can unfold?
Back on topic, I think ultra light laptops are expensive and we are in a global recession. In 24 months that market will be better.