SHIPMENTS IN THE 1ST QUARTER HITS AN ALL TIME HIGH

Regardless of the US sub-prime credit crisis, Taiwan-based laptop makers still enjoyed consignments expansion in the 1st quarter of 2008. Of the top-4 producers, Quanta Computer had consignments of 8 million units, Compal Electronics with an overall of 6.1 million, Wistron managed a shipment value of 4.3 million and Inventec scraped home consignments that are worth 3 million. Together with