Quanta Computer

Quanta Computer, Inc.
Company type	Public
Traded as	TWSE: 2382
Industry	Computer hardware; Electronics
Founded	1988
Headquarters	Taoyuan City, Taiwan 25°2′59.8″N 121°22′30.8″E / 25.049944°N 121.375222°E
Key people	Barry Lam, Founder, CEO
Products	Notebooks, Smartphones, Servers, Digital televisions, and others
Revenue	US$27.8 billion (2014)
Net income	591,000,000 United States dollar (2010)
Number of employees	over 70,000 worldwide
Website	www.quantatw.com

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.,^[2] 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.^{[citation needed]}

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.^[3]

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.^[4] 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.^[5]

It was estimated that Quanta had a 31% worldwide market share of notebook computers in the first quarter of 2008.^[6]

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^ Lander, Mark (25 Mar 2002). "Taiwan Maker of Notebook PC's Thrives Quietly". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 10 November 2012. Retrieved 7 February 2011.
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^ "Quanta remained number one notebook OEM in 1Q08, says DisplaySearch". DigiTimes. 27 June 2008.

[1] "Quanta Computer". Archived from the original on 19 May 2017. Retrieved 16 January 2017.

[2] Lander, Mark (25 Mar 2002). "Taiwan Maker of Notebook PC's Thrives Quietly". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 10 November 2012. Retrieved 7 February 2011.

[3] "QUANTA COMPUTER INC (2382:Taiwan): Company Description - Businessweek". investing.businessweek.com. Archived from the original on May 1, 2013. Retrieved 12 October 2012.

[4] Nystedt, Dan. "One million OLPC laptop orders confirmed". Network World. Archived from the original on 15 May 2011. Retrieved 7 February 2011.

[5] Hachman, Mark (7 April 2011). "Facebook Launches 'Open Compute Initiative' Servers". PC Magazine.

[6] "Quanta remained number one notebook OEM in 1Q08, says DisplaySearch". DigiTimes. 27 June 2008.

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