The world’s largest PC outsourcing manufacturers in the past 23 years supplies for the first time earning more than $1 trillion nt ($350 billion).
Although this is located in China’s Taiwan’s enterprise last year more than 5000 million notebook yield, but as with other electronic outsourcing manufacturers, the company also encountered difficulties. China’s rising labor costs, raw materials and rising oil prices and weak dollar are squeezed the company’s profitability, making its net profit last year only 23 million nt $, profit margins for only 1.7%.
As an apple product assembly business, foxconn in the first quarter of fiscal 2011 margins also dropped to 2.6% historic lows, reason is last year’s wages rise and transfer to inland China result of rising costs factory.
The world’s second-largest PC outsourcing manufacturers, said last month RenBao computer for HP, dell, will raise such PC brand enterprise foundry fees to compensate for rising costs.
However, the region to lower cost to put prices may only be transferred and expediency. Although supplies ten years ago had accurately predict to laptops will replace desktop, but the long-term solution will depend on “future star”. The supplies eyes “future star” is cloud computing.
Because of this, supplies to actively foray into data center and server domain, and to IBM, hewlett-packard, dell and challenge from of old enterprise.
Cooperate with Facebook supplies last month was “Open to calculate Project” (Open Compute bought), wants to encourage more innovation, and the design of oneself through public Facebook data center industry to strengthen internal dialogue.
The PC manufacturers also breaking the original role, directly to the Facebook and Google providing server, and not for the HP or dell OEM production. In this way, supplies can earn more profit.
LinBaiLi supplies the chairman, said: “in the laptop market, we have is the greatest, so not much larger development space.” The server is currently in the supplies revenues of approximately 3% to 5% than the end of this year, the company hopes to achieve this one scale of 10%.
Cloud computing has also brought a construction boom of data centers, and investment these projects of companies, including Google, yahoo and Facebook Internet companies of old. Because these technology company has the formidable technical strength, so they usually tend to use their own design, rather than standardized structure.
Although this a boom scale are difficult to quantify, but Microsoft data center study general manager cristian juliano belletti (Christian Belady) estimates that by 2020, the national data center construction revenues will reach $18 billion, up $78 billion global income.
Although foxconn, inventec and Singapore flextronics are in for other enterprise OEM production server, but can’t challenge large multinational brands. While the Asian producers in the low cost, high quality hardware field unmatched, but server usually need to match specific software, and this is precisely the lack of skills outsourcing manufacturers.
However, over the past two years but supplies began quietly enhance its ability. The company last month the cooperation with Facebook, was the first public evidence. Supplies will also for Facebook located in Oregon, USA and north Carolina data center supply server.
So far, HP and dell didn’t seem to worry too much about the supplies and Facebook “open computing project”. Dell marketing director Andrew ShuErKe (to Drew Schulke of Facebook, said open computing project won’t hurt the dell’s business, because the company’s service income than hardware.
HP also says, cloud computing services market, market scale explosive growth large enough, so no need to worry about hewlett-packard supplies. “We think this is a big industry, there are enough opportunities to let everybody common development.” The company says.
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