Apple has hired Taiwanese contract manufacturer to produce one million iMacs with built-in 15in LCD screens, the United Daily News, a Chinese language newspaper, has reported.
The contract appears to confirm the claim made earlier this week by Morgan Stanley analysts that Apple is about to launch its long-awaited and much-rumoured next-generation iMac.
The Morgan Stanley report, sent to Apple investors, claimed a contract signed by Apple for LCD machines was a sign that a major revision to the iMac was on the way. It now seems likely that the contract was signed with Quanta.
Certainly the deal the Taiwanese supplier has entered into has been described as the company's first non-notebook order. Quanta specialises in portable systems and in has in the past produced PowerBooks for Apple. It also makes notebooks for Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Compaq, IBM and Gateway. With the iMac order, Apple will become Quanta's third biggest customer.
According to the UDN story, Quanta will supply one million iMacs at a rate of 100,000 a month. The latter figure matches the one quoted in the Morgan Stanley report. Shipments will begin during the first quarter of next year.
News source: The Register - Apple signs Quanta to build next-generation iMac
The contract appears to confirm the claim made earlier this week by Morgan Stanley analysts that Apple is about to launch its long-awaited and much-rumoured next-generation iMac.
The Morgan Stanley report, sent to Apple investors, claimed a contract signed by Apple for LCD machines was a sign that a major revision to the iMac was on the way. It now seems likely that the contract was signed with Quanta.
Certainly the deal the Taiwanese supplier has entered into has been described as the company's first non-notebook order. Quanta specialises in portable systems and in has in the past produced PowerBooks for Apple. It also makes notebooks for Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Compaq, IBM and Gateway. With the iMac order, Apple will become Quanta's third biggest customer.
According to the UDN story, Quanta will supply one million iMacs at a rate of 100,000 a month. The latter figure matches the one quoted in the Morgan Stanley report. Shipments will begin during the first quarter of next year.
News source: The Register - Apple signs Quanta to build next-generation iMac
Sun has completed about 75 percent of the layoffs it announced in early October and plans to have about 40,000 employees by the end of the quarter, down from 43,000. As a result of the job cuts and facility reductions, Sun expects to take a $500 million charge, Lehman said.
To help spur sales, Sun has been working to push its 900MHz UltraSparc III processors across its entire hardware line and announced that the Sun Fire 280R entry-level server will now have the speedier chips. Sun's newest high-end and midrange servers already have the 900MHz chips.
The Sun Fire 280R is shipping immediately with two 900MHz chips, at a starting price of $22,995 with 2GB of memory and two 36GB internal disks. A similar product with 750MHz UltraSparc IIIs starts at $17,995, according to information on Sun's Web site.
Palo Alto, Calif.-based Sun also said it plans to introduce some new storage technology in January that will come out of tools it acquired through its purchase of HighGround Systems.in April. Sun has previously said the new offerings would involve virtual storage management and next-generation file system technology.
News source: Info World - Sun says sales improving, speeds up entry-level server
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