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The vast majority of laptops on the market are manufactured by a small handful of Taiwan-based original design manufacturers (ODM), although their production bases are located mostly in mainland China. Quanta Computer pioneered the contract manufacturing of laptops in 1988. By 1990, Taiwanese companies manufactured 11% of the world's laptops.
Sold computer division to AST Research; former parent company of Radio Shack: Tangerine Computer Systems — United Kingdom: 1979: 1987: Bankruptcy: Télémécanique — France: 1968: 1976: Computer division merged with CII's minicomputer division to become Société européenne de mini-informatique et systèmes (SEMS) Tava Corporation ...
Clevo was founded in 1983 as Nan Tan Computer (NTC). [ 1 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In 1987, the company established its laptop computer business, with production starting in 1990. [ 8 ] In 1992, NTC set up Clevo, a U.S. subsidiary which would distribute its laptops in the country.
Arm Ltd. (sells designs only) Amazon (AWS Graviton is ARM-based); Apple Inc. (ARM-based CPUs) Broadcom Inc. (ARM-based, e.g. for Raspberry Pi) Fujitsu (its ARM-based CPU used in top supercomputer, still also sells its SPARC-based servers)
In November 2021, Time magazine listed the Framework Laptop on their list of the 100 Best Inventions of 2021. [163] In March 2022, Fast Company listed the Framework Laptop on their list of the Most Innovative Companies of 2022. [164] In October 2023, Time magazine listed the Framework Laptop 16 on their list of the 200 Best Inventions of 2023 ...
ThinkPad is a line of business-oriented laptop and tablet computers produced since 1992. The early models were designed, created and manufactured by International Business Machines (IBM) until it sold its PC business to Lenovo in 2005; since 2007, all new ThinkPad models have been branded Lenovo instead [5] and the Chinese manufacturer has continued to develop and sell ThinkPads to the present ...
M17x (discontinued) – Introduced in 2009, it is the first laptop released by Alienware after the company was bought by Dell. The name and some of the design is based on the Alienware 17-inch laptop, the Alienware M17. M17x-R2 (discontinued) – 2010 revision of the M17x, adding support for Intel i5 and i7 processors, dual MXM 3.0B graphic cards.
Compal was founded in June 1984 [1] as a computer peripherals supplier. [9] It went public in April 1990. [1] In September 2011, Compal announced it would form a joint venture with Lenovo to make laptops in China. [10] The venture was expected to start producing laptops by the end of 2012.