Quanta snatches 1 million Dell notebook orders from Compal

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Quanta Computer has recently snatched from its chief competitor, Compal Electronics, a Dell order for 1 million units of a 15.4-inch notebook model! Now that is a ton of notebook orders! Someone in sales over at Compal has some explaining to do.

Quanta is expected to ship 10 million notebooks to Dell next year, retaking the crown from Compal as the US vendor’s biggest notebook supplier, the paper said. Quanta will ship a total of 8.8 million notebooks in the first half of 2006, up 25.7% from the same period of last year, while Compal will ship 5.5 million notebooks in the first half of this year, up 22.2% on-year, according to the paper.

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