Quanta Computer

Not to be confused with Quantum Computer.
Not to be confused with Quanta Services or Quanta Technology.
Quanta Computer, Inc.
Company typePublic
TWSE: 2382
IndustryComputer hardware
Electronics
Founded1988; 36 years ago (1988)
HeadquartersTaoyuan City, Taiwan 25°2′59.8″N 121°22′30.8″E / 25.049944°N 121.375222°E / 25.049944; 121.375222
Key people
Barry Lam, Founder, CEO
ProductsNotebooks, Smartphones, Servers, Digital televisions, and others
RevenueDecrease US$34.860 billion (2023)[1]
Increase US$1.274 billion (2023)[1]
Total assetsUS$22.518 billion (2023)[1]
Number of employees
56,708 (2023)[1]
Websitewww.quantatw.com
Quanta Computer Building Gate in Hwa Ya Technology Park

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 Research title at COSCUP

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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  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.