IPad Onslaught Sends Taiwanese Laptop Makers to the Cloud: Tech
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The world’s two biggest laptop assemblers are seeking shelter in the cloud as Apple Inc.’s iPad threatens the future of personal computers.
Quanta Computer Inc. and Compal Electronics Inc., the Taiwanese companies that together make half of all portable computers, are turning to servers and the tablets that access them. Revenue from building notebooks for clients such as Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc. at Taoyuan, Taiwan-based Quanta fell last year for the first time since the company listed in 1999 as the U.S. PC market declined for the first time in a decade.