Tuesday, August 5, 2003
Suzhou becomes world's leading notebook PC production base
Press Trust of India Beijing, August 5
Suzhou, a famous scenic city in east China, has become the biggest laptop computer production centre in the world with an annual output close to 10 million units, about a quarter of the world's total, the state media reported on Tuesday.
The top nine computer companies in Taiwan have set up factories in Suzhou, including Uniwell Compute Corp, Acer Inc and Mitac International Corp. Uniwell's overall production capacity in Suzhou, about 100 km from Shanghai in the east, is close to one million units per year thanks to the recent operation of a new workshop in the Suzhou Industrial Park.
The company said its annual capacity will be raised to five million units after all its factory buildings and production lines in Suzhou become operational.
Samsung Electronics Co of South Korea also plans to locate its notebook computer production line in Suzhou, with a target output of half a million units a year.
The information industry has become the number one industrial sector of the city, where investment from some 700 Taiwanese firms accounts for 40 per cent of the industry's total.
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