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To: Cooters who wrote (81371)	9/24/2000 9:36:53 AM
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Taiwan to dominate in Internet appliances - Quanta --From AOL. See comments on Intel.-- Cooters TAIPEI, Sept 24 (Reuters) - The chairman of notebook computer maker Quanta Computer <2382.TW> has forecast Taiwan will manufacture 80 percent of the world's Internet appliances (IAs) by 2004 to 2005, the Economic Daily said on Sunday. The newspaper quoted Quanta chairman Barry Lin as saying Taiwan "would not just lead, but dominate" production of the simple devices designed to surf the Internet and do nothing else. Lin also restated Quanta's forecast that it would overtake Toshiba <6502.T> to become the world's largest notebook maker this year. "We already have the orders in our hands," he was quoted as telling a business seminar. Quanta manufactures no products under its own brand name and makes computers on behalf of foreign clients. The company has already won contracts from American Online <AOL.N> to make a portable "web pad," and makes the "i-opener," a stripped-down desktop device for getting on the Internet and marketed by Netpliance <NPLI.O>. Taiwan's Commercial Times quoted Lin as saying top microchip firm Intel <INTC.O>, which issued a sales warning on Thursday, was having trouble adjusting to an era when small gagdets with modest microprocessors would dominate popular computing, leaving the U.S. firm and its obsession with faster chips behind. It quoted an unidentified source as saying Quanta would manufacture IBM's <IBM.N> new ThinkPad notebook using the Crusoe microprocessor from Transmeta, a newcomer in the processor market which makes chips with low power requirements. Taiwan manufacturers made nearly half of the world's notebook computers in 1999, and many computer firms have announced plans to diversify into Internet appliances and mobile phones. 00:15 09-24-00

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