Gbh, re: eMachines
If you've already seen this, it may bear revisiting. Emachines is merely the US distributor set up by Trigem, a leading Korean producer of PC's. From the article;
<<Trigem Computer Inc., a leading personal computer maker in Korea, is in charge of
manufacturing in conjunction with emachines. Trigem has been manufacturing on a
24-hour basis for the past five months, but it still is having a hard time catching up
with demand. It appears that the more they make, the more they sell.............
Why is it possible to cut prices so drastically? The major reason for that is a basic
approach to "mass production of a few varieties of products." emachines and Proton,
as well as Sotec, all share major components used for their products such as the
motherboard, memory and hard disk drive. Depending on the product, they are simply
making minor modifications, for example, on CPUs and the design of cases.
Trigem's 1999 OEM sales plan for super low-cost computers calls for more than 2.5 million units in the United States and 250,000 to 300,000 units in Japan. If this comes true, sales shares both in Japan and the United States are expected to bring the company to the fifth rank.>>
nikkeibp.asiabiztech.com |
