More and more leading Japanese
DVD drive manufacturers like Sony and Teac have speeded up outsourcing 4x
DVD+RW drives to Taiwan. This trend is a result of the recent steep price
falls (prices for 4x DVD+RW drives have fallen by 40%-50% over the past
three months). According to the article the contract orders came much earlier than expected. Taiwanese companies had
expected that Japanese vendors would start releasing orders to Taiwan in the
first or second quarter of next year:
The Taiwan-based Commercial Times reported that BenQ ADVERTISEMENT
However, both BenQ and Accesstek declined to comment on the According to TSR (Japan), Sony is the world's third largest But Teac and Sony may now find competing with NEC and Pioneer ADVERTISEMENT
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Source: DigiTimes