Lite-On ships 500k slim-type DVD drives a month last quarter

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At DigiTimes this morning, we can read that Lite-On has shipped a staggering 500,000 slim-type DVD drives, the type that is used in notebooks, for every month of the last quarter. Due to these production shipment figures, they have out-produced even Quanta Storage. In fact, going by what we can read in this quote below, it appears Lite-On blew Quanta out of the water.

Quanta Storage is currently the largest maker of slim-type optical disc drives (ODDs) in Taiwan and shipped 300,000 slim-type DVD burners a month last quarter, the sources indicated. Since Quanta Storage obtained Dell's certification for slim-type DVD burners last quarter, the company's monthly shipment volume is expected to increase in the second half of this year, the sources noted.

As OEM prices of slim-type DVD burners had fallen from US$65-70 in the fourth quarter of 2005 to about US$50 last quarter, international brands of notebook PCs have increasingly been adopting slim-type DVD burners to replace slim-type Combo (CD-RW plus DVD-ROM) drives, according to Michael Gong, general manager of the Optical Disc Drive Business Unit of Lite-On IT.

Source: DigiTimes

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