IPad Onslaught Sends Taiwanese Laptop Makers to the Cloud

The world’s two biggest laptopassemblers are seeking shelter in the cloud as Apple Inc. (AAPL) (AAPL)’s iPadthreatens the future of personal computers. Quanta Computer Inc. (2382) and Compal Electronics Inc. (2324), theTaiwanese companies that together make half of all portablecomputers, are turning to servers and the tablets that accessthem. Revenue from building notebooks for clients such asHewlett-Packard co. (HPQ) (HPQ) and Dell Inc. (DELL) (DELL) at Taoyuan, Taiwan-basedQuanta fell last year for the first time since the companylisted in 1999 as the U.S. PC market declined for the first timein a decade. Sales of the iPad, cheaper and lighter than... Read full post here