Asia cashes in on Xbox 360 success
-- Posted by XanTium on November 19 00:28 EST
From computing.co.uk:
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Taiwanese electronics manufacturers are reporting record-breaking revenue on production of Microsoft's Xbox 360 games console.
Wistron Corporation, one of the core manufacturers for the Xbox 360, has reported that its October revenue hit a record high of $536m.
Microsoft will spend over $1bn manufacturing Xbox 360 units to be sold in 2005, and a similar amount in the first quarter of 2006 based on analyst estimates and data from Microsoft.
Much of this spending is going into the pockets of a crowd of Taiwanese manufacturers, both large and small. The simpler jobs will mostly be carried out in these companies' Chinese factories, with more advanced work, such as chip manufacture, being handled in Taiwan.
Passive component suppliers, such as Walsin Technology Corporation, have reported record high sales for several months, boosted by production of components like capacitors for the Xbox.
Sunon Group's share price jumped on news that it had won a contract to make millions of CPU fans for the console.
Cable manufacturer Ji Haw industrial, which makes the Xbox 360 power cable, has devoted one of its two factories in Eastern China to production of Xbox parts.
Nearby, another Taiwanese company, Foxlink, is manufacturing key components like the Xbox 360 controller pads and various connectors. Again the company has reported an increase in revenue.
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Asia cashes in on Xbox 360 success
Nov 19 2005, 06:28 AM
