Pegatron also has been willing to accept thinner profits as it courts Apple's business, analysts said.
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But with its growing importance as an Apple supplier, Pegatron will likely also face growing scrutiny.
WSJ: Apple Shifts Supply Chain Away From Foxconn to Pegatron
Asustek spun off its contract manufacturing business in 2010 into Pegatron under pressure from clients.
WSJ: Apple Shifts Supply Chain Away From Foxconn to Pegatron
Apple said that similar inspectations will take place at Quanta and Pegatron facilities this spring.
Ballmer and Asdourian briefly showed off Windows-running tablet computers from HP, Pegatron and Asus.
Pegatron Senior Vice President Andy Tsai said that in 1999, the company he founded, Alpha-Top Technology Corp.
WSJ: Apple Shifts Supply Chain Away From Foxconn to Pegatron
The model that has CDMA capability, used by Verizon Wireless, is being manufactured by Pegatron Technology Corp.
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She expects Pegatron to make the majority of iPad Minis sold this year, as well as the majority of the coming less-costly iPhone.
WSJ: Apple Shifts Supply Chain Away From Foxconn to Pegatron
More than half of Pegatron's revenue in its consumer-electronics and communications businesses this year will be from Apple, said KGI Securities analyst Angela Hsiang.
WSJ: Apple Shifts Supply Chain Away From Foxconn to Pegatron
As with other contract manufacturers, Pegatron's success is based largely on secrecy and tact as it juggles production of competing products from companies such as Apple, Microsoft Corp.
WSJ: Apple Shifts Supply Chain Away From Foxconn to Pegatron
It's also stated that the world's first CDMA iPhone will be manufactured by Pegatron Technology, which we caught just last week dabbling in some of NVIDIA's Tegra 2-based wares.
While Pegatron migh seem to be a newcomer on the surface, the Taipei-based company's Apple ties run deep, with its earlier incarnation packaging Apple computers by candlelight more than a decade ago.
WSJ: Apple Shifts Supply Chain Away From Foxconn to Pegatron
Hopefully that won't happen this time, now that the company has paired with OEM panel-makers Pegatron and Hisense, and is now showing off its technology in UltraHD 4k.
Pegatron began making iPad Minis last year, but some people familiar with the situation said low yield rates meant volume was lower than originally planned and Foxconn ended up taking on the bulk of the production.
WSJ: Apple Shifts Supply Chain Away From Foxconn to Pegatron
If all goes well, Pegatron could begin mass production of the CDMA iPhone (exact model not disclosed) this September, so it's hard to say if Sprint or Verizon would have access before the all-too-lucrative holiday season.
Although Pegatron briefly caught the public eye in 2011 due to a factory explosion that injured dozens of workers, the smaller company has largely escaped the laserlike spotlight that has forced Foxconn to increase wages and make changes to its labor practices.
WSJ: Apple Shifts Supply Chain Away From Foxconn to Pegatron
Several firms that had been Asian ODMs Acer and ASUS, in particular spun off their manufacturing arms Wistron and Pegatron, respectively and morphed their companies into strong brands, buying their manufacturing in the contract marketplace rather than doing it themselves.
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