Quanta has made 65 acquisitions in three years while expanding revenues and earnings at triple-digit rates.
Raleigh, NC-based Quanta Technology, identified at least one valid aspect of this cynical analogy.
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The site reports the test mule was made for Apple by Quanta Computer.
The laundry list includes Samsung, HTC, Acer, Onkyo, Velocity Micro, ViewSonic and now Quanta.
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Apple said that similar inspectations will take place at Quanta and Pegatron facilities this spring.
Dell and Quanta are rumored to be cooking up a smart phone together.
Under the agreement, Quanta will pay Microsoft royalties for each Android or Chrome OS powered device that it sells.
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It seems that whatever Quanta is moving lately is keeping their facility packed.
"Without applications, the device itself means nothing, " said Barry Lam, chairman of the contract laptop manufacturer Quanta Computer Inc.
Quanta employees are a little more talkative when asked about the iPhone as they leave work--but not much more helpful.
At about the same time, Quanta suggested a locking mechanism for the laptop that designers thought was not child-friendly or durable enough.
Quanta, along with Hon Hai Precision Industry, is one of two contract manufacturers believed to be stamping out iPhones on Apple's behalf.
But last summer, fed up with the 25-hour train trip to see his family, Mr. Zhang moved to Chongqing and joined Quanta.
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He saw that there was an analogy between the radiation in the container and a gas: The quanta, he realized, behaved like gas particles.
The majority of analysts (92.9%) rate Quanta Services as a buy.
The majority of analysts (78.6%) rate Quanta Services as a buy.
Quanta's employees are working overtime as Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs puts the final touches on his June 9 keynote at the company's annual developer conference.
Production systems from Quanta Computer and Tyan are expected to be available through Avnet Electronics Marketing, Penguin Computing and other system integrators before the end of Q1.
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The plain brown boxes could contain almost anything, of course: Apple's mysterious new tablet computers, new Apple notebooks, even a product for one of Quanta's other customers.
Quanta Services is a service provider for the broadband era.
The Quanta assembled Apple netbook rumor that kicked off in March with a Commercial Times report calling for a Wintek-supplied touchscreen has returned... with a fever.
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During one 20-minute stretch alone, three semi trucks from FedEx Freight and a smaller truck from Advanced Logistics trundled around to the back of a distribution center owned by Quanta.
Quanta already builds tablet computers for RIM and Sony.
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And while the brain may not be overloaded by 34 gigabytes of brute information a day, it appears that too many of these mental quanta are the equivalent of empty calories.
No, it won't be July, but it's looking like you won't have to wait until Q4 either to hear the production line at Quanta begin to crank out OLPC XOs en masse.
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Inside Quanta's building, workers weren't answering many questions.
ImportGenius.com found that in May, 19 shipments weighing between 3, 700 and 6, 500 kilograms each (roughly the weight of two vans), moved through the Port of Oakland, linked to a Quanta distribution center in Fremont, Calif.
Quanta's employees are working overtime as Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) Chief Executive Steve Jobs puts the final touches on his June 9 keynote at the company's annual developer conference.
Even though Quanta makes laptops for PC heavyweights like Dell, HP, and IBM, that doesn't necessarily mean that they'll want to implement Quanta's integration technology (to say nothing of the countless mobile device manufacturers that would have to get behind this).
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According to the China Post, Quanta "will start production of low-cost machines for the One Laptop per Child project in September after a nine-month delay, " and interestingly, it even cites the recent hardware alterations as a culprit for the latest hangup.
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