Quanta Computer

Quanta Computer Incorporated (Chinese: 廣達電腦; pinyin: Guǎngdá Diànnǎo) is a Taiwanese contract manufacturer of electronic hardware. Quanta's business extends to enterprise network systems, home entertainment, mobile communication, automotive electronics, and digital home markets. The company also designs, manufactures and markets GPS systems, including handheld GPS, in-car GPS, Bluetooth GPS and GPS with other positioning technologies. Quanta Computer was announced as the original design manufacturer (ODM) for the XO-1 by the One Laptop per Child project on December 13, 2005, and took an order for one million laptops as of February 16, 2007. In October 2008, it was announced that Acer would phase out Quanta from the production chain, and instead outsource manufacturing of 15 million Aspire One netbooks to Compal Electronics. In 2011, Quanta designed servers in conjunction with Facebook as part of the Open Compute Project. It was estimated that notebook computers Quanta had manufactured held a 31% worldwide market share in the first quarter of 2008.