Compal Electronics saw non-notebook revenue proportion rise from 23% in 2014 to 28% in 2015 and aims to increase it to 35% in 2016, Digitimes quoted Ray Chen, company president, as saying during a shareholders’ meeting on June 24.
While market research firms forecast that global demand for notebooks and tablets in 2016 will decrease 10% on year, Compal expects the company’s total shipments for all of its product lines to grow 20%.
In order to diversify business operations, Compal has stepped into development of servers, automotive electronics, smart home devices, IoT vertical solutions, smart medical and healthcare devices, industrial PCs.