Manufacturing & Pricing

Smartphone Commoditization Generates Bitter Opportunities for EMS/ODM 
Global OEM Manufacturing and Design Tracker - Wireless - H1 2013 
Smartphones, with their reduced costs and increasing popularity, further gained momentum and dictated the wireless handset industry in 2012 across a wide range of value chain developments, including OEMs’ shifts in their product focuses, internal deployments, and outsourcing considerations, as well as EMS/ODM companies’ challenges with idle capacity as a result of reduced programs from the OEMs, increased R&D requirements due to multiple platforms, rising labor costs in China and so on...
Key Issues
  • Who designs for an OEM? What roles do these design houses play in an OEM’s product development process?   Their locations and capabilities?
  • Who builds for an OEM?  Where do these contract manufacturers build? What are the share splits of these contract manufacturers for an OEM?
  • What are the key outsourcing strategies of leading OEMs? 
  • How do these outsourcing strategies dictate the design and manufacturing relationships across the supply chain? What are the outsourcing trends?
  • How might the evolution of contract manufacturers impact OEMs and component suppliers?
      Applicable To
      • Component Suppliers
      • OEMs
      • EMS Providers
      • ODMs
      • Independent Design Houses
      • Consultants
      • Financial Analysts
      Forecast
      • Frequency
        • Annual Update
        • 5-Year Period
      • Measures
        • Units
        • Percentages
      • Sectors Covered
        • OEM
        • EMS
        • ODM

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