Thanks to an influx of contract orders from HP, Toshiba, Acer and Fujitsu Siemens, Inventec last year saw its notebook PC shipment double to 15 million units from 7 million units shipped a year earlier, enjoying the strongest shipment growth among the world's top four notebook PC suppliers in the year.

After having terminated cooperation with Dell for 14 years, the firm has recently returned to the world's second-largest PC brand's supply chain, manufacturing the newest commercial notebook PCs and scheduled to start delivery in the second quarter of the year. With the new contract orders, Lee is hence quite confident of attaining a robust growth rate of 15-20% in annual shipment.

However, Lee noted, Inventec will manage to improve its gross profit rates by upgrading operating efficiency and lowering costs this year, after witnessing the rate shrink to 2.62% in the third quarter of last year and posting a shining quarterly shipment of 5 million notebook PCs.

On the other hand, Inventec will also pay more attention to the increasingly popular Netbook PCs. At the moment, the firm has HP of the U.S. and Kojinsha of Japan on its Netbook PC client list, and is very likely to add new ones in the near future, according to Lee.