C. Leung

Back-to-school sales and the run-up to Christmas are hot times of the year for people to buy laptop PCs, and hype around Microsoft's Windows Vista and Intel's Santa Rosa laptop chips has given an added spurt to demand this year, said C. C. Leung, vice chairman and president of Quanta Computer, at a news conference Friday in Kuei Shan, Taiwan.

But the OLPC project should be shielded by commitments already made by companies in the supply chain, he said.The special screen used in the laptop could run into supply issues, but even that is backed by a major company that has given delivery assurances, he said.

Back-to-school sales and the run-up to Christmas are hot times of the year for people to buy laptop PCs, and hype around Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Vista and Intel Corp.'s Santa Rosa laptop chips has given an added spurt to demand this year, said C. C. Leung, vice chairman and president of Quanta Computer Inc., at a news conference Friday in Kuei Shan, Taiwan.

But the OLPC project should be shielded by commitments already made by companies in the supply chain, he said.The special screen used in the laptop could run into supply issues, but even that is backed by a major company that has given delivery assurances, he said.

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