“Market demand for lithium-polymer batteries, which are used mainly in products such as tablet PCs or notebooks with ultra-thin designs, is expected to increase significantly as ultra-thin designs are estimated by Intel to be adopted into 40% of consumer notebooks at the end of 2012,” Aaron Lee and Joseph Tsai report for DigiTimes.
“However, since Apple already booked up most of the available lithium-polymer battery capacity in the IT market, players such as Hewlett-Packard and Acer are currently searching aggressively for new supply sources, according to sources from battery players,” Lee and Tsai report.
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“Apple is currently the only PC brand that largely adopts lithium-polymer batteries for its products, while HP, Acer and Asustek only have a small amount of ultra-thin models using the battery due to low availability because of limited production capacity and expensive price,” Lee and Tsai report.
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