Wistron is the former manufacturing arm of Acer, which was spun off in 2000. They make a lot of ODM stuff.
"Wistron Corporation (Chinese: 緯創資通股份有限公司; pinyin: Wěichuàng Zītōng Gǔfèn Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī) is a major original design manufacturer in Taiwan. It was the manufacturing arm of Acer Inc. before being spun off in 2000.
Wistron employs over 60,000 people worldwide.[2] As an ODM (original design manufacturer) Wistron designs and manufactures products for other companies to sell under their own brand name. Wistron focuses on ICT (information and communication technology) products, including notebook PCs, desktop PCs, servers, storage, LCD TVs, and handheld devices. Wistron provides a variety of technology services within the design, manufacturing, and after-sales service functions tailored to meet customers' specific requirements. [3]
In July 2011, Wistron and Microsoft entered into an agreement that offered coverage under Microsoft's exclusive rights portfolio for Wistron products including tablets, mobile phones and other devices running the Chrome OS or Android platform.[4] In September 2011, Wistron signed a patent licensing agreement with Intellectual Ventures.[5]"
""AppliedMicro's hardware platform offers amazing raw performance and workload flexibility and their selection of OpenDCRE will benefit the entire open community, while offering a serious alternative to incumbent, proprietary solutions," says Cole Crawford, co-founder and CEO of Vapor IO."
AMCC's lead in ARM processors, expertise in high-speed telecom chips to tie the data-center together, SDN/NFV virtualization switching, and "ins" with some pretty interesting customers/ODMs could make the situation very interesting very quickly.
