Parts of a Laptop

The parts of a laptop come from as few manufacturers as the laptops themselves. These are world-wide market shares.

Here is who makes motherboards, the heart of your computer and their chipsets, the hearts of the mother boards.

• Asus (ASUSTek Computer Inc.) 37.2%
• Gigabyte (Giga-Byte Technology Co., LTD.) 19.2%
• MSI (Micro-star International Co. LTD.) 8.5%
• Abit (Universal ABIT Co., LTD.) 5.7%
• DFI (DFI Inc. or Diamond Flower Inc.) 4 %
• Total 74.6%

Intel Processors

• Intel 83.3%
• Nvidia 9.5%
• Total 92.8%

AMD Processors

• Nvidia 67.2%
• ATI, (AMD) 18.5%
• VIA 11.7%
• Total 97.4%

The hard drives that store your files.

• Seagate 34.6%
• Western Digital 21.5%
• Hitachi GST 17.2%
• Samsung 11.0%
• Toshiba 07.3%
• Fujitsu 07.1%
• Total 98.7%

The RAM (memory) chips that you need to run anything.

• Samsung 28.4%
• Hynex Semiconductor 20.7%
• Qimondo 13.5%
• Elpida 12.1%
• Micron 10.4%
• Total 85.1%

The Graphics Processors that send what you see to the screen.

• Intel 47.8%
• Nvidia 30.7%
• AMD (ATI) 19.3%
• Total 97.8%

As you can see almost every part of of a laptop comes from a very limited number of manufacturers.

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