Letter To Shareholders - Mitac

volume in the world in 2009. Especially, the Asia-Pacific region has already
outnumbered Japan, with mainland Chinese being the No 1 supplier in the Asia-Pacific
region. Therefore, for long-term business development, we plan to explore potential
markets, like China and Asia-Pacific region. As for product strategy, diversified
products in all age groups remain the focus of our development. MiTAC had gained
our R&D capability from all of the ODM digital production and we will expand our
market from the existing American & European markets to the global ones and to
develop more leading- edge products. Besides, we are working on making alliances
with digital services providers in order to open a new audio-video market.
2. Enterprise products
(1)For short-term business plans: Our strategy is to maintain and cooperate with existing
clients at workstations and various types of servers and storages devices in order to
expand our customer base and increase revenues.
(2)For long-term business plans: In the next three years, we will continue the
development and sales for storage devices and servers. On the other hand, we seek
long-term and stable cooperation with clients in the whole food chain, from entry-level
to high-end solutions, single product line and multiple ones. We want to strengthen our
product development capability and speed, product quality and delivery control. Our
aim is to reinforce our role as a major server ODM supplier.
3. Mobile communication product series
(1) Mobile communication products
A. For short-term business plans: We closely observe market and user’s feedback in
order to design the most competitive mobile communications products. We use our
product planning, development, design and production capabilities to provide our
customers high-value services. We will also give clients cheap mapping and points of
interest in order to open different markets.
B. For long-term business plans: We will utilize global distribution, sales models and
service networks to work closely with partners and vendors. MiTAC SYNNEX
Group will be the global channel with highly integrated product planning and
high-value-added products, thus to expand the foundation of major international
client base and to develop a varsity of clients.
(2) Handheld devices
A. Short-term business plan: PND shall remain as the world's most popular navigation
solution in the next few years; MiTAC shall continue its development of competitive
PND products based on market demand, while offering customers high value added
services through innovation and professional product planning, research,
development, design and manufacturing capabilities.
B. Long-term business plan: develop products that are horizontally integrated to the
core GPS navigation technology; e.g. vehicle navigation systems, outdoor navigation,
and cloud computing-based vehicle fleet administration products in association with
communication service providers. Extend client interaction with world renowned
manufacturers and broaden customer variety with highly integrated product planning
and the introduction of high value adding products.
4. Enterprise, channel server/ workstation products:
(1)Short-term business plan: analyze market trends, adopt the latest upstream and
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