Taiwan-based PC makers Quanta Computer and Wistron, and telecom carrier Taiwan Mobile have jointly announced cooperation over cloud computing service with the two PC makers to also provide hardware structure.

In addition to Taiwan Mobile, Quanta is also in contact with telecom carriers Singapore Telecommunications and China Mobile for cloud computing cooperation, while Wistron plans to finish establishing the second mobile datacenter in Beijing, China by the end of October.

Wistron currently has about 1,000 software engineers with 80 of them are working for cloud computing business and the business unit is now mainly focus on cloud computing for education and medical industries.

Although the revenue contribution from the cloud computing business will be weak in 2011, as the market grows, the contribution is expected to reach NT$10 billion (US$344.59 million) after three years. As for Quanta, since the company has already cut into the supply chain of Facebook, Google, and Amazon, the revenue contribution from the server business will increase from 3-5% in 2010 to 5-10% in 2011 and break NT$100 billion.

Source:digitimes