List of Laptop ODMs from the 1980s-2000s

Around circa: 1995-2001

Sold by: ARM Computer, Brick/Ergo, Cyberstar, DTK, Hyperdata, Jetta, Maxtech, Medion Computer, Micron, NEC, Olidata, Roverbook, Trogon, others

FCC Grantee Code: DK4

Alpha-Top Corporation was a division of GVC Corporation, who were a manufacturer of many computer parts including modems, although I don't think they were related to Global Village Communication, despite the name similarity. I can't find much info on GVC though, so I could be wrong?

Alpha-Top produced the "Green" series of laptops, which all followed the model scheme of "Green" followed by three numbers (example being GREEN753). These laptops were sold to a very large number of brands. At one point, they were also manufacturing the iBook for Apple, although I'm not which one they produced.

Following some financial issues at GVC, Alpha-Top was sold to Elitegroup Computer Systems in August 2001. ECS continued the Green series for a few years after, before eventually dropping the Green name.

Around circa: 1992-1997

Sold by: Epson, WinBook, others

FCC Grantee Code: JRU

ASE made the WinBook XP and XP5, the Epson ActionNote 500C, and a whole lot of others.

Around circa: Late 80s-2000

Sold by: TBA

FCC Grantee Code: E8H

Chicony manufactured laptops for many, many brands during the 1990s. The exited the business around the turn of the 21st century, but they still do business to this day, mainly manufacturing computer peripherals like keyboards and mice.

Around circa: 1990-Present

Sold by: TBA

FCC Grantee Codes: FMA, L4P, U9M

Clevo was originally founded in the early 1980s as Nan Tan Computer Co, and for several years they manufactured computer keyboards. They released their first laptops in 1990, and continue up to this day. During the 1990s, they started going by Kapok and also Clevo, then finally completely rebranded as Clevo around 1997.

FMA is their FCC code under the Nan Tan name, L4P is under the Kapok name, and U9M is under the Clevo name. However, there is a sizable gap between where listings on the Kapok code end and the Clevo code begin, and the Clevo code has also been unused since 2008, so I think I may be missing one or more FCC code for them.

Around circa: Early 90s-present

Sold by: AST, DEC, Dell, Targa, Ultra, WinBook, others

FCC Grantee Code: IIR

Compal has been making laptops for a long time and is still in the business to this day. They made laptops for many major brands.

FCC IDs on the bottom of their laptops lead back to Full Power Investment Co LTD, which may have been the name of their laptop divison. Make no mistake, Full Power is Compal.

Around circa: 2000s?-present

Sold by: WinBook, others

FCC Grantee Codes: H9N, HDQ, MD8, SA6, WL6

ECS made laptops for a number of brands during the 2000s, and they still make them today. They purchased Alpha-Top and Uniwill.

Around circa: mid 90s-2010??

Sold by: Gericom, WinBook, others

FCC Grantee Code: EUN, JVF

FIC entered the laptop business around 1996/1997 and I'm not quite sure when they left it. The last record of a laptop I can find in their FCC is from 2010, but I haven't looked into their archived website from that time yet.

Around circa: 1990s

Sold by: TBA

FCC Grantee Code: ID4

Flextronics, also known as Arima, manufactured laptops for Ergo, AMS, Austin/IPC, UniSys, and others.

Around circa: Late 80s-Mid 90s

Sold by: WinBook, others

FCC Grantee Code: IQ7

Jetta was a very small ODM, and weren't active as one for very long. The company remained active and sold laptops through 2016, but starting in the mid 90s, they ceased making their own and instead became a distributor, selling laptops from other companies. During their short time as an ODM, they made the original WinBooks, and some other stuff.

Around circa: 1990s-???

Sold by: TBA

FCC Grantee Code: DGI

Inventec's biggest acomplishment during the 1990s that I know of is that they manufactured the LTE 5000 Series for Compaq. They did also sell to other brands though, I think.

Clevo under an earlier name. See Clevo above.

Around circa: 1990s-???

Sold by: Jetta, WinBook, others

FCC Grantee Code: EJH

Mitac made many laptops for many companies. Ones I've seen usually had Mitac's model number left on the bottom label, usually in one of the corners of the label, and always four numbers (Ex: 5033, 8080, 8081, etc). This is one way of identifying them, as the ones I've seen don't have the FCC ID listed.

Clevo under an earlier name. See Clevo above.

Around circa: 1990s-Present

Sold by: Apple, AST, WinBook, others

FCC Grantee Code: HFS

Quanta is still around today and they're now huge. They weren't as large in the 1990s, but still made laptops for many people. They manufactured the first Dell Latitudes, some AST laptops, the WinBook XP5 Pro and FX, and they also manufactured the PowerBook 1400 for Apple.

Around circa: 1990-1997

Sold by: Themselves, MPC, Royal

FCC Grantee Code: J75

Sunrex manufactured various often unique laptops from 1990 through 1997. Sunrex themselves sold their laptops as SunRace (their former name), HyperData, and InnovACE. They also sold to OEMs, including MPC Technologies (CD-Book), and Royal Computer.

Around circa: 1990-???

Sold by: Themselves, Sharp, WinBook, others

FCC Grantee Code: FKG

Many Twinhead laptops are branded by Twinhead themselves, but they sold to other companies as well.

Around circa: ???-2006

Sold By: TBA

FCC Grantee Code: P3B, SAZ

I don't know anything about them at the moment. ECS bought them out in 2006.

Around circa: 1990-1994

Sold by: CTX, MPC Technologies, others

FCC Grantee Code: HLO

Veridata was a smaller ODM around during the early 90s. In 1994, they were bought out by CTX International, where they then made their EzBook line. They also did sell to to a couple of other companies under CTX's ownership. The CTX EzBook 500 Series was sold by the short-lived MPC Technologies as their 700 Series.