After painful lessons, the palmtop computer alliance mapped out by the Computer and Communications Research Laboratories last year made a major shift in its structure. First the number of companies was greatly reduced. At present there are only nine. Moreover, all the technical work, from materials purchasing to the design and quality control of the main board to the certification of the keyboards, is to be divided up among the participating firms.
經過慘痛教訓，去年七月由電通所企劃的掌上型電腦聯盟，在型態上就作了大幅改變，首先是聯盟廠商數大減﹘﹘目前只有九家廠商，而且從材料採購、主機板的設計到鍵盤確認等各項技術，都由聯盟廠商分工完成，電通所只負責企劃及主要規格的選定。