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Tuesday 29 May 2018
India smartphone market starts taking off in 2018: Q&A with Prince Yun, Avnet president for Taiwan and South Asia
Many new opportunities and challenges are emerging for the global electronics industries amid the trade spats between the US and China, and it is important that Taiwan's electronics...
Tuesday 29 May 2018
An exclusive interview with Kelly Wu, president & CEO, Clientron
Clientron, a world-leading provider of thin clients and embedded systems, established its industrial PC (IPC) team in 2017, demonstrating its determination to penetrate deep into...
Friday 18 May 2018
Custom IC design made easy with GreenPAK solutions: Q&A with Dialog Semiconductor executive Mark Tyndall
After acquiring Silego Technology, a US supplier of configurable mixed-signal ICs (CMIC), for US$306 million in late 2017, UK-based Dialog Semiconductor has launched new series of...
Friday 11 May 2018
Business transformation: Q&A with Qisda chairman Peter Chen
EMS provider Qisda has made efforts to transform operations by acquiring majority stakes in industrial motherboard and computer maker DFI and POS device maker Partner Tech in 2017,...
Thursday 26 April 2018
AI to be new direction for storage industry: Q&A with Pure Storage VP Robert Lee
Pure Storage has worked with Nvidia and Arista Networks to jointly create AI Ready Infrastructure (AIRI) that is able to assist its clients with demand for AI applications.The company's...
Wednesday 18 April 2018
Ledvance is growth driver: Q&A with MLS president Lawrence Lin
China-based LED packaging service provider MLS expects Germany-based Ledvance - a lamp business which it has acquired from Osram - to become a main growth driver in 2018, during which...
Monday 16 April 2018
AI is the future of the surveillance market: Q&A with Max Yang of GeoVision
GeoVision is a Taiwan-based surveillance solution developer in business for over 20 years. Although not as big as some of the international firms, the company is still one of the...
Tuesday 10 April 2018
Linde ERDC shines a light on new material development
Linde Electronics, a member of The Linde Group, is one of the major global manufacturers of bulk and electronic specialty gases used during the manufacturing of semiconductors, displays,...
Wednesday 28 March 2018
Shaping a new concept of distributorship: An interview with Frederick Fu, president of Avnet Asia Pacific
The global semiconductor industry posted its highest-ever annual sales in 2017. With major technology players all wanting a slice of the Asia Pacific market, the strategies and operations...
Monday 26 March 2018
Building presence in enterprise SSD market: Q&A with Silicon Motion president Wallace Kou
Nasdaq-listed Taiwan-based Silicon Motion Technology is a leading supplier of NAND flash controller chips, long quietly driving the upgrades of the global flash memory sector with...
Wednesday 14 March 2018
ARM-based IPC opportunities: Q&A with Jason Liu, director of Intelligent Solution and System, Avalue
Avalue Technology is one of Taiwan's veteran industrial PC (IPC) players, having been in the sector since 2000. Although it is not as big as some of the first-tier players, Avalue...
Monday 12 March 2018
Bandwidth upgrades, IoT applications bring huge opportunities, says Sercomm CEO
Global demand for broadening network bandwidths is still maintaining substantial growth momentum, particularly bolstered by active deployments of optical fiber transmission networks...
Thursday 8 March 2018
MediaTek gearing up for AI smartphones
MediaTek has introduced its new solution to bring artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to smartphones, and is gearing up for competition in the AI smartphone field.
Tuesday 6 March 2018
Back on the growth track: Q&A with MediaTek president Joe Chen
There were major management changes at MediaTek last year, showing the IC deisgner's intention to regain its growth momentum. The changes included the appointment of Joe Chen as MediaTek...
Thursday 1 March 2018
Global diode supply shortfall to last into 2Q18, says Diodes CEO
The supply shortfall seen in the global diode industry since the beginning of 2017 will last into the second quarter of 2018, with the shortfall mainly being driven by ever-growing...