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Thursday 24 February 2011
Emerging markets to drive China foundries' growth: Q&A with Digitimes Research analyst Nobunaga Chai
China's foundries may not be able to compete head-to-head against the industry's global top-three players in the most advanced process technologies, but their opportunities lie elsewhere...
Wednesday 23 February 2011
USB 3.0 interface to become mainstream sooner or later: Q&A with Dan Harmon, interface product marketing manager, Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments (TI) is actively venturing into the USB 3.0 interface market for notebooks, desktops and smartphones as rival Renesas Electronics is still thriving in the segment...
Monday 14 February 2011
China aiming at balanced development: Q&A with Digitimes Research analyst Joanne Chien
The 12th Five-Year Plan that China is implementing next month has a very different focus than those in the past, namely it is aiming at a more balanced development of the country...
Wednesday 19 January 2011
Touch panel market to have CAGR of 18.3% from 2009-2013: Q&A with Digitimes Research analyst Jason Yang
The touch panel market has been expanding fast since the Apple iPhone launch captivated the world with its touchscreen magic. According to Digitimes Research analyst, Jason Yang -...
Wednesday 29 December 2010
China may see LCD panel oversupply in 2H12: Q&A with Digitimes Research senior analyst Tony Huang
Local and foreign players are scrambling to build next-generation large-size TFT LCD panel fabs in China, which is expected to become the largest LCD TV market in the world in 2011...
Friday 24 December 2010
NTT docomo recaptures Japanese mobile market with support of Taiwanese IT vendors and a flexible Wi-Fi strategy, says NTTBP president Tadao Kobayashi
Mobile communications technology is a constantly evolving field. Rather than always trying to keep up with the latest developments, sometimes taking a different strategic tack will...
Tuesday 21 December 2010
The e-book reader market: Q&A with E Ink chairman Scott Liu and Hanvon chairman Liu Yingjian (Part II)
Developing color e-book readers using e-paper has been a challenge for makers. But Hanvon, at this year's FPD International in Japan in November, announced what is considered to be...
Monday 20 December 2010
The e-book reader market: Q&A with E Ink chairman Scott Liu and Hanvon chairman Liu Yingjian (Part I)
Developing color e-book readers using e-paper has been a challenge for makers. But Hanvon, at this year's FPD International in Japan in November, announced what is considered to be...
Wednesday 8 December 2010
China 3G market growing fast: Q&A with Digitimes Research analyst Roger Huang
The China telecom market officially entered the 3G era just two years ago, much later than some of its neighbors, such as Japan and Taiwan. But its 3G market will be growing fast...
Wednesday 1 December 2010
AMD to continue focus on traditional PC market: Q&A with AMD CEO Dirk Meyer
AMD has recently been seeing progress in its development of accelerated processing units (APU), while achieving success in discrete GPU market share, during Computex 2010 in June...
Friday 26 November 2010
Acer aims at largest global market share for tablet PCs in 2-3 years, says CEO
Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci, at a press conference for Taiwan-based media in New York, stressed that faced with increasing competition for tablet PCs in the global market, Acer takes...
Wednesday 24 November 2010
Toward increased mobility: Q&A with ARM president Tudor Brown
More than 20 billion ARM-powered processors have been shipped by semiconductor and system companies worldwide over the past 20 years, and the number is expected to top 100 billion...
Friday 19 November 2010
Leveraging flexible pricing: Q&A with TI Taiwan GM Robin Chen
Speculation has circulated in Taiwan that Texas Instruments' (TI) 12-inch wafer foundry plant, which is about to enter volume production for analog chips, will allow the chip vendor...
Wednesday 17 November 2010
Inertial MEMS sensor growth promising: Q&A with Kionix CEO Gregory Galvin
MEMS accelerometer specialist Kionix, just one year after its acquisition by Rohm, recently unveiled its new gyroscope product line targeted at the consumer electronics market. During...
Wednesday 27 October 2010
Intel takes central role in embedded space: Q&A with Michael Chen, managing director, Intel Microelectronics Asia
With the PC market reaching a mature stage, Intel is giving more attention to new market segments to help drive growth. One area the chip giant and its partners see as having strong...