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Wednesday 5 May 2010
Partnering with Globalfoundries: Q&A with Socle chairman Song-Hwee Chia
Socle Technology, formerly a IC design service subsidiary of Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, now works closely with Globalfoundries and looks to become the bridge between the...
Wednesday 5 May 2010
Objective Analysis: PCIe and standard interface SSDs should coexist for a very long time
Jim Handy joined semiconductor market researchers at Objective Analysis after more than 30 years in the electronics industry that included 14 years as an industry analyst for Dataquest...
Tuesday 27 April 2010
China to become the driver of future revenues growth: Q&A with Nvidia general manager of MCP business Drew Henry
With numerous negative rumors surrounding the discrete graphics card market regarding Nvidia's new GeForce 480/470 (Fermi) graphics chip, and facing competition from AMD, Digitimes...
Friday 23 April 2010
Amigo looking to create a win-win situation with clients
In a wireless market filled with numerous products and players, Taiwan-based network device maker Amigo Technology has been able to successfully establish its products and solutions,...
Friday 23 April 2010
MediaFLO to compete in Taiwan market: Q&A with Qualcomm VP Neville Meijers
As the Taiwan government plans to issue mobile TV operating licenses around the end of 2010, Qualcomm will partner with Taiwan-based enterprises, including Foxlink and Linkmedia Technology...
Tuesday 23 March 2010
Aiming to become 'MediaTek' for white-box notebooks: Q&A with Shuttle president David Chen
Aiming to become an equivalent of MediaTek in the white-box notebook market, Shuttle has been working aggressively to set up standards for notebook components and other specifications,...
Friday 20 November 2009
Strong partnerships and complete solutions drive growth: Q&A with LSI executive VP and general manager Jeff Richardson
Despite the economic downturn in 2008, LSI saw annual revenues increase. With complete solutions and a strong position in the storage and networking markets, LSI is expected to continue...
Wednesday 14 October 2009
Business opportunities from smartbooks and e-book readers: Q&A with Inventec Appliances chairman Jackson Chang
Inventec Appliances is an ODM maker rolling out MP3 players, GPS devices, smartphones, VoIP phones, and 3G data cards, and yet it is also the vendor of OKWAP-brand handsets. In addition,...
Wednesday 30 September 2009
A peek at the semiconductor industry from the materials side: Q&A with Wouter Taen, BASF director of business management, Asia
Headquartered in Germany, BASF is the world's largest chemical company, operating all over the world and covering a vast number of different industries, including the semiconductor,...
Wednesday 30 September 2009
Failure as opportunity to learn: Q&A with Corning CEO Wendell P Weeks
Many companies went bankrupt in the financial storm, and the remaining companies also learned the lesson the hard way. In the aftermath of the financial woes, many enterprises are...
Friday 25 September 2009
Taiwan renewable energy feed-in tariffs not final: Q&A with Huey-ching Yeh, director general of the Bureau of Energy
At a September 24 public hearing held by the Bureau of Energy (BE) under Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) to discuss its recently announced tentative feed-in tariff rates...
Thursday 10 September 2009
Telecom equipment demand to pick up in 4Q09: Q&A with Alcatel-Lucent North Asia president Alain Biston
Demand for telecom equipment in the North Asia region is expected to stage a major upturn in the fourth quarter of 2009 as carriers in the region are beginning to deploy their LTE...
Tuesday 8 September 2009
Bosch-Akustica acquisition a win-win strategy: Q&A with Akustica founder Michael E Elchik
MEMS microphone supplier Akustica was officially acquired by automotive MEMS IDM Robert Bosch North America in August 2009. Michael E Elchik, Akustica's founder and VP of sales, recently...
Friday 31 July 2009
Acer aims to be top-five smartphone vendor: Q&A with Aymar de Lencquesaing, president of SHBG at Acer
Acer aims to ship 2-2.5 million own-brand smartphones in 2010 and the company expects its annual shipments to increase to 20 million units by 2012-2014, making the company a top-five...
Tuesday 30 June 2009
Chipbond gearing up 12-inch wafer bumping output: Q&A with chairman Fei-Jain Wu
Gold bumping service provider, Chipbond Technology, which also offers COF/COG (chip-on-film/chip-on glass) turnkey services, has identified outsourcing of LCD driver-IC bumping and...