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Thursday 15 November 2007
No conflict in handset chip market share and profitability: Q&A with STMicroelectronics COO Alain Dutheil
By strengthening ties with number-one handset vendor Nokia in 3G handset chip solutions in...
Thursday 8 November 2007
Differentiation the fundamental profit driver: Q&A with Rambus CEO Harold Hughes
As a leading memory licensing company that focuses on competitive-edge technologies that meet high-performance memory requirements, Rambus stresses the significance of differentiation,...
Tuesday 23 October 2007
Advent of pocket devices means opportunities for everyone: Q&A with Qualcomm UMTS product manager Mohit Bhushan
With feature-phones drawing more consumer attention helped along by high-profile products such as Apple's iPhone and the speculated gPhone from Google, chipmakers for 3G and 3.5G...
Wednesday 17 October 2007
Acquisition of FCI bearing fruit: An interview with Silicon Motion president Wallace Kou
Silicon Motion, which has made its name designing flash controller ICs, lays strong emphasis on its technological strength and service that constantly has landed it opportunities...
Monday 8 October 2007
Brisk IC substrate and PCB sales to resume to normality in 2008: Q&A with Unimicron chairman Tze-Chang Tzeng
Enjoying good order visibility for printed circuit boards (PCBs) through to year-end of 2007, Unimicron Technology, as a leading PCB maker, is also seeing buoyant IC substrate sales...
Thursday 4 October 2007
Stronger analog deployment, stronger foundries ties: Q&A with MIPS marketing VP Jack Browne
Following the announcement of plans to acquire the mixed signal and analog IP specialist Chipidea Microelectronica...
Thursday 4 October 2007
HP performing strongly in global notebook market: Q&A with Dan Forlenza, HP's vice president of business notebook unit
Hewlett-Packard (HP), the world's number one PC vendor, has made substantial gains in the global consumer notebook market and the company is also making headway in the business notebook...
Monday 1 October 2007
ASML reiterates direction on EUV: Q&A with KW Cheng, strategic sales and marketing VP of Asia Pacific
As the third-largest semiconductor equipment supplier after Applied Materials and Tokyo Electron Limited (TEL) and a leading player in the immersion lithography field, ASML has a...
Monday 1 October 2007
Customer is the key for success: Q&A with TI Asia operation president Larry Tan
President of the company's Asia operations since April, Larry Tan of Texas Instruments (TI) believes that a strong relationship with the customer is key for success. Citing a broad...
Friday 14 September 2007
Looking beyond driver IC packaging and testing: Q&A with IST president Gray Huang
For International Semiconductor Technology (IST), a major Taiwan supplier of packaging and testing services for driver ICs, it is time to diversify to other segments. IST president...
Friday 14 September 2007
Living in a material world: Q&A with IC material distributor Wahlee deputy CEO Chun-Yin Chen
Having been in the semiconductor business for several decades, materials supplier Wahlee Industrial provides materials used in engineering plastics, compound materials, printed circuit...
Friday 14 September 2007
Use of ALD inevitable: Q&A with Aviza Technology president and CEO Jerry Cutini
With Aviza Technology recently announcing a development program with Taiwan-based Mosel Vitelic for developing advanced atomic layer deposition (ALD) materials for next-generation...
Thursday 13 September 2007
Getting to know Terry Tsao: Q&A with the new SEMI Southeast Asia president
Earlier this year, Terry Tsao was appointed president of SEMI Southeast Asia. Tsao is responsible for the association's programs, products and services in Singapore and Taiwan, as...
Thursday 13 September 2007
Bonding with SUSS MicroTec: Q&A with Heinz Siegert, general manager of SUSS Taiwan
With more than 7,000 of its semiconductor manufacturing systems shipped worldwide, SUSS MicroTec is not discouraged by the recent trimming of growth forecasts for the semiconductor...
Wednesday 12 September 2007
The state of the industry: Q&A with SEMI president Stanley Myers
When looking to divine the direction of the semiconductor industry, it makes sense to turn to SEMI, the global industry association serving companies that provide equipment, materials...