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Tuesday 11 September 2007
What is next for Broadcom? 10-15% handset baseband market share by 2009: Q&A with Broadcom CEO Scott A McGregor, Part II
The success story of Broadcom is not unfamiliar to those in the IT industry. Started in 1991, the 16-year-old fabless company has acquired over 30 companies throughout its history...
Tuesday 11 September 2007
The new direction for AUO: Q&A with AUO chairman, new CEO and president
The management changes of AU Optronics (AUO) came into effect on September 1 with HB Chen, former president of AUO, taking over as vice chairman/CEO and LJ (Lai-Juh) Chen, former...
Monday 10 September 2007
Mobile TV market to enter robust growth starting in 2010: An interview with Sangwoo Han, CTO of FCI
With a vision of the potential of the mobile TV market, Sangwoo Han, CTO of South Korea-based Future Communications IC (FCI), a subsidiary of Silicon Motion Technology, recently visited...
Friday 7 September 2007
Developing a brand monitor business: Q&A with CH Tuan, VP of TPV
While leading in the global ODM/OEM LCD monitor market, TPV Technology is now eyeing the brand business as well. According to the Discloser Data Center (DDC), TPV's AOC-branded monitor...
Thursday 6 September 2007
Second 12-inch fab and 32nm migration in the works: Q&A with Chartered CTO Simon Yang
Though the semiconductor industry is subject to cyclical ups and downs, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing finds it necessary to be well prepared, regardless of the near-term market...
Monday 3 September 2007
What is next for Broadcom? 10-15% handset baseband market share by 2009: Q&A with Broadcom CEO Scott A McGregor, Part I
The success story of Broadcom is not unfamiliar to those in the IT industry. Started in 1991, the 16-year-old fabless company has acquired over 30 companies throughout its history...
Thursday 30 August 2007
Transitioning from a "wafer-printing fab": Q&A with Silterra CEO Eg Kah Yee, part II
Silterra is relatively small in terms of business scale in comparison to well-known big names in the pure-play foundry business. But the Malaysia-based foundry has drawn attention...
Tuesday 28 August 2007
Added value key for R&D development: Q&A with Ulf Schneider, Infineon Asia Pacific Singapore development center VP
While seeing its stock price appreciate by three times over the past year on strong penetration in the handset solution market, Asia plays a vital role for Infineon Technologies,...
Friday 24 August 2007
The niche and big niche for SSD: Q&A with Dean A Klein, Micron memory system development VP, part II
Solid state drives (SSD)s are poised to be a mainstream solid state memory technology with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) in revenues of 71% from 2006 to 2011 as estimated by...
Wednesday 15 August 2007
Turning weeks into days: Q&A with Berkeley Design Automation CEO Ravi Subramanian
Within the global EDA (electronic design automation) industry, Berkeley Design Automation (BDA) is the new kid on the block, with the startup having been in existence for only four...
Thursday 9 August 2007
Taking root in Taiwan: Q&A with Asahi Glass Taiwan subsidiary chairman Tetsuji Kakimoto
Digitimes had the opportunity to interview Tetsuji Kakimoto, chairman and president of Asahi Glass Fine Techno Taiwan (AFT), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Japan-based Asahi Glass,...
Wednesday 8 August 2007
Platform advancement in high gear: Q&A with Novellus dielectric group senior director product manager Julian Hsieh
During Novellus Systems' recent investor conference, the leading plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) system supplier suggested that the global semiconductor industry...
Wednesday 8 August 2007
Surviving in competitive markets: Q&A with Tony Wong, president of PC Partner
With Taiwan-based first-tier motherboard and graphics card makers accounting for over 90% of worldwide motherboard shipments, it is easy to assume that Taiwan has also conquered the...
Monday 30 July 2007
A perfect spin-off: Q&A with NXP president and CEO Frans van Houten, part II
It is almost a year since Royal Philips Electronics transformed Philips Semiconductors into NXP Semiconductors...
Thursday 12 July 2007
Controlling your future: Q&A with Arthur Lin, CEO of the Sunix Group
In a world where everything from banking machines to information kiosks to traffic lights are all interconnected, communication links and the systems that link them all together are...