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Friday 2 March 2007
Handset applications an exciting market: Q&A with SanDisk co-founder and president, Sanjay Mehrotra
SanDisk not only serves as the world's largest vendor of flash-based memory cards, but also plays the role as a wafer maker, enabling the company to streamline all processes from...
Thursday 1 March 2007
AMD keeping open platform strategy: Q&A with sales and marketing vice president Jochen Polster
AMD's recent launch of its 690-series chipset is the company's first launch of an integrated chipset since it acquired graphics chip maker ATI and represents a new milestone for the...
Tuesday 27 February 2007
Opportunities in smart handheld devices: Q&A with E-Ten chairman Hwang Shan-rong
A number of handset and IT product makers in Taiwan have ventured into the production of PDA phones in the past two years, either on an OEM basis or as own-brand products. E-Ten Information...
Friday 16 February 2007
Well-driven 'small car': Q&A with GSMC executive VP Arthur Kuo
During the first-quarter downturns for the foundry sector, China-based Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (GSMC) has been able to run at almost full capacity. In the words...
Friday 16 February 2007
Technology protectionism unlikely to help Taiwan's IT industry: Q&A with East-West Center professor Dieter Ernst, part three
Formerly a senior advisor to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and research director of the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE)...
Friday 9 February 2007
Swimming on the shoulders of giants: Q&A with Horus Shu, pixel magician from ITRI
Established in 1973, the government-sponsored Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) is known around the globe as Taiwan's largest technology research and development center...
Thursday 8 February 2007
Restructuring for growth: Q&A with Sunplus Technology chairman Huang Chou Chye
Taiwan-based IC designer Sunplus Technology has been undergoing a series of restructuring in order to boost the company's profitability. Last year it spun off three business units...
Tuesday 6 February 2007
Digital audio for digital TVs: An interview with D2Audio CEO Brian Wong
Anyone who has ever shopped for home stereo equipment can be easily forgiven for mistakenly believing that audio amplifiers are priced by the kilogram, as it seems the further upscale...
Tuesday 6 February 2007
More consolidation expected in motherboard industry: Q&A with ECS vice president David Liu, part two
Riding on the wings of the golden era of Taiwan's motherboard industry, Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) saw its share price soar to over NT$200 by the beginning of 2002, while the...
Friday 26 January 2007
Aspiring for 45nm: Q&A with Louie Leung, Asia-Pacific marketing director for Altera
In November of 2006, Altera said it will start volume production of its 65nm-made Stratix III family FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays) in 2008. About the same time, its major...
Thursday 25 January 2007
Withstanding price pressure: Q&A with Richard Najarian, vice president of sales at Global Locate
California-based Global Locate, a producer of A-GPS (assisted-GPS) semiconductors and software, recently caught quite some attention when it announced that its Hammerhead GPS solution...
Wednesday 24 January 2007
IC design service as a bridge: Q&A with Faraday president HP Lin and Global Unichip president Jim Lai
The successful cooperation between foundries and IC design houses is well documented. With the division of labor getting finer, however, the once seamless cooperation between foundries...
Tuesday 23 January 2007
Connecting your HD devices: Q&A with HDMI Licensing VP Steve Venuti
The High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI), jointly developed by Sony, Hitachi, Thomson (RCA), Philips, Matsushita (Panasonic), Toshiba and Silicon Image, is enjoying fast growing...
Friday 19 January 2007
'Nvidia only' strategy pays off for XFX: Q&A with Pine Technology chairman Michael Chiu
When Nvidia launched its GeForce 8800, the whole camp of Nvidia camp graphics card makers was elated, and among them was Pine Technology, which markets graphics cards under the XFX...
Friday 12 January 2007
KYE to operate brand products for 100 years and beyond: Q&A with OBM general manager Alex Lee
Taiwan-based KYE Systems has been marketing a variety of computer peripherals, including mice, keyboards, speakers and webcams, gaming devices and other items, under its own Genius...