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Wednesday 4 October 2006
HIS strength with "ATI Only": Conversation with HIS company marketing director Peter Yeung
Hong Kong-based Hightech Information System (HIS), which specializes in ATI-based graphics cards in the channel gaming market, disagrees with the notion that small-scale companies,...
Tuesday 3 October 2006
Distributing beyond the PC: Q&A with Ashwin Navin, co-founder and president of BitTorrent
BitTorrent recently has made a push to reinvent itself as a content distribution company and has signed deals with Warner Brothers and other studios to distribute their movies and...
Friday 29 September 2006
CEVA rides the multimedia wave: Q&A with VP Gweltaz Toquet, part four
According to market research, the semiconductor-IP business is growing, and one company enjoying that upside is CEVA, a leading licensor of DSP IP cores. In 2005, 130 million devices...
Wednesday 27 September 2006
Enabling multimedia on PCs: Q&A with Louis Chen, marketing manager of CyberLink
In the realm of multimedia, CyberLink is probably best known for its PowerDVD software player. With the release of Blu-ray and HD DVD players this year, CyberLink has been busy incorporating...
Wednesday 27 September 2006
3G or WiMAX: Conversation with Hakan Eriksson, senior vice president and CTO of Ericsson
The development of 3G and HSPA (High Speed Packet Access) technologies still remains the current focus of the mobile communications industry, and chances are low that WiMAX will become...
Tuesday 26 September 2006
CEVA rides the multimedia wave: Q&A with CEVA VP Gweltaz Toquet
According to market research, the semiconductor-IP business is growing, and one company enjoying that upside is CEVA, a leading licensor of DSP IP cores. In 2005, 130 million devices...
Tuesday 26 September 2006
Acer bounces back: Q&A with chairman JT Wang
Although Acer had grown accustomed to seeing its notebook shipments grow 70-80% on year, the company only saw growth of 30-40% in the first half of this year. Consequently, Acer's...
Tuesday 26 September 2006
Digicams for consumers: Q&A with Thomas Ho, sales director, DXG Technology, part three
DXG Technology is typical of Taiwan's digital camera makers in that it pursues the mainstream consumer market, while recognizing the reality that high-end digital camera production...
Friday 15 September 2006
Now known as Vistec
Earlier this summer, DigiTimes.com had the opportunity to talk about the SEMICON show with the general manager of Vistec Semiconductor Systems Division, Gerhard Ruppik, and Vistec...
Wednesday 13 September 2006
The Mentor model: Q&A with Walden Rhines, chairman and CEO, Mentor Graphics, part four
Mentor Graphics is routinely assessed as the third of the "big three" in EDA, but in practice, this pigeon-holing is simply a comparative reference to revenues. The truth...
Wednesday 13 September 2006
Micron: Analyzing the present, looking to the future
Although the issue of excessive inventory is casting a shadow over the global semiconductor industry, players in the memory sector continue increasing their capital expenditure (capex)...
Tuesday 12 September 2006
Controlled chaos of renaissance: Q&A with Ho-Ming Tong, R&D general manager of ASE
Last year, Taiwan's leading packaging-and-testing house Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) was expected to have a tough time since the company suffered from a fire at its plant...
Tuesday 12 September 2006
The pre-N product market: Q&A with Michael Hurlston, vice president of Broadcom
Although sales of pre-N (pre-802.11n) products in the retail channel were slower than expected in the third quarter of this year, increasing demand for pre-N modules from notebooks...
Tuesday 12 September 2006
The Mentor model: Q&A with Walden Rhines, chairman and CEO, Mentor Graphics, part three
Mentor Graphics is routinely assessed as the third of the "big three" in EDA, but in practice, this pigeon-holing is simply a comparative reference to revenues. The truth...
Monday 11 September 2006
Trenching ahead: Q&A with Charles Kau, president of Inotera
Created less than four years ago as a joint venture between the Germany-based Infineon Technologies and Taiwan-based Nanya Technology, Inotera Memories is now seen as an example of...