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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...
Monday 11 September 2006
Where do we go from here? Q&A with Archie Hwang, chairman of SEMI
In June, Archie Hwang became the first chairman of SEMI from Taiwan. In practice, he wears a number of hats. Hwang is chairman and CEO of Taiwan distributorship Hermes-Epitek. Simultaneously...
Friday 8 September 2006
Making FLCOS TV a reality: Q&A with CEO Les Polgar of Forth Dimension Displays, part five
Microdisplay-driven rear-projection TV, particularly of the liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) variety, has been enjoying a revival of industry interest over the past couple of years...
Friday 1 September 2006
Beijing Olympics to boost semiconductor demand: Q&A with Bob Krysiak, general manager of STMicroelectronics' Greater China operations
When STMicroelectronics appointed Bob Krysiak as corporate vice president and general manager to head its newly established Greater China operations in October 2005, it stressed that...
Monday 28 August 2006
Moving ahead in mobile video: Q&A with VP Sami Hyyrylainen of Hantro, part four
Finland based and a specialist in IP for mobile video, Hantro is a small company but one with international representation. The company is now poised to offer both hardware- and software-IP...
Friday 25 August 2006
BenQ spin-off to help realize own-brand success: Q&A with Stan Shih
Stan Shih, founder of the Acer Group, considers that BenQ's plan of separating its own-brand and manufacturing operations...
Friday 18 August 2006
Pursuing polymer optics: Q&A with Christopher Brawley and Gerhard Fehr of Fuji Magnetics
Fuji Magnetics, the EMEA (European, Middle East, Africa) headquarter of Fujifilm's recording media division, is perhaps best known in the industry for its line of data media products...
Friday 11 August 2006
Aviza moves ahead in ALD: Q&A with Subrata Chatterji and Michael Martinez, Aviza Technology, part four
As the semiconductor industry moves further into deep submicron and begins to implement new design techniques and materials such as high-K dielectrics, new deposition techniques are...
Friday 4 August 2006
Armed with patents – An interview with Ron Edgerton, CEO and president of SigmaTel
Although the US-headquartered IC-design house SigmaTel continues to leverage its patents in response to market pressure from its ambitious China-based rival, Actions Semiconductor,...
Wednesday 26 July 2006
Discussing the AMD-ATI deal; Q&A with AMD EVP Henri Richard, part two
Rumors of an AMD acquisition of ATI had been swirling for some time. Certainly the rumor mill was at work prior to Computex in June. Reactions to the initial rumors were varied, ranging...
Wednesday 26 July 2006
Scenarios for the digital home: Q&A with VP Doug Rasor of TI, part four
Texas Instruments (TI) has established itself as a leading provider of chips for mobile phones, but as mobile devices see an increasing convergence between communications and entertainment,...
Wednesday 26 July 2006
PC games and gear: Q&A with Lyle Wagner, marketing and sales director of FiringSquad
Back in June, companies from all facets of the IT industry converged in Taipei for the Computex IT trade show to display their latest wares and catch up on the latest happenings in...
Tuesday 25 July 2006
Scenarios for the digital home: Q&A with VP Doug Rasor of TI, part three
Texas Instruments (TI) has established itself as a leading provider of chips for mobile phones, but as mobile devices see an increasing convergence between communications and entertainment,...
Tuesday 25 July 2006
Discussing the AMD-ATI deal: Q&A with AMD EVP Henri Richard
Rumors of an AMD acquisition of ATI had been swirling for some time. Certainly the rumor mill was at work prior to Computex in June. Reactions to the initial rumors were varied, ranging...
Tuesday 18 July 2006
Digital TV on your cell phone soon: Q&A with David Chang of Siano, part three
Industry observers and analysts are always on the look-out for the next big thing. Many of them think that the next big thing could be in a very small form factor – digital...