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Friday 17 February 2006
Chip-design solutions: Q&A with Jim Su and Hugh Huang of EE Solutions, part four
Semiconductor design-service companies face any number of challenges as chip complexity rises in direct proportion to time-to-market pressure. Couple that with the industry’s...
Friday 10 February 2006
Back to Future Waves: receiver side of DAB
Designed in the late 1980s, digital audio broadcasting (DAB) technology is now coming up to potentially replace traditional analog forms of broadcast radio. Taiwan-headquartered IC...
Friday 27 January 2006
The processor wars Part V, Intel's Itanium: To be or not to be? Q&A with Nebojsa Novakovic
To the outside observer, improvements in PC architecture are evolutionary but logical. Processors advance inevitably in speed and performance, in happy accordance with Moore's Law...
Friday 20 January 2006
Leveraging MEMS for flat-panel displays: Q&A with QMT SVP Greg Heinzinger
Qualcomm MEMS Technologies (QMT) was formed following Qualcomm's acquisition of Iridigm Display Corporation in September, 2004. With this acquisition, Qualcomm acquired a technology...
Thursday 19 January 2006
MIPS to the core: Q&A with Noam Shendar, director of Strategic Marketing, MIPS Technologies, part six
Embedded processors are now central to the converged environment that many in the IT and electronics industries are calling the digital home. Noam Shendar, director of Strategic Marketing...
Friday 13 January 2006
The changing landscape for programmable logic: Q&A with Vincent Tong and Richard Terrill of Xilinx, part five
The decision as to whether to go with a custom-ASIC solution or whether to take the programmable-logic route is one that increasingly confronts the chip-design and electronics industries...
Thursday 5 January 2006
Merry Electronics highlights sound magic for wireless applications
Taiwan-based Merry Electronics, which specializes in speakers and receivers for mobile phones and portable electronics devices, has succeeded in developing a variety of accessories...
Friday 30 December 2005
Silterra's strategy for success: Q&A with Steve Della Rocchetta, EVP, Silterra, part three
Despite the attractions of the fabless-plus-foundry model, any foundry hoping to compete in an industry dominated by the likes of UMC and TSMC will need to think carefully about its...
Thursday 29 December 2005
Q&A with projector vendor Optoma
Projector vendor Optoma, a wholly owned subsidiary of projector manufacturer Coretronic, expects to ship about 50,000 units in the Asia region this year, up from 15,000-20,000 units...
Friday 23 December 2005
Art of voice processing – Q&A with Fortemedia chairman and CEO Paul Huang
Several years ago, US-headquartered Fortemedia was known as an IC supplier providing audio controllers for sound card vendors, including several Taiwan companies. While the company...
Friday 16 December 2005
Transcend confident to maintain good margins, expansion continues
Even though the memory business is highly volatile, Taiwan-based memory device maker Transcend Information has been able to maintain gross margins of over 15% on average throughout...
Friday 16 December 2005
Enabling embedded systems: Q&A with Vinay Panchdhari of Wind River, part three
Today, your digital camera and your mobile phone are probably operated and controlled with the help of a real-time operating system or RTOS. The chances are the RTOS could be from...
Tuesday 13 December 2005
Leading by design: Q&A with Dr. Raghuram Tupuri, AMD, part two
AMD’s drive to 64-bit processors surprised everyone with its speed, even as detractors commented that there would be little or no performance gain on the desktop without a 64-bit...
Wednesday 7 December 2005
Not simply silicon: Q&A with deposition specialist Aixtron
Aixtron, headquartered in Aachen, Germany, is a supplier of deposition equipment for the semiconductor industry, traditionally specializing in gas-phase deposition. VLSI Research...
Friday 2 December 2005
Three OLED production lines to be completed by 2008: Q&A with Visionox
Beijing Visionox Technology, a China-based company playing a role in the global OLED (organic light-emitting diode) industry, has set up China’s first pilot line for OLED production...