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Tuesday 30 August 2005
Interviewing Vitesse, part one
Last month, Vitesse Semiconductor opened a Customer Technology Center in Taipei. Equipped with a lab, the new center gives customers access to Vitesse's team of application engineers,...
Monday 29 August 2005
Inventory problem taught me a lesson; an interview with Optimax chairman Larry Lai
Suffering from inventory pressure, TFT LCD polarizer maker Optimax estimates its second quarter revenues will increase only 4% sequentially to NT$5.2 billion. However, the company...
Monday 29 August 2005
Interview with Pioneer High Fidelity president Nobuyuki Kokubo
Facing aggressive competition in the flat panel TV market, Pioneer, the leading (PDP) plasma display panel supplier in the world, has been considering its sales and marketing strategy...
Thursday 25 August 2005
Philips CEO: Company to increase outsourcing of foundry services
During his recent visit to Taiwan, Philips Semiconductors CEO Frans van Houten stated that Philips’ foundry production is currently running at full capacity and the company...
Thursday 25 August 2005
Making wireless mesh a reality: Accton moves ahead in 802.11s
Wireless-mesh networking is like a rare species – often talked about but seldom seen in the wild. One Taiwan company busy turning mesh networking into reality is Accton Technology,...
Tuesday 23 August 2005
Acer aspires to an alternative to the Dell method: Q&A with company chairman JT Wang
Acer’s aspiration to eventually become the world’s number three PC vendor may have taken a step further. The latest figures compiled by International Data Corporation...
Tuesday 23 August 2005
Q&A with ChipMOS chairman: LCD driver IC testing and packaging ASPs to grow 5-15% in 2H 2005
The leading Taiwan-based LCD driver IC testing and packaging house, ChipMOS Technologies, is confident that the market’s bullish outlook will persist through the end of the...
Tuesday 16 August 2005
Printed TVs at your store soon? Q&A with Ian Chao of CDT
The keenest competition in the global television market is the race for the next generation of flat-panel technology, and leading the charge is the UK-based Cambridge Display Technology...
Friday 12 August 2005
ARM advances: Q&A with ARM VP John Cornish
ARM (Advanced RISC Machines) continues to turn the soft-IP business model into a success story. Last year saw the company undertake major acquisitions, and this year will see the...
Friday 5 August 2005
Goodbye RioWorks, hello Arima!
Having moved most of its manufacturing to Wujiang in China’s Jiangsu Province (about 20km from Suzhou and 60km from Shanghai), Taipei-headquartered Arima Computer is already...
Tuesday 2 August 2005
Supplying storage solutions: Q&A with Acard Technology
Acard Technology is best known for its SCSIDE bridge solution, which allows IDE, and now SATA, drives to be aggregated on a SCSI interface. This allows mass data storage solutions...
Thursday 28 July 2005
Building the one stop shop: Q&A with newly appointed Motorola Taiwan president Tom Hsiao
Tom Hsiao, the newly appointed president of Motorola Electronics Taiwan, promised to implement Motorola’s successful experience in promotion of handset sales in the Taiwan market...
Wednesday 27 July 2005
Next-generation Wi-Fi from Metalink: Q&A with VP David Pereg
Headquartered in Israel, with design centers in both the US and Israel, Metalink Broadband is moving ahead with wireless LAN at the 802.11n standard and recently announced a new chipset...
Friday 22 July 2005
Talking to Mentor: Q&A with Johnny Chang of Mentor Graphics
Measured in purely financial terms, Mentor Graphics is not as large as its two nearest neighbors at the top of the EDA industry. Nevertheless, Mentor is an acknowledged EDA leader...
Friday 15 July 2005
Bluetooth car kits: expectations and reality
Highlighted this year as an innovation that will help a whole new range of devices enter the car market and raise the penetration of the technology itself, Bluetooth car kits are...