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...

Analog Devices’ Blackfin processor is an unusual design that combines control processing and digital signal processing on the same chip. Jointly developed with Intel, the Blackfin...

Headquartered in the US and Shanghai, Fabless-IC design firm Spreadtrum Communications was China’s first company to develop GSM/GPRS-based (2G/2.5G) baseband processors, with...

BenQ’s agreement to buy Siemens AG’s money-losing Mobile Phones unit has been greeted mostly with skepticism and pessimism in the business world. The media and many market...

Crediting its success to its 90nm product segment and multi-foundry strategy with manufacturing partners United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) and Toshiba, Xilinx expects to see...

Innolux Display began having its stock traded on Taiwan’s Emerging Stock Board this week, and although Innolux is the seventh Taiwan-based company to enter the TFT LCD business,...

Working closely with foundry UMC, Faraday Technology is generally acknowledged to be Taiwan’s leading design service house. Faraday has seen success in an intensely competitive...

Located in the BOE Display Technology Park in Beijing, China, Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology (BOE OT) was established in June, 2003, with a 50% investment from China's BOE...

Having unveiled the world’s first 802.11a, 802.11a/b and 802.11a/b/g WLAN chips for PC systems, Atheros Communications is now venturing into the mobile and consumer electronics...

Founded in 2002, Empia Technology is an IC-design house focused on USB-supporting system-on-chip (SoC) solutions such as interface engines, flash disk controllers and video bridges...

Internet radio, while a bit of a contradiction in terms, is catching on fast. Not surprisingly, devices are now coming into the market that free the listener from constantly being...

Far ahead of the competition, US-based Kingston Technology led the DRAM-module industry in 2004 with a 27% market share, according to iSuppli, while its two closest competitors, US-based...

The success of the Apple iPod has brought home to a mass market that hard disk drives are now considered a viable form of portable mass storage. And after all, millions of users have...

Having created the Flybook brand name, Taiwan’s Dialogue Technology is now targeting the worldwide market with a new concept in mobile computing. The Flybook is a small-size...

When the market was very bullish on panel makers in 2004, Ray Chen, president of notebook maker Compal Electronics and chairman of packaging and testing company International Semiconductor...