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Friday 8 April 2005
Intel Q&A: Homework for motherboard makers
For Taiwan’s motherboard industry there is definitely no company more important than Intel. While other processor and chipset makers, as well as other component suppliers and...
Tuesday 5 April 2005
Expectations for the CMOS image-sensor module market this year, an interview with Lite-On Semiconductor president, MK Lu
Lite-On Semiconductor, a Taiwan-based vendor of CMOS image-sensors and other discrete ICs, has begun volume shipments of its 1.3-megapixel CMOS image-sensor modules, made using a...
Friday 1 April 2005
Motherboard vendors unable to buy all capacitors from Japan – An interview with Holy Stone director Eric Yeh
Consuming enormous amounts of passive and active electronic components, Taiwan’s IT industry creates many opportunities for doing business in the field. Established in 1981,...
Friday 1 April 2005
Designing for LCOS Success: Q&A with Michael Tang, VP, eLCOS
At the heart of liquid-crystal on silicon (LCOS) technology is semiconductor design, the silicon-based microdisplay panel, and it’s the design of the panel that determines whether...
Thursday 31 March 2005
Interview with SanDisk executive vice chairman, Nelson Chan
SanDisk, the world’s top flash memory card maker, recently announced its decision to venture into the MP3 player market, where it expects to have the same share it has for the...
Wednesday 30 March 2005
No problem to survive – An interview with GeIL CEO Jeff Hsieh
DigiTimes.com talked with Jeff Hsieh, chief executive officer of DRAM-module maker GeIL about survival strategies for small DRAM-module makers. Many in the industry expect this year...
Tuesday 29 March 2005
Strategizing around Industrial Dynamics: Q&A with Professor John Mathews
John Mathews, PhD, Professor of Management at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management (New South Wales, Australia), has published widely on the rise of the IT, electronics and...
Friday 25 March 2005
Expertise in RPTV: An interview with LCOS specialist Prokia Technology
In Taiwan, a handful of companies, including panel and optical-engine suppliers, are in the process of establishing a supply chain for TVs based on liquid-crystal on silicon (LCOS)...
Monday 21 March 2005
Airgo to unveil second-generation MIMO chips in 2Q
Airgo Networks, the first company to deliver WLAN chipsets based on MIMO (multiple input multiple output) technology, plans to unveil its second-generation of MIMO chipsets by the...
Friday 18 March 2005
Crucial: FB-DIMMs and registered DIMMs will co-exist for the life of DDR2
Earlier this year, US-based DRAM manufacturer Micron announced industry-first fully buffered dual in-line memory modules (FB-DIMM) using DDR2-667 components. DigiTimes.com spoke with...
Thursday 17 March 2005
Onward and Upward in OLED: An interview with Teco Optronics president Chan Wang
A subsidiary of Taiwan TV maker Teco Electric & Machinery, Teco Optronics entered the OLED market for just under NT$1 billion in capital (approximately equivalent to US$32.5 million)...
Wednesday 16 March 2005
Interview with Foundry Networks vice president Ivy Hsu
DigiTimes recently sat down with Ivy Hsu, Vice President and General Manager of Service Provider Solutions at Foundry Networks, to define the company’s position from...
Wednesday 16 March 2005
Next-generation EDA for deep sub-micron: Q&A with Cy Hay, Synopsys Inc.
On the occasion of a recent visit to Taipei, DigiTimes.com had the opportunity to talk with Cy Hay, marketing manager, Test Automation Products, Synopsys Inc. Hay emphasized the need...
Wednesday 16 March 2005
AMD’s Challenges and technology lead in 64-bit CPUs: Q&A with CEO Hector de Ruiz
Hector de Ruiz, chairman, president and CEO of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), was in Taipei last week, to tout the company’s technology edge in the development of 64-bit CPUs,...
Friday 11 March 2005
Microdriving the future – An interview with Cornice VP David Feller
When Samsung introduced its SPH-V5400 mobile phone featuring a 1.5GB one-inch Cornice Storage Element (SE) in September last year, it was perceived as a significant step towards the...