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Wednesday 9 March 2005
Taking up the LCOS challenge: Q&A with UMO president JJ Lee
Some in the displays industry see Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCOS) technology rather as a gardener looks at hardy perennials. Interest comes and goes as successive waves of corporate...
Wednesday 9 March 2005
Micron lays out 2005 projections for CMOS image sensors
Farhad Rostamian, the strategic marketing director of Micron Technology, explained to DigiTimes in a recent interview how he believes that more applications are going to help...
Friday 4 March 2005
Targeting AMD and ATI, ULi finds its niche
ULi Electronics was spun off from ALi, to focus on core-logic chipsets, about two years ago. DigiTimes recently met with ULi CEO and president Alex Kuo to talk about how the company...
Thursday 3 March 2005
VoIP is the trend: Interview with Digital United president Chia-jiun Cherng
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has become one of the hottest networking trends and one that Taiwan’s Internet service providers (ISPs) can no longer ignore. DigiTimes recently...
Wednesday 2 March 2005
Interview: Hitachi GST HDD shipments to double this year
Hitachi Global Storage Technology (Hitachi GST) expects its 2005 sales volume of 1-inch microdrives to grow by more than 200%, while its 1.8-inch model sales should grow 300% from...
Tuesday 1 March 2005
Halo 2 developer Brian Jarrard: Passion is the key to successful games
Brian Jarrard, developer of the Halo 2 online game and lead community development manager at Bungie.net, was in Taipei last week to attend the 2005 Taipei Game Show held from February...
Friday 25 February 2005
The Xilinx vision goes beyond integrated logic
DigiTimes.com recently spoke on the phone with Sandeep Vij, vice president of worldwide marketing with FPGA leader Xilinx, to discuss the company’s flagship product Virtex-4...
Monday 21 February 2005
AtGames talks about establishing the Sega brand in Greater China
AtGames, a Bermuda-based game-software distributor, signed a distribution agreement with game-software giant Sega earlier this year, according to a Sega press...
Friday 18 February 2005
Silitech: Handset components to become modularized
Silitech, a 60%-owned subsidiary of Lite-On Technology, posted unaudited earnings per share (EPS) of NT$8 in 2004. This year, the handset-keypad specialist plans to enter other handset-component...
Wednesday 16 February 2005
Interview with Austin Huang, president of IC-design house Syncomm
Since 2000, the number of fabless IC-design houses in Taiwan has been increasing rapidly. Many firms today are producing similar products with little differentiation, and this has...
Tuesday 15 February 2005
Motherboard compatibility is the key priority – An interview with Kingmax VP Lawrence Chang
Having boosted its capacity by 50% with a new plant in China, Kingmax Semiconductor is hoping to increase its share of the DRAM-module market. But this strategy poses plenty of questions...
Monday 14 February 2005
Interview with Syntax Groups CEO: LCOS has major potential in China
Syntax Groups has cooperated with Taiwan-based companies (such as Chi Mei Optoelectronics [CMO], Kolin and Prokia Technology) to produce low-cost high-quality LCD and LCOS (liquid-crystal-on-silicon)...
Monday 7 February 2005
Silicon Valley versus Taiwan: An interview with StorLink Semiconductors chairman Stewart Wu
Stewart Wu, Ph.D., founded Altima Communications in 1997, in the US, and succeeded in developing the world’s smallest networking physical-layer chip. In 2000, he sold Altima...
Monday 7 February 2005
Juniper Taiwan talks about terabit routing, Ethernet versus ATM and broadband to the core
Juniper Networks is building up its intellectual capital all around Asia, working from the premise of a strong support system for its customers. DigiTimes recently had an opportunity...
Friday 4 February 2005
Perfect Timing: An interview with System General president Chandler Li
The president of the Taiwan-based analog-IC design house System General (SG), Chandler Li, talked with DigiTimes about the company, its target markets and how local design houses...