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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...
Wednesday 2 February 2005
Memory-module makers could face a tough 2005 – An interview with Kingston Technology VP Scott Chen
Compared to the previous two years, when the market demonstrated double-digit growth, an expected slowdown this year could mean a tough time for DRAM-module makers. For small players,...
Tuesday 1 February 2005
The XPC factor: An interview with Ken Huang, the man behind the Shuttle XPC
Although the PC industry has always seen variations of small-form-factor (SFF) PCs, it was only when Shuttle Computer introduced its first XPC about four years ago that the segment...
Tuesday 1 February 2005
Altera talks about the FPGA competition, the market and production at 90nm
On a recent visit to Taiwan, Ben Lee, Altera vice president and managing director for the Asia Pacific, sat down with DigiTimes.com to talk about the company’s strategy...
Thursday 27 January 2005
Heading up Helix: Interview with Sintek chairman Si-chung Chang
Si-chung Chang is chairman of several TFT LCD-related companies in Taiwan and China, including color filter (CF) maker Sintek Photronic, backlight-module maker Helix Technology, Global...
Thursday 27 January 2005
TSMC – The Big Design: An interview with R&D VP Ping Yang
DigiTimes.com recently had the opportunity to talk with Ping Yang Ph.D., VP for R&D at foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). VP Ping Yang outlined the company’s...
Thursday 27 January 2005
Graphics improvement: Interview with Tul CEO Ted Chen
Tul Corporation saw its graphics card shipments surge 70% on-year to four million units in 2004, making it the third-largest graphics card maker in Taiwan and ATI Technologies’...
Wednesday 26 January 2005
Supplying ATE in Asia: Interview with SPEA sales director Giovanni Noto
Asia’s growing output of semiconductors, OLEDs and LCD-driver ICs means big business for equipment makers. SPEA, an Italy-based maker of automated test equipment (ATE) for semiconductors,...
Wednesday 26 January 2005
Pioneering RFID in Taiwan – An interview with Pretide Technology CEO Sharon Chen
Pretide Technology is one of several small, but fast-growing and very ambitious companies experimenting with emerging technologies in the hope of greater success later, when solutions...
Friday 21 January 2005
Flat panels go nanotech: Taiwan’s ITRI pioneers CNT-FED, part one
TFT LCD looks firmly entrenched as the dominant flat-panel technology, but in fact the displays industry is keen to find a technology that delivers better performance – and,...
Thursday 20 January 2005
DisplaySearch: 29- to 32-inch segment to become LCD-TV mainstream
Although LCD-TV panel prices did not slump as much as those of TFT-LCD panels last year, market research firms and financial firms did end up readjusting their 2005 forecasts for...
Thursday 13 January 2005
Interview with Paul Jones, CEO of PDP Systems
In a recent visit to Taiwan, Paul Jones, CEO of PDP Systems, a US-based DRAM-module maker, talked to DigiTimes about Asia emerging as a major DRAM-module market, Taiwan’s...
Friday 7 January 2005
Cameo sees the light, merges with Global Sun: Q&A with Evelyn Wang, general manager of Cameo Communications
Network-equipment maker Cameo Communications made a surprising move by striking a merger deal with Global Sun Technology via a stock swap in late October 2004. Under the deal, which...
Wednesday 5 January 2005
Heterogeneous Integration is Key – Q&A with Etron Technology, part one
Right at the cutting edge of Taiwan’s chip design industry is Etron Technology. A relatively small and young company, located in the Hsinchu Science Park (HSP), Etron has attracted...
Monday 27 December 2004
Interview with John Lee, chairman, Alpha Networks
DigiTimes recently interviewed John Lee, chairman of Alpha Networks, to talk about how the company has transformed itself from being a subsidiary into a contract maker for...