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Complete mobile platform solutions: Q&A with Broadcom executive VP Robert Rango
Monday 8 April 2013
In a relentless competition against rivals including Qualcomm, Nvidia and Media in the smartphone chipset market, Broadcom's mobile solutions have found their way into the supply chains of Samsung Electronis' Galaxy Grand...

The challenge for mobile telecom carriers: Q&A with FET president Yvonne Li
Wednesday 19 December 2012
Along with increasing use of smartphones, competition among mobile telecom carriers is changing and they are faced with a big challenge to transform themselves into total solution suppliers for mobile Internet connectivity,...

Addition through subtraction, turning software installation on its head: Q&A with Joshua Shapiro
Wednesday 5 September 2012
One of the key issues historically on the Wintel (Windows-based PCs) side of the PC industry has been the lack of cooperation between software providers and PC OEMs (vendors). According to Joshua Shapiro, a managing partner...

Trend in mobile computing: Q&A with Intel's Gregory Bryant
Wednesday 6 June 2012
Leading up to Computex, Digitimes touched base with Intel's Gregory Bryant, VP of sales and marketing group and general manager of Intel Asia-Pacific Region, to find out more about mobile computer industry developments...

The technology enabler: Q&A with Qualcomm CDMA Technologies president Steve Mollenkopf
Tuesday 5 June 2012
One of the main themes at Computex this year will be mobile computing and how connected consumer electronics devices will be the future of computing. Digitimes spoke with Qualcomm's Steve Mollenkopf, president and chief...

Staying focused on mobile MEMS: Q&A with Bosch Sensortec marketing director Leopold Beer
Friday 25 May 2012
Bosch Sensortec has announced what the company claims is the smallest inertial measurement unit (IMU) in the market. The combo solution is designed to meet the requirements of mobile consumer electronics applications with...

Peer-to-peer Wi-Fi: Talking Wi-Fi Direct with Broadcom VP Michael Hurlston
Tuesday 31 May 2011
Late last year the Wi-Fi Alliance introduced the Wi-Fi Direct peer-to-peer specification that allows Wi-Fi devices to talk to each other without the need for wireless access points (hot spots). Wi-Fi Direct-certified network...

Intel steps up its pace: Interview with Navin Shenoy, general manager, Asia-Pacific region for Intel
Tuesday 31 May 2011
One major topic at Computex Taipei this year is the rise of mobile computing devices built on the ARM platform. This trend is pitting multiple semiconductor firms against computing industry giant Intel, which recently responded...

The new frontier in mobile computing: Q&A with Qualcomm EVP Steve Mollenkopf
Tuesday 31 May 2011
Current trends in mobile devices have substantially changed how we think about computing in general, and looking at the market shows that these tectonic shifts will affect the entire supply chain, from semiconductor providers...

Gearing up for smartphones: Q&A with Arima president Owen Chen
Friday 20 May 2011
Via the ODM business model, Arima Communications has established a firm foothold in the worldwide market for feature phones, said company presient Owen Chen in a recent interview with Digitimes. Chen revealed that...

Distribution in the age of globalization: Q&A with Avnet chairman and CEO Roy Vallee
Monday 16 August 2010
Despite the high-tech sounding name of electronics components distributor Avnet, the company was, in fact, originally a family run business founded more than 80 years ago by Charles Avnet. With its stock being traded for...
Media phones and portable video conferencing: Q&A with UMEC's Kevin Mar
Thursday 3 June 2010
With the economic recovery still on shaky ground and instability rearing its head throughout the world, companies have continued to trim business travel budgets. To stay connected, businesses are relying more than ever...

Breaking down the rumors of iPhone 4G: Q&A with Digitimes Research senior analyst Ming-Chi Kuo
Wednesday 26 May 2010
A fan of Apple or not, one cannot deny that over the past few decades, the company has introduced products that have changed the way we go about our everyday lives. With the iPhone 4G expected to be unveiled in the upcoming...

MediaFLO to compete in Taiwan market: Q&A with Qualcomm VP Neville Meijers
Friday 23 April 2010
As the Taiwan government plans to issue mobile TV operating licenses around the end of 2010, Qualcomm will partner with Taiwan-based enterprises, including Foxlink and Linkmedia Technology (a joint venture of Foxlink and...

Wednesday 14 October 2009
Inventec Appliances is an ODM maker rolling out MP3 players, GPS devices, smartphones, VoIP phones, and 3G data cards, and yet it is also the vendor of OKWAP-brand handsets. In addition, the company has recently unveiled...

Friday 31 July 2009
Acer aims to ship 2-2.5 million own-brand smartphones in 2010 and the company expects its annual shipments to increase to 20 million units by 2012-2014, making the company a top-five global smartphone vendor with a 6-7%...

Smartbooks vs netbooks: Q&A with Qualcomm senior VP Luis Pineda
Tuesday 2 June 2009
While US-based Qualcomm has been a major player driving growth in the wireless handset market over the past 20 years, the company is now looking to expand its market scope into mobile computing with its Snapdragon processor...

Tuesday 2 June 2009
Nvidia built its name around satisfying PC gamers' desire for better graphics, higher resolutions, and higher frame rates, from one GPU generation to the next. But around five years ago the Santa Clara-based chipmaker started...

Trends in the Wi-Fi industry: An interview with Michael Hurlson of Broadcom
Monday 9 June 2008
Just before Broadcom spoke at the Computex CE Summit on June 4, Digitimes had the opportunity to chat with Michael Hurlson, vice president and general manager for the Home and Wireless Networking Business Unit at Broadcom...

Friday 6 June 2008
With Nvidia recently revealing its Tegra processor for mobile computer products to challenge Intel's Atom platform on MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices), Digitimes took the opportunity to talk to Anand Chandrasekher, manager...

Handset demand growth in China promising: Q&A with NXP Greater China VP Stephen Lin
Thursday 27 March 2008
Having an early presence in the China TD-SCDMA chip solution market, NXP Semiconductors reiterates its confidence about the penetration of the TD-SCDMA standard in China in 2008 amid anticipated positive catalysts stemming...

Tuesday 26 February 2008
Digitimes recently had the opportunity to talk with Greg Delagi, senior vice president and general manager of the wireless terminals business unit of Texas Instruments (TI), to hear his comments about the latest handset...

Nvidia talks smartphone plans: Q&A with Michael Rayfield, general manager, mobile business unit
Friday 15 February 2008
Nvidia's recent introduction of the APX 2500 applications processor indicates that the company is getting serious about its offerings in the smartphone market. However, the company faces stiff competition from established...

Monday 7 January 2008
Following the acquisition of the US-based global positioning system (GPS) fabless company GloNav in late December of 2007, NXP Semiconductors...

Freeing your phone: Q&A with Sean Moss-Pultz, president of OpenMoko, Part I
Tuesday 4 December 2007
Google's announcement of Android in early November brought a lot of press to the idea of an open handset platform. Such an idea, however, is not new and OpenMoko is one company that has been publicly pursuing such a goal...
- China market: Several smartphone components in short supply
- AUO supply of iPad mini panels in 2Q13 expected to slip sequentially
- Demand for small-size panel driver ICs stays strong
- Innolux, AUO differ in strategies for tapping China smartphone panel market
- Asustek unveils Intel 8 series motherboards
- Wintek to reportedly set up joint venture 6G touch panel factory in China with Nanjing Panda Electronics
- PCB firm Apex 2Q13 sales to rise over 10%
- Taiwan LED firms to attend Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition 2013
- Touch screen notebook shipments reach 4.57 million units in 1Q13, says Displaybank
- Asia Pacific leads worldwide mobile phone sales growth in 1Q13, says Gartner
- Mobile DRAM revenues slip 5% in 1Q13, says DRAMeXchange
- SMA Technology sees 1Q13 revenues fall on year
- SunPower announces fiscal 2013 financial guidance
- LED plant factory market to reach US$1.2 billion in 2013, says PIDA
- Suntech agrees on new forbearance agreement with converible note holders
- BlackBerry to offer BBM on Android and iOS platforms
- New generation iPhone may adopt sapphire crystal glass for home button
- Ledlink to begin LED lighting shell volume production in May-June
- Ruggedized PC vendors eyeing 7- to 8-inch tablet market
- Equipment maker Acter sees profits down in 1Q13
- Soft-World sees over 50% of 1Q13 profit from 3 subsidiaries
- Corning introduces Lotus XT Glass
- Synnex Technology reports profits for 1Q13
- HannStar Display posts 1Q13 profits
- Taiwan market: HTC, Samsung optimistic about May sales
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- Weak eurozone growth hits euro (May 15) - The Financial Times
- German factory orders rise for second month (May 7) - Bloomberg
- Eurozone retail sales fall for second consecutive month (May 6) - BBC News
- China economy to stay commodity-oriented, says JPMorgan (April 16) - Bloomberg
- S Korea in US$15.3 billion stimulus bid to spur economic growth (April 16) - BBC News
- Gold hit by sharpest tumble in 30 years (April 16) - CNN
- FBI probes Boston 'terror' blasts (April 16) - BBC News
- China GDP growth slows to 7.7% (April 14) - Wall Street Journal
- Digitimes Research: Rising mobile device demand drives TSMC, UMC wafer shipment growth in 2Q13
- Digitimes Research: Battery technologies regain focus as energy storage demand rises
- Digitimes Research: LED light bulb prices in Japan fall in April
- Digitimes Research: Sapphire 2-inch substrate prices to be around US$8/unit in 2013
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Opportunity lies for MEMS energy harvesting: Q&A with Holst Centre general manager Bert Gyselinckx
Digitimes recently interviewed Bert Gyselinckx, general manager of the Holst Centre in Eindhoven, to...

Returning with stronger competitiveness: Q&A with Lu Li-Cheng, Chaintech chairman
Chaintech, a motherboard/graphics card maker, which quit the market once and returned recently, has...

MEMS-enabled energy harvesting: Q&A with MIG executive director Karen Lightman
Digitimes recently spoke with Karen Lightman, the executive director of MEMS Industry Group (MIG),...

Complete mobile platform solutions: Q&A with Broadcom executive VP Robert Rango
In a relentless competition against rivals including Qualcomm, Nvidia and Media in the smartphone chipset...
- Smartphone and tablet industry: The view from Taiwan - May 2012
Taiwan-based companies have a long and successful history of involvement in the supply chain for mobile devices, which for the purposes of this article consist...
- Taiwan motherboard industry overview - May 2012
The year 2011 saw the motherboard industry reverse its trend of declining shipments year-on-year, to post a slight 0.2% growth. This upturn in fortunes was expected...
- Notebook market overview - Jun 2011
The notebook industry in 2010 experienced several major events that significantly changed the industry's ecosystem for the year and the industry is also believed...
- LCD TV overview - Jun 2011
Growth of the global LCD TV market was not as strong as expected in 2010 as the market continued to feel the aftershocks of the economic recession that had hit...
- 2H 2012 global TFT panel market forecast
Digitimes Research predicts there will be a total of 389 million large-sized TFT LCD panels shipped in 2H12, with 195 million in the third quarter and 194 million in the fourth quarter - with the total representing a 7.6% increase over the first half of this year.
- Trends and shipment forecast for 2H 2012 smartphone market
Smartphone shipments in 2010 and 2011 both enjoyed growth of more than 60%. Growth will decelerate in 2012 due to the high base, as well as a slowdown in consumer spending in Western Europe.
- Trends in Asia LED chip manufacturing industry
Asia is playing an ever more important role in upstream LED chip manufacturing. The region accounted for 80% of MOCVD demand in 2011 and will account for 90% in 2012, largely because Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and China are the major global centers for LED chip production.
















