While upstream LED companies did not see their revenues grow as much as expected in the first half of this year, LED chipmaker Huga, founded by Inventec and Yulon, maintained growth and the company set a revenue record...

TPV Technology's own monitor brand AOC overtook Samsung Electronics as the number one monitor brand in China in the first quarter of 2008 and TPV aims to ship a total of 11.5 million units of its own-brand monitors worldwide...

Digitimes recently had the opportunity to interview Taiwan's new Economics Minister Dr. Chii-Ming Yiin, to discuss current issues being handled by Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA), including regulations on investments...

HannStar Display, whose second 3G LCD panel plant has just been taken over by Wintek, has recently been dogged by rumors that it is also seeking to sell off its 5G plant (or 5.3G as the company describes it). But HannStar...

Digitimes recently had the opportunity to interview William Chang, CEO and president of Taiwan-based small- to medium-size panel maker TPO Displays, during which he talked about the company's goal and capacity expansion...

Taiwan's LED production value will reach NT$93.2 billion by 2010, and the region will account for 14% of the global LED market, according to Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI). While a number of LED...

Apart from continuously growing its core business, Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO), a Taiwan-based LCD panel maker, now is expanding into the solar energy market and expects to volume produce thin-film solar energy products...

Although LCD monitor demand remains strong, with global shipments expected to increase 30% this year, annual growth will begin to drop off starting next year, with DisplaySearch forecasting that growth in the global LCD...

The management changes of AU Optronics (AUO) came into effect on September 1 with HB Chen, former president of AUO, taking over as vice chairman/CEO and LJ (Lai-Juh) Chen, former senior vice president and general manager...

While leading in the global ODM/OEM LCD monitor market, TPV Technology is now eyeing the brand business as well. According to the Discloser Data Center (DDC), TPV's AOC-branded monitor totaled 285,000 units in June in China's...

Digitimes had the opportunity to interview Tetsuji Kakimoto, chairman and president of Asahi Glass Fine Techno Taiwan (AFT), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Japan-based Asahi Glass, to talk about the outlook for the LCD glass...

Mobile TV is a hot topic. Technology standards have been set, spectrum has been allocated and the content is there. However, the industry is fragmented, with different markets supporting different standards and spectrums...

As demand for LCD TVs continues to surge and is expected to reach 75 million units this year, the application is becoming the top segment in terms of panel shipment area consumption over that of LCD monitors and notebooks...

With LCD TV panels becoming the focus of TFT LCD panel makers, makers are moving to larger-size panel production. With this trend, first-tier panel makers have become more competitive, as they are more capable in securing...

Anyone who has ever shopped for home stereo equipment can be easily forgiven for mistakenly believing that audio amplifiers are priced by the kilogram, as it seems the further upscale one looks, the bigger and heftier the...

The High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI), jointly developed by Sony, Hitachi, Thomson (RCA), Philips, Matsushita (Panasonic), Toshiba and Silicon Image, is enjoying fast growing popularity. HDMI Licensing, the agent...

The issue of whether LEDs will replace cold-cathode fluorescent lamps (CFFL) to become the major backlighting source for display products in the short-run has been widely discussed. LED makers and research firms used to...

Syntax-Brillian has been marketing Olevia-branded LCD TVs in North America for more than three years and the second-tier vendor projects to grow its LCD TV shipments 92% sequentially to 500,000 units in 2006. DigiTimes...

Graphics used in mobile applications are increasingly being found in a variety of devices, from handsets to GPS navigation devices to ultra-mobile PCs and are playing an increasingly important role in the functioning of...

DigiTimes recently has a chance to talk to Koichi Kubota, general manager of VI Marketing Department, Imaging Products Operations Division from Seiko Epson, to talk about the company's outlook for the projector market in...

DigiTimes recently had a chance to talk to Kuang-Lang Chen, vice president of TFT-business R&D center at Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT), about the recent FPD International 2006 show in Yokohama, Japan (October 18-20)...

Next year is shaping up to be the year when premium broadcast TV content will start becoming available on handsets on a widespread basis, though issues including frequency allocation, content, conditional access and digital...

DLP (digital light processing) technology leader TI (Texas Instruments) is positive about the outlook of next-generation projector applications such as pocket, instant theater and LED-based front projectors in 2007. DigiTimes...

Microdisplay-driven rear-projection TV, particularly of the liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) variety, has been enjoying a revival of industry interest over the past couple of years. The segment offers the enticing possibility...

Finland based and a specialist in IP for mobile video, Hantro is a small company but one with international representation. The company is now poised to offer both hardware- and software-IP solutions for emerging markets...