Established in the US in late 1980s, Tyan Computer has a good reputation as supplier of motherboards for x86-based servers and workstations. The company moved its headquarters to Taiwan in 2002, motivated by a need to consolidate...

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...

Rumors of an AMD acquisition of ATI had been swirling for some time. Certainly the rumor mill was at work prior to Computex in June. Reactions to the initial rumors were varied, ranging from financial incredulity, when...

Texas Instruments (TI) has established itself as a leading provider of chips for mobile phones, but as mobile devices see an increasing convergence between communications and entertainment, TI is increasingly positioning...

Back in June, companies from all facets of the IT industry converged in Taipei for the Computex IT trade show to display their latest wares and catch up on the latest happenings in the IT industry. Many people associate...

Texas Instruments (TI) has established itself as a leading provider of chips for mobile phones, but as mobile devices see an increasing convergence between communications and entertainment, TI is increasingly positioning...

Rumors of an AMD acquisition of ATI had been swirling for some time. Certainly the rumor mill was at work prior to Computex in June. Reactions to the initial rumors were varied, ranging from financial incredulity, when...

Taiwan-based Universal Scientific Industrial's (USI's) successful product diversification strategy and transition of industry focus allowed it to recover from a financial crisis in 1999, with the company's business scope...

The name Philips has long been associated with consumer electronics, but as the concept of the connected home has developed and begun to take on meaning, Philips Semiconductors has become one of the main suppliers of silicon...

Readers of DigiTimes.com will be familiar with the major technical differentiation we now see between the twin poles of the PC processor world, AMD and Intel. AMD has broken free of a front-side bus architecture, integrating...

As one of the leading hardware distributors in Russia, Pirit has built its business around its relationship with Taiwan. Established in 1990, Pirit has now accumulated over 10 years of experience doing business with Taiwan...

KJ Chou, general manager of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Taiwan, clarified recent negative rumors about AMD's capacity and product performance issues when he was interviewed by DigiTimes. The chip vendor released its 64-bit...

As a pioneer of a new technology, called IPTV (Internet Protocol Television), that delivers digital TV services to subscribers using the IP protocol over a broadband connection, UK-based ANT Software has already obtained...

David Su, the newly appointed CEO of Arima Computer, recently spoke with DigiTimes about the company's outlook, his optimism for a new market presence and an opportunity to correct past mistakes. There is no lack of challenge...

In an extended interview with Singapore-based consultant Nebojsa Novakovic, last month, the focus was on the turf war that lies at the heart of the global IT industry, the battle for supremacy in the processor markets....

The marriage of Ultra-Wideband and USB remains a tantalizing vision for the communications industry, although perhaps a marriage made in hell as much as in heaven. The IT and communications industries have long regarded...

With several success stories under its belt, Oregan Networks expects DLNA certification, Viiv PCs and CEA-2014 ratification to soon bring some level of standardization to the digital home entertainment market. This should...

Recognized by local experts as one of undoubted leaders of the Russian IT market, Merlion earned its reputation as the largest IT distributor in Russia and the company behind the popular iRU brand that was owned by its...

DigiTimes recently named two companies as International News Makers in 2005. One of those companies was Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).

To the outside observer, improvements in PC architecture are evolutionary but logical. Processors advance inevitably in speed and performance, in happy accordance with Moore's Law. For Nebojsa Novakovic, a consultant in...

AMD’s drive to 64-bit processors surprised everyone with its speed, even as detractors commented that there would be little or no performance gain on the desktop without a 64-bit OS and 64-bit applications. Whatever...

Drew Henry, General Manager of Nvidia Platform Products Division, recently sat down with DigiTimes and talked about the prospects for Nvidia’s upcoming integrated chipset series, the C51.

Acer’s aspiration to eventually become the world’s number three PC vendor may have taken a step further. The latest figures compiled by International Data Corporation (IDC) show that Acer enjoyed on-year sales...

Having moved most of its manufacturing to Wujiang in China’s Jiangsu Province (about 20km from Suzhou and 60km from Shanghai), Taipei-headquartered Arima Computer is already phasing out the RioWorks brand name that...

Acard Technology is best known for its SCSIDE bridge solution, which allows IDE, and now SATA, drives to be aggregated on a SCSI interface. This allows mass data storage solutions that have all the virtues of SCSI without...