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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...

Globalfoundries already finding potential customers in Japan and Taiwan: Q&A with CEO Doug Grose
Wednesday 25 March 2009
Globalfoundries, the spin-off of AMD's former manufacturing operations, is working to build its customer base in Taiwan and Japan, according to company CEO Doug Grose. Grose, who visited Taiwan on March 24, said in an interview...

GPU will continue to grow for another 15 years: Q&A with Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO of Nvidia
Tuesday 23 September 2008
Digitimes recently had a chance to talk to Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO of Nvidia to discuss recent issues surrounding the chip design giant.

Interview with Dr. Chii-Ming Yiin, Taiwan's Minister of Economic Affairs
Tuesday 10 June 2008
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...

Trends in storage, the economy and network: Comments from LSI CEO Abhi Talwalkar
Monday 9 June 2008
LSI was founded in 1981 as an ASIC company that did service functions, which meant basically it turned others companies' IP into silicon. The company did that for more than 20 years, but in the years from 2000-2005 it seems...

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...

Thursday 24 January 2008
Digitimes recently spoke with Jin Nakayama, general manager for OV Unit of Planning Department under Casio Computer about Casio's development strategies for its digital cameras and business outlook for the segment. Casio...

Surviving in competitive markets: Q&A with Tony Wong, president of PC Partner
Wednesday 8 August 2007
With Taiwan-based first-tier motherboard and graphics card makers accounting for over 90% of worldwide motherboard shipments, it is easy to assume that Taiwan has also conquered the graphics card market. But in fact, Hong...

Controlling your future: Q&A with Arthur Lin, CEO of the Sunix Group
Thursday 12 July 2007
In a world where everything from banking machines to information kiosks to traffic lights are all interconnected, communication links and the systems that link them all together are a vital glue to this networked infrastructure...

Blue-laser to take up 20-30% of ODD sales volume in 2010, Q&A with Masayuki Kozuka of Matsushita
Wednesday 20 June 2007
In light of emerging global demand for blue-laser – Blu-ray Disc (BD) and/or HD DVD – optical disc drives (ODDs) Matsushita Electric Industrial (Panasonic) has established its Storage Device Business Strategy...

Friday 8 June 2007
With AMD and Intel pushing their quad-core server processors at Computex Taipei 2007, Digitimes got a chance to talk to Boyd Davis, general manager of server platform group marketing of Intel to discuss Intel's plans and...

Intel discusses Bearlake: Q&A with Richard Malinowski, vice president, chipset group, Intel
Friday 8 June 2007
With the launch of its 3 series chipset (Bearlake) at Computex Taipei 2007, Intel expects to see the chipset ramp to become the mainstream standard in 2007, while introducing new features such as Turbo Memory (Robson) into...

Computex 2007: Apacer showcasing "True" SATA SSD
Thursday 7 June 2007
Apacer has placed SSD applications in the spotlight at its booth (D126, D136, D225, D235, Hall 1) at Computex Taipei 2007. While most major memory applications makers are featuring SSD solutions at the show, having a "true"...

Friday 18 May 2007
During the recent introduction of AMD's new Quad-Core Opteron (Barcelona) series CPUs for the server market, Patrick Patla, director, server/workstation division of AMD sat down with Digitimes to give an exclusive...

Thursday 17 May 2007
During the recent introduction of AMD's new Quad-Core Opteron (Barcelona) series CPUs for the server market, Patrick Patla, director, server/workstation division of AMD sat down with Digitimes to give an exclusive...

Pioneer to promote blue-laser ODDs by offering BD Combo instead of BD/HD DVD Dual
Thursday 19 April 2007
Pioneer on April 17 introduced its Blu-ray Disc (BD) Combo drive, BDC-S02, in Beijing, China, and Digitimes interviewed Shannon Yu, Pioneer's ODD sales general manager for Asia Pacific region, at the introductory press...

Monday 16 April 2007
John A Antone, vice president of the Sales and Marketing Group and general manager for Intel Corporation in Asia-Pacific, recently spoke with DigiTimes about the company's promotion of low-cost small form factor...

Thursday 5 April 2007
George Ng, Sun Microsystem's director of sales and service for the Greater China region thinks that optical circuits will be key in the development of next-generation processors and that virtualization technology will become...

AMD keeping open platform strategy: Q&A with sales and marketing vice president Jochen Polster
Thursday 1 March 2007
AMD's recent launch of its 690-series chipset is the company's first launch of an integrated chipset since it acquired graphics chip maker ATI and represents a new milestone for the company. DigiTimes had an opportunity...

More consolidation expected in motherboard industry: Q&A with ECS vice president David Liu, part two
Tuesday 6 February 2007
Riding on the wings of the golden era of Taiwan's motherboard industry, Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) saw its share price soar to over NT$200 by the beginning of 2002, while the company's revenues continued climbing...

Connecting your HD devices: Q&A with HDMI Licensing VP Steve Venuti
Tuesday 23 January 2007
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...

'Nvidia only' strategy pays off for XFX: Q&A with Pine Technology chairman Michael Chiu
Friday 19 January 2007
When Nvidia launched its GeForce 8800, the whole camp of Nvidia camp graphics card makers was elated, and among them was Pine Technology, which markets graphics cards under the XFX brand name. Based in Hong Kong, Pine has...

KYE to operate brand products for 100 years and beyond: Q&A with OBM general manager Alex Lee
Friday 12 January 2007
Taiwan-based KYE Systems has been marketing a variety of computer peripherals, including mice, keyboards, speakers and webcams, gaming devices and other items, under its own Genius brand, in addition to fulfilling OEM/ODM...

Friday 29 December 2006
Almost three years after it debuted at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF), wireless USB remains one of the most promising implementations of ultra wideband (UWB) short-range radio technology, but it is still waiting for its...
- 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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- DIGIEVER partnership with EverFocus for better professional network surveillance solutions
- Advantech Introduces New 18" and 21" Widescreen Multitouch Panel PCs
- Digital Network Fuels Opportunities in Vehicle Surveillance Market
- Advantech Redefines Entry Level Network Application Platforms
- WD shipping world's first 5 mm 2.5-inch hard drive
- Embracing the New Generation Intel Atom Family with DDR3 Memory Support
- Got The Message? Ensuring efficient and reliable delivery of content across a mission critical digital signage network
- Emb' Store On-Demand Software Service for Embedded Computing
- Efficient Network Management for Digital Signage
- Design Benefits of the MI/O Extension Solution
- ATO Solution Co., Ltd. to launch 1Gb SLC NAND Flash after 256Mb/512Mb mass production for the first time in Fab-less industry
- Chilisin's miniature power inductor in 0603/0805 sizes
- Chilisin introduces Thin-film chip inductor 0201 size
- Chilisin at 2012 electronics Munich A5/159 & 260
- Chilisin sunken-type molded power inductor for MXM Graphic application

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...
- Trends and shipment forecast for 2H 2012 tablet market
Digitimes Research remains conservative about the prospects for the period, with half-year shipments projected to reach 49.18 million units and whole-year shipments being revised downward to 88.69 million units.
- Trends in the China video market
In addition to strong potential video content demand in China, the market has developed rapidly due to government intervention and delays in establishing copyright protections.
- 4Q12 trends in the Greater China touch panel industry
In the second half of 2012, the market focus is on the iPhone 5, which uses in-cell touch screen technology. Due to the integration of display panels and touch panel functions, the high technological threshold will mean Taiwan touch panel makers are unable to enter the iPhone supply chain.
















