Formerly a senior advisor to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and research director of the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE) at the University of California at Berkeley,...

The development of 3G and HSPA (High Speed Packet Access) technologies still remains the current focus of the mobile communications industry, and chances are low that WiMAX will become a mainstream standard since it is...

Although sales of pre-N (pre-802.11n) products in the retail channel were slower than expected in the third quarter of this year, increasing demand for pre-N modules from notebooks and broadband CPE (consumer premises equipment)...

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...

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...

Thanks to its frequent appearances on the stage of IDF (Intel Developer Forum) conferences, WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) technology is often considered as a wireless solution that mainly depends...

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...

Global Positioning System (GPS) technology now has a wide range of applications in consumer electronics, thanks to major reductions in the size of chipsets and improvements in signal reception, according to Michael Canning,...

Before the celebration of D-Link's 20th anniversary on June 20, DigiTimes had an opportunity to interview Ken Kao, the chairman of the network equipment provider. According to Kao, though D-Link has succeeded in grabbing...

China's IGRS (Intelligent Grouping and Resource Sharing) and Taiwan-based C-Media Electronics on June 5 launched in Beijing a sound card and related products they co-developed for China's online music market. The products...

DigiTimes.com recently had an opportunity to talk with Intel technology strategist Jeff Ravencraft, chairman and president of the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF), about Certified Wireless USB, its relationship to wired...

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....

In September 2005, it was announced that Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab, a leading Russian developer of anti-virus (AV) software solutions, was partnering with Taiwan-based Zyxel Communications to have its anti-virus products...

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...

When wireless LAN (802.11) first began to see significant market take-up, any number of IC companies tried to compete, only to discover that it was tough going. Many of the original contenders in wireless LAN dropped out,...

Embedded processors are now central to the converged environment that many in the IT and electronics industries are calling the digital home. Noam Shendar, director of Strategic Marketing for MIPS Technologies, argues that...

While industry experts have always pointed out that the Intel-backed universal serial bus (USB) is less versatile than its I/O rival, IEEE1394, USB 2.0 is now delivering up to 480Mbps, and clearly it’s with us to...

Early last month, Philips Polymer Vision, a business unit within Philips Technology Incubator, Royal Philips Electronics, revealed its Concept Readius rollable display at the Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) in Berlin,...

Despite initial skepticism from some quarters, Bluetooth has established a growing market presence and continues to assert its viability. One interesting development is the proposed adoption, by the Bluetooth SIG, of Ultra...

Zyxel Communications, a Taiwan-based broadband-equipment specialist, is ranked as the largest networking equipment maker in Taiwan in terms of market value, a total of about NT$30 billion (US$896 million), even though the...

Alcatel Shanghai Bell (ASB), a joint venture signed in May 2002 between France-based Alcatel and the Chinese government, is already a major production base for Alcatel’s products, including fixed-line telecom equipment,...

Juniper Networks has made significant inroads into China’s telecom market over the past two years, including successfully winning a large contract to help build China Telecom's next-generation backbone network, known...

Taiwan companies, which boast a strong capability in the manufacture of IT hardware products, are likely to become important partners for Skype Technologies as the company looks to broaden its application software to IT...