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Friday 16 June 2006
Large-size panel prices have fallen at a faster than expected rate while panel makers have trimmed their shipment forecasts in the second quarter. DigiTimes.com recently had the opportunity to meet with Sweta Dash, director...

Where is the LCD TV mainstream heading: An interview with DisplaySearch president Ross Young
Thursday 25 May 2006
Ross Young, the founder and president of DisplaySearch, recently spoke with DigiTimes about this year's outlook for the TFT LCD industry, the competition between Taiwan-based and Korean-based panel makers and the fierce...

Rapid progress in P-OLEDs: Q&A with Terry Nicklin and Ian Chao of CDT, part four
Friday 12 May 2006
The Cambridge, UK, based CDT is a pioneer of solution-processable polymer materials for OLED displays, and the company advocates all the technical advantages of OLED displays, particularly in comparison with TFT-LCD, coupled...

ANT Software: it remains to be seen how Microsoft and Cisco IPTV solutions will evolve
Thursday 11 May 2006
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...

Curtain's up for digital home entertainment: Q&A with Oregan VP Milya Timergaleyeva, part two
Friday 24 March 2006
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...

Wider gamut, brighter displays: Q&A with Genoa Color Technologies, part four
Friday 3 March 2006
Start-up Genoa Color Technologies has developed technology that significantly enhances the picture produced by a wide variety of display types, including TFT LCD, front- and rear-projection systems, and color-sequential...

Thursday 23 February 2006
Info-Tek Corporation was founded in 1990 as a contract manufacturer for motherboards and interface cards and is invested by motherboard maker Gigabyte. The company has production centers in Taiwan and China, and is best...

Q&A with projector vendor Optoma
Thursday 29 December 2005
Projector vendor Optoma, a wholly owned subsidiary of projector manufacturer Coretronic, expects to ship about 50,000 units in the Asia region this year, up from 15,000-20,000 units in 2004. Optoma mainly focuses on Taiwan,...

An interview with H.C. Ho, president of ViewSonic International
Thursday 17 November 2005
Amid a boom in demand for LCD monitors and LCD TVs, vendors still face many challenges managing their inventory and grabbing market share. DigiTimes had a chance to talk with HC Ho, ViewSonic president of global product...

Q&A with Epson executive vice president Toshio Kimura
Wednesday 12 October 2005
Japan-based Seiko Epson is a leading company in imagining technology, robotics, precision machinery and electronics. DigiTimes had chance to interview Toshio Kimura, executive vice president of Seiko Epson, to talk about...

Epson: High resolution and low prices are the future trends for projectors
Friday 7 October 2005
Seiko Epson recently released several new LCD projectors in Taiwan, with one of the models using its newest “D5” panel. DigiTimes had the opportunity to talk with Akira Suzuki, director of LCD Business Development...

An industry in flux: Q&A with the president of LCD maker AUO
Wednesday 28 September 2005
Taiwan-based panel makers have begun swinging from losses to profitability, and AU Optronics (AUO) has led the way by already turning profits in the second quarter of this year. However, although other makers such as Chi...

Managing distribution is the key to success: An interview with LCD TV maker Kolin
Tuesday 27 September 2005
Taiwan-based home appliance maker Kolin recently decided to begin selling its Olevia-branded LCD TV products to Europe and South America, after a successful marketing experience in the US market. With about 180,000 LCD...

A different type of TV: Q&A with RPTV maker Inshon
Wednesday 14 September 2005
While market research indicates that rear-projection TVs are currently seeing a wave of renewed market enthusiasm, particularly in North America, models were not noticeably in evidence at Computex Taipei, in June. One interesting...

Syntax: Brillian merger will not affect relation with Kolin
Monday 5 September 2005
Although US-based Syntax Groups is currently partnered with Taiwan’s Kolin for marketing LCD and LCOS (liquid-crystal-on-silicon) TVs in North America, Syntax was recently merged with Brillian, a US-based LCOS light...

LCOS specialist Brillian claims it’s different from Intel and Philips
Thursday 1 September 2005
Following a series of losses since it was established in the 1980s, Brillian recently announced it will be acquiring Syntax Groups, with a subsidiary called Syntax-Brillian being formed. Brillian will continue developing...

Interview with Pioneer High Fidelity president Nobuyuki Kokubo
Monday 29 August 2005
Facing aggressive competition in the flat panel TV market, Pioneer, the leading (PDP) plasma display panel supplier in the world, has been considering its sales and marketing strategy to maintain its leadership. DigiTimes...

Printed TVs at your store soon? Q&A with Ian Chao of CDT
Tuesday 16 August 2005
The keenest competition in the global television market is the race for the next generation of flat-panel technology, and leading the charge is the UK-based Cambridge Display Technology (CDT), a pioneer of polymer-OLED...

BenQ CEO confident of Siemens deal
Tuesday 12 July 2005
BenQ’s agreement to buy Siemens AG’s money-losing Mobile Phones unit has been greeted mostly with skepticism and pessimism in the business world. The media and many market watchers have warned that BenQ will...

On the shoulder of the giant: An interview with TFT LCD panel maker Innolux
Thursday 7 July 2005
Innolux Display began having its stock traded on Taiwan’s Emerging Stock Board this week, and although Innolux is the seventh Taiwan-based company to enter the TFT LCD business, it has the advantage of being a subsidiary...

Tatung: flexibility is a key to success
Tuesday 31 May 2005
Founded in 1918, Tatung is one of Taiwan's oldest companies and one of a very few worldwide with a high school and university of the same name. Employing 20,000 people in Taiwan, with around 20% of its stock employee-owned...

A joint venture into uncharted territory: Arcadyan develops wireless products for new markets
Wednesday 27 April 2005
The joint venture known as Arcadyan Technology Corporation came into being in 2003. Its primary goal is the fusion of wireless networking technology, contributed by Taiwan’s Accton Technology Corporation with consumer-oriented...

Tuesday 19 April 2005
On April 1 this year, Japan-based display maker NEC-Mitsubishi Electric Visual Systems, a joint venture between NEC and Mitsubishi Electric, became a wholly-owned subsidiary of NEC. DigiTimes.com had an opportunity to talk...

Clairvoyante talks about brightening the panel
Tuesday 19 April 2005
Clairvoyante, a display technology developer and patent-licensing company in the US, claims panels using its patented PenTile Matrix technology consume less power, are brighter, have a higher contrast ratio, a lower production...

SigmaTel aims to be a total IC solution provider: Q&A with CEO Ron Edgerton
Monday 18 April 2005
SigmaTel, a US-based fabless IC-design firm specializing in controller ICs for MP3 players, anticipates strong demand for its products in the second quarter following a strong performance in the first quarter, according...
- 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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- 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
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- 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
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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...
- 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.
















