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...

Hong Kong-based Hightech Information System (HIS), which specializes in ATI-based graphics cards in the channel gaming market, disagrees with the notion that small-scale companies, especially second- and third-tier players,...

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...

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...

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...

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 Elsa Technology continues to build on its strength in the graphics cards sector, it is also expanding its product lines to include the multimedia sector and is focusing on establishing a firm foothold in the Greater...

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...

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....

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).

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,...

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...

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...

Jonney Shih, chairman and CEO of Asustek Computer, recently had a chance to talk to DigiTimes about recent actions in line with its business enhancement strategy. The motherboard giant recently acquired...

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.

A long-term fixture in Taiwan’s motherboard industry, Shuttle phased out its motherboard business at the end of 2004, and now focuses its business around its XPC small-form-factor (SFF) PCs. DigiTimes.com recently...

On the Friday night before Computex, DigiTimes.com managed to catch ATI CEO Dave Orton on the phone to talk about the upcoming show, industry trends and developments at the company.

Established in 1984, Chun Yun Electronics was one of many Taiwan-based display and TV set makers until Jack Ko, co-founder of Gigabyte Technology, and his team joined the company to lead it to the motherboard market. The...

Second-tier motherboard maker DFI anticipates its industrial-use ACP (applied computing platform) motherboards will drive its overall shipments for 2005. DigiTimes recently interviewed the company’s chairman, YC Lu...

For Taiwan’s motherboard industry there is definitely no company more important than Intel. While other processor and chipset makers, as well as other component suppliers and valued customers play their important...

Earlier this year, US-based DRAM manufacturer Micron announced industry-first fully buffered dual in-line memory modules (FB-DIMM) using DDR2-667 components. DigiTimes.com spoke with John Stroozas, director of engineering...

Hector de Ruiz, chairman, president and CEO of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), was in Taipei last week, to tout the company’s technology edge in the development of 64-bit CPUs, and to strengthen its cooperation with...