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Pursuing polymer optics: Q&A with Christopher Brawley and Gerhard Fehr of Fuji Magnetics
Friday 18 August 2006
Fuji Magnetics, the EMEA (European, Middle East, Africa) headquarter of Fujifilm's recording media division, is perhaps best known in the industry for its line of data media products for data storage and archiving and for...
Discussing the AMD-ATI deal: Q&A with AMD EVP Henri Richard
Tuesday 25 July 2006
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...
Microdisplays go organic: Q&A with Ian Underwood of MED, part three
Tuesday 11 July 2006
The prospect of displays utilizing light-emitting polymers is nothing new. A company such as CDT, for example, has been proposing the inkjet printing of displays based on light-emitting polymers for some time, now. A new...
JSR to strengthen ties with Taiwan LCD makers: Q&A with JSR president Yoshinori Yoshida
Monday 10 July 2006
Japan-based JSR Corporation, a major supplier of color pigment dispersed resists for producing LCD color filters (CFs), recently finished first-stage construction of its new LCD material plant at the Central Taiwan Science-based...
Connecting the home: Q&A with Menno Kleingeld, Philips Semiconductors, part four
Thursday 6 July 2006
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...
TPO aims at top spot in small-to-medium-size panel market in 2006: Q&A with chairman Ray Chen
Thursday 22 June 2006
TPO Displays (formerly Toppoly Optoelectronics) aims to become the world's top small-to-medium-size panel maker by increasing its market share from 12%, currently, to 20% by 2008, indicated company chairman & CEO Ray...
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...
A turning point for Arima Computer: An interview with CEO David Su
Monday 24 April 2006
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...
Talking monitor and notebook panels: An interview with AUO vice president Paul Peng
Friday 14 April 2006
DigiTimes had the chance to interview Paul Peng, AU Optronics (AUO) vice president and general manager of Information Technology Display Business Group, about future developments in the LCD monitor and notebook market,...
Q&A with Sintek: The direction of a CF maker
Tuesday 28 March 2006
With Sintek Photronic recently announcing that the company plans to build a 7.5-generation (7.5G) color filter (CF) plant, while dropping its original plan to construct a 6G CF plant, DigiTimes spoke with Sintek chairman...
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...
Leveraging MEMS for flat-panel displays: Q&A with QMT SVP Greg Heinzinger
Friday 20 January 2006
Qualcomm MEMS Technologies (QMT) was formed following Qualcomm's acquisition of Iridigm Display Corporation in September, 2004. With this acquisition, Qualcomm acquired a technology that unites micro-electro-mechanical...
Silterra's strategy for success: Q&A with Steve Della Rocchetta, EVP, Silterra, part three
Friday 30 December 2005
Despite the attractions of the fabless-plus-foundry model, any foundry hoping to compete in an industry dominated by the likes of UMC and TSMC will need to think carefully about its strategy. In the case of Silterra, whose...
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,...
Three OLED production lines to be completed by 2008: Q&A with Visionox
Friday 2 December 2005
Beijing Visionox Technology, a China-based company playing a role in the global OLED (organic light-emitting diode) industry, has set up China’s first pilot line for OLED production. Dong-Xu Wang (transliterated from...
LEDs lighting the future: Q&A with Biing-jye Lee, president of Epistar
Friday 25 November 2005
Much happened in 2005 for the Taiwan LED industry with companies going through consolidations, a decline in shipments...
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...
Philips Polymer Vision: Mass production of rollable displays set for 2006
Friday 21 October 2005
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,...
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...
- AUO aims at 20% market share for eTP touch panels for notebooks in 2013
- Digitimes Research: US new solar installations may only reach 3.5GW in 2013
- Solar cell prices may increase to US$0.43/W in Taiwan
- Sony Mobile to extend cooperation with ODM firms, says marketing executive
- Senao expanding retail chain in eastern China
- UDE likely to obtain orders from 2 game console vendors
- Lenovo 1Q13 net profit hikes 90% on year
- Phison warns several backend firms of possible patent infringement
- Facebook sets up OCP Taiwan
- Computex 2013: Memory module firms to showcase new SSDs
- Asia to be largest LTE market, says Nokia Siemens Networks greater China head
- ABB to produce PV inverters in South Africa
- TPV Technology suffers 1Q13 net loss of over US$10 million
- Digitimes Research: Seoul Semiconductor may see 2013 revenues up 40.3% on year
- Taiwan April manufacturing production index down, says MOEA
- Polarizer makers under price-cut pressure from clients
- AUO to supply panels for use in 2nd-gen Nexus 7, say sources
- US fab-tool book-to-bill stays above parity, says SEMI
- Intel, MediaTek and Elan taking up 60% of global touchscreen controller market
- HannStar to reach 95% utilization in 2Q13
- Windows 8 expected to take up 5-8% of global tablet shipments in 2013, say Taiwan makers
- Digitimes Research: Global LED tube light shipments to reach 220 million units in 2013
- Nvidia introduces GeForce GTX 780 GPU for gaming
- Quartz component maker TXC expects sales to rise through 4Q13
- Global LCD monitor OEM shipments down 14% on year in 1Q13, says TPV
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- Corning Lotus XT Glass selected for Tianma's LTPS line (May 20) - Company release
- MIT tech turns any surface into a user interface, but it's useless without Google Glass (May 2) - ExtremeTech
- Diamond Pixels: Galaxy S4's unique subpixel arrangement gets a close up (April 30) - Andorid Authority
- Revolutionary display technology can lift the ban on digital billboards (May 8) - EMSNow
- This ain't Foxconn: Inside the factory where Vertu assembles smartphones by hand - Digital Trends
- Amazon buys Liquavista from Samsung, launches digital currency (May 13) - Reuters
- Korea launches touch screen industry forum to help domestic manufacturers grow worldwide (May 8) - The Next Web
- Amazon's rumoured smartphone-with-holograms is an awful idea (May 10) - Wired
- Digitimes Research: LCD monitor shipments from Taiwan makers drop 14.7% in 1Q13
- Digitimes Research: Taiwan small- to medium-size TFT LCD panel shipments to rise nearly 10% in 2Q13
- Digitimes Research: Taiwan LCD TV shipments expected to rise nearly 5% in 2Q13
- Digitimes Research: LED TV to account for 100% of Samsung TV products in 2013
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- Fortrend shipped Turn Key to China first licensing partner
- Merck inaugurates its New Business R&D and Application Lab in Taiwan
- Multi-touch applications in PC and mobile devices
- The opportunities and challenges for Taiwan in the face of multi-platform applications
- Trends and challenges for the development of multiple platforms for mobile devices in 2013
- LSI completes acquisition of SandForce
- Fujitsu introduces ARROWS Z ISW11F au smartphone
- PSCo Technical Distribution partners with Matrox to offer fully integrated turnkey video walls
- Digital Signage Expo 2012 opens conference registration
- Subkarma invited OPTOTECH to take part in the '2011 Taipei World Design Expo'
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Lenovo displays new 10.1-inch tablet at the Mobile World Congress
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- China market: Epson targets 2011 projector shipments to reach 200,000 units
- Projector suppliers find new ground in emerging markets
- Taiwan market: Enterprise models dominate 2Q11 shipments
- ViewSonic announces ultra-portable LED projector line
- Computex 2011: Nvidia introduces wired 3D Vision glasses and new GeForce GPUs
Ultra HD is now the industry name for "4K" resolution
Panel makers are gearing up to produce Full HD applications for high-end smartphones.
LCD TV panel prices have stabilized, with the China TV market reporting strong sales during the October 1 National Day holidays.
Many local and foreign makers, such as AUO, CMI and Corning, are at Touch Taiwan 2012 from August 29-31.
Future developments in the TFT LCD panel industry: Q&A with Innolux chairman
The TFT LCD panel industry is continuing to intensify as market demand is increasing, bringing competition...
The development of OGS products in China: Q&A with Truly chairman
Despite lagging growth in the global economy, smartphone and tablet applications that use one-glass-solution...
The possibilities of Willow glass: Q&A with Corning executives Alan Eusden and Dipak Chowdhury
Corning Glass is one of the world's leading makers in specialty glass. One of its latest products is...
Despite the fact the penetration rate of LED backlight units (BLUs) in TVs has been increasing continuously,...
- 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...
- A glimpse into the e-book reader market - May 2010
In 2008, worldwide e-book reader shipments totaled only 700,000 units, according to Digitimes Research. But demand exploded in 2009 as consumer interests grew...
- Overview of LCD TV market - May 2010
When the economic recession hit at the end of 2008, the LCD TV market seemed to be heading toward a doomsday scenario in 2009; however, demand turned out to be...
- Large-size LCD panel overview - Jun 2007
Global large-size LCD panel market revenues are expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.5% to US$96.2 billion by 2011, up from US$53.5...
- 2H 2012 global TFT panel market forecast
Digitimes Research predicts there will be a total of 389 million large-sized TFT LCD panels shipped in 2H12, with 195 million in the third quarter and 194 million in the fourth quarter - with the total representing a 7.6% increase over the first half of this year.
- 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.