Inventec Appliances is an ODM maker rolling out MP3 players, GPS devices, smartphones, VoIP phones, and 3G data cards, and yet it is also the vendor of OKWAP-brand handsets. In addition, the company has recently unveiled...

Demand for telecom equipment in the North Asia region is expected to stage a major upturn in the fourth quarter of 2009 as carriers in the region are beginning to deploy their LTE (Long Term Evolution) and GPON (Gigabit...

Acer aims to ship 2-2.5 million own-brand smartphones in 2010 and the company expects its annual shipments to increase to 20 million units by 2012-2014, making the company a top-five global smartphone vendor with a 6-7%...

While the traditional WLAN market has been sluggish due to a slump in the economy, chip specialist Broadcom recently noted that the company has seen a rebound in its traditional WLAN businesses for PCs, notebooks and routers...

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...

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...

Network video shows potential in a growing range of industries, from surveillance and security, to health care, industrial automation, and transportation. This is largely thanks to the boom in image sensor technology and...

During the recent Freescale Technology Forum (FTF) in the US, company senior VP, chief sales and marketing officer Henri Richard noted that one of the great pleasures he has had since joining Freescale last year was to...

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...

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...

Just before Broadcom spoke at the Computex CE Summit on June 4, Digitimes had the opportunity to chat with Michael Hurlson, vice president and general manager for the Home and Wireless Networking Business Unit at Broadcom...

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...

John Hsuan, vice chairman of United Microelectronic Corporation (UMC) and concurrently chairman of Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL), is a 30-year veteran of the Taiwan IT industry and has witnessed numerous shifts...

Ho Mei-yueh, chairperson of Taiwan's Council for Economic Planning and Development (CEPD), helped initiate the development of the WiMAX industry in Taiwan in 2002. Ho played an important role in the recent signing of a...

Having an early presence in the China TD-SCDMA chip solution market, NXP Semiconductors reiterates its confidence about the penetration of the TD-SCDMA standard in China in 2008 amid anticipated positive catalysts stemming...

Digitimes recently had the opportunity to talk with Greg Delagi, senior vice president and general manager of the wireless terminals business unit of Texas Instruments (TI), to hear his comments about the latest handset...

Nvidia's recent introduction of the APX 2500 applications processor indicates that the company is getting serious about its offerings in the smartphone market. However, the company faces stiff competition from established...

Following the acquisition of the US-based global positioning system (GPS) fabless company GloNav in late December of 2007, NXP Semiconductors...

Taiwan-based network-equipment vendor D-Link has been promoting its own-brand products worldwide for over 10 years. It now holds a 23.8% share in the SOHO and SMB (small and medium business) segments of the global network-equipment...

Google's announcement of Android in early November brought a lot of press to the idea of an open handset platform. Such an idea, however, is not new and OpenMoko is one company that has been publicly pursuing such a goal...

By strengthening ties with number-one handset vendor Nokia in 3G handset chip solutions in August 2007, STMicroelectronics raised eyebrows...

With feature-phones drawing more consumer attention helped along by high-profile products such as Apple's iPhone and the speculated gPhone from Google, chipmakers for 3G and 3.5G phones are seeing growing opportunities,...

With a vision of the potential of the mobile TV market, Sangwoo Han, CTO of South Korea-based Future Communications IC (FCI), a subsidiary of Silicon Motion Technology, recently visited Taiwan and spoke about the advancement...

Although the promotion of MediaFLO as a standard for mobile TV broadcasting by Qualcomm was lagging behind other technologies such as DVB-H and DMB in the beginning, commercial MediaFLO broadcasts have begun in the US and...

VoIP telephony is increasingly being adopted in use around the world and Wi-Fi handsets are playing an ever larger role in this sector. Milos Djokovic, CEO and president of Zi Corporation, a company that specializes in...