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What works in telecom can work in high-speed manufacturing: Leveraging IoT with Vitesse
Until recently, Vitesse Semiconductor saw its core market as being the carrier Ethernet market, particularly what it calls the IP edge, which is anything from...
Smart solutions for smart devices: How Carry is expanding its business model
Carry Technology, a leading developer and manufacturer of portable multimedia and storage products, will highlight its new Apotop products, including its wireless...
Gigabyte pushing top-end products through Aorus: Q&A with Vincent Liu, Gigabyte director of sales
Although not best known for its notebooks, Gigabyte Technology has been operating in the notebook business for quite a while and entered the gaming notebook business...
Oaxis in pursuit of the 'X' element: Q&A with Gajah CEO Yong Guan Jer
Singapore-based Gajah has been an ODM/OEM since it was set up in 2004 to make electronic devices, such as e-book readers. But in 2010 it launched its own Oaxis...
The challenges: Digitimes Research director Joanne Chien on the changing Taiwan role in the global supply chain
Historically, Computex has played a key role in the global IT ecosystem, complementing other tradeshows that appear in different markets at different times of...
Applied Micro outlines hyperscale challenges from data center and cloud infrastructure: Interview with Dr Paramesh Gopi, CEO of Applied Micro Circuits Corporation
With more data center services and cloud solutions have been created on the way, experts are concerned that electricity consumption inside the massive data centers...
Handling the ever-increasing demand for wireless: Q&A with Broadcom VP Rahul Patel
With the IT market shifting from PCs to mobile devices, there has been an increased appetite for support for Wi-Fi and wireless technologies such as Bluetooth...
Tapping the power of mobile devices through connectivity: Silicon Image on HDMI, MHL and Wireless HD
Silicon Image is a semiconductor IP company whose expertise is connecting boxes to displays. The company develops semiconductor IP based on industry standards...
Consolidation to continue in the MEMS microphone industry: Q&A with Akustica CEO Horst Muenzel
More and more players have made inroads into the MEMS microphone industry to cash in on the rising demand brought up by the popularity of smartphones.
Explaining the Chaiwan model for the mobile device supply chain: Q&A with Digitimes Research director Joanne Chien
While Digitimes is known as a media outlet, the company also includes a business unit that solely focuses on market research. Run independently from the Digitimes...
The 4G opportunity: Q&A with executives from major Taiwan telecom carriers
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), Taiwan Mobile (TWM) and Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET), the three largest mobile telecom carriers in Taiwan, have been awarded frequency...
Time ripe for development of smart peripherals: Q&A with Arima Communications president Owen Chen
Smartphone ODM Arima Communications has decided to expand its product lines to include tablets, smart accessories and other new products, optimizing its platform...
Firefox OS aimed to become alternative to Android, says Mozilla vice president
While Mozilla has offered Firefox OS for less than two years, the operating system based on HTML5 and Web technologies has been adopted by a number of smartphone...
Lose the switch, lose the loss: Cavendish Kinetics leverages MEMS for tunable RF components
Cavendish Kinetics recently announced the availability of production samples of its tunable RF capacitors to key strategic partners. Shipped as a chip scale package...
Ethernet access devices, where the enterprise meets the carrier: Q&A with Vitesse marketing director Uday Mudoi
Eight years ago, the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) defined the first carrier class networks and services for Ethernet, as well as specifying attributes such as quality...
Enabling IoT through Wi-Fi and Bluetooth: Q&A with Broadcom marketing director Jeff Baer
Just before Computex 2013, Digitimes spoke with Jeff Baer, marketing director for Embedded Wireless, Wireless Connectivity Combo at Broadcom to find out more about...
It's not just about silicon: Intel VP Jason Chen talks up the company's more veritical approach with ultra-mobile devices
Jason LS Chen is a vice president in the Sales and Marketing Group at Intel and is responsible for all sales and marketing activities for Intel in Taiwan. As country...
Make good products and growth will come naturally: Q&A with Gigabyte notebook team
Despite being one of the market leaders in the motherboard and graphics card industries, Gigabyte Technology is relatively unknown as a notebook player. Digitimes...
Bringing 802.11ac to the mainstream: Broadcom VP Rahul Patel talks up 5G Wi-Fi
Demand for video, especially high-definition video, is pushing players in the mobile telecom industry to continually seek new ways to increase bandwidth. On the...
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 market, Broadcom's mobile solutions have found their...
Living on the IP edge: Q&A with Vitesse CTO Martin Nuss
Vitesse Semiconductor has been a major player in the semiconductor industry for the past 28 years, from its role in the telecom area in the heyday of SONET/SDH...
Huawei to push into enterprise market: Q&A with Jawee Sun, IT product line marketing director of Huawei enterprise BG
China-based Huawei Technologies has always been known for its telecom technologies and equipment, but seeing the rise of cloud computing, the company has also...
The challenge for mobile telecom carriers: Q&A with FET president Yvonne Li
Along with increasing use of smartphones, competition among mobile telecom carriers is changing and they are faced with a big challenge to transform themselves...
Addition through subtraction, turning software installation on its head: Q&A with Joshua Shapiro
One of the key issues historically on the Wintel (Windows-based PCs) side of the PC industry has been the lack of cooperation between software providers and PC...
