Working closely with foundry UMC, Faraday Technology is generally acknowledged to be Taiwan’s leading design service house. Faraday has seen success in an intensely competitive industry, and the company is determined...

Internet radio, while a bit of a contradiction in terms, is catching on fast. Not surprisingly, devices are now coming into the market that free the listener from constantly being at a seat in front of the PC while enjoying...

The success of the Apple iPod has brought home to a mass market that hard disk drives are now considered a viable form of portable mass storage. And after all, millions of users have been happily trusting their data to...

Longhorn will be released commercially in the second half of 2006, and will include modifications that will help reduce, if not all together eliminate, phishing by engineering the mail client to recognize a phishing email...

Texas Instruments has a dominant position in digital signal processing (DSP) technology, reflected in its leading role as chip provider to the mobile phone industry, and that places the company in a strong position to compete...

In terms of both the installed and the developer base, Java is now the leading software enabler for virtual execution environments, and that means ARM is involved in the enhancement and development of the Java platform...

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...

Part of daily life in Taiwan and well-known in the OEM/ODM business, Tatung is using this year’s Computex to attract buyers’ eyes with its blade servers and tablet PCs. DigiTimes.com spoke to David Wang, product...

Taiwan boasts a fair number of fabless IC design houses, and several have emerged as significant players in the microcontroller and consumer-IC markets. One of these is Elan Microelectronics, based in the Hsinchu Science...

The need for mass data storage exploded in the 1990s, and one of the companies that rode the crest of that wave was US based EMC. One of the most consistently successful companies in the mass data storage market, EMC seemed...

A-Data Technology was founded in 2001 and three years later was named fourth-largest third-party DRAM-module manufacturer by iSuppli. Then, A-Data entered the top-three in the world, on the basis of 2004 revenues, following...

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...

Lagging compared to some of its European neighbors in the IT field over the last decade, France is now trying to pick up its position and the government is encouraging foreign companies to increase investments. Established...

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...

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...

PC hardware and components suppliers are now involved in a rapid re-orientation towards consumer electronics, where it’s hoped that the Media Center PC will give a much-needed boost to the global IT industry. The...

What do European IT companies see in Asia? More partners or more competitors? What do they think in Europe about Asia’s role in innovations? What can they say about Taiwan? Recently DigiTimes.com had an opportunity...

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...

DigiTimes.com talked with Jeff Hsieh, chief executive officer of DRAM-module maker GeIL about survival strategies for small DRAM-module makers. Many in the industry expect this year to be tough, but Hsieh remains optimistic...

John Mathews, PhD, Professor of Management at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management (New South Wales, Australia), has published widely on the rise of the IT, electronics and displays industries in East Asia, in such...

A subsidiary of Taiwan TV maker Teco Electric & Machinery, Teco Optronics entered the OLED market for just under NT$1 billion in capital (approximately equivalent to US$32.5 million). According to president Chan Wang,...

Brian Jarrard, developer of the Halo 2 online game and lead community development manager at Bungie.net, was in Taipei last week to attend the 2005 Taipei Game Show held from February 24-28 and had a brief chat with DigiTimes...

AtGames, a Bermuda-based game-software distributor, signed a distribution agreement with game-software giant Sega earlier this year, according to a Sega press...

Having boosted its capacity by 50% with a new plant in China, Kingmax Semiconductor is hoping to increase its share of the DRAM-module market. But this strategy poses plenty of questions. When can we really expect DDR2...

Compared to the previous two years, when the market demonstrated double-digit growth, an expected slowdown this year could mean a tough time for DRAM-module makers. For small players, it may be a challenge to survive. DigiTimes.com...