Lite-On Semiconductor, a Taiwan-based vendor of CMOS image-sensors and other discrete ICs, has begun volume shipments of its 1.3-megapixel CMOS image-sensor modules, made using a chip-on-board (COB) process, for camera-equipped...

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...

In Taiwan, a handful of companies, including panel and optical-engine suppliers, are in the process of establishing a supply chain for TVs based on liquid-crystal on silicon (LCOS) microdisplays. Prokia Technology is one...

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,...

Some in the displays industry see Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCOS) technology rather as a gardener looks at hardy perennials. Interest comes and goes as successive waves of corporate executives first see LCOS, with a gleam...

Farhad Rostamian, the strategic marketing director of Micron Technology, explained to DigiTimes in a recent interview how he believes that more applications are going to help boost demand for CMOS image sensors over...

Si-chung Chang is chairman of several TFT LCD-related companies in Taiwan and China, including color filter (CF) maker Sintek Photronic, backlight-module maker Helix Technology, Global Display Technology (Suzhou) and semiconductor...

TFT LCD looks firmly entrenched as the dominant flat-panel technology, but in fact the displays industry is keen to find a technology that delivers better performance – and, crucially, at lower cost. Alternative technologies...

Color STN (CSTN)- and TFT-LCD panels stand a good chance of becoming the mainstream handset panels in 2005, thanks to promotions from international handset makers, and CSTN technology is expected to become the major choice...

Toppoly Optoelectronics was the first Taiwan-based company to invest heavily in the production of LTPS (low-temperature polysilicon) TFT-LCD panels. Recently, the company decided to focus on small-to-medium-size panel production,...

Recently DigiTimes had an opportunity to talk with C.S. Yang, director of the LTPS division at Taiwan's AU Optronics (AUO). Currently, the company is considered to be the world's number-three producer of TFT LCD-based display...

Recently, on the occasion of a business trip to Taiwan, DigiTimes had the opportunity to talk with UK-based CRLO Displays, which has acquired assets in F-LCOS microdisplay technology, following, in particular, the demise...

Ligitek Electronics, a Taiwan-based LED testing and packaging company, saw its gross margins rise from less than 25% in the first half of this year to 27-28% in the third quarter, on the successful performance of its new...

DigiTimes recently had the opportunity to speak with JJ Lih, Director of the OLED Division at AUO (AU Optronics), one of a handful of companies now fabricating flat-display panels in Taiwan. In particular, Lih outlined...

Radiant Opto-Electronics, the second-largest TFT LCD backlight-module maker in Taiwan, is currently shipping samples to Samsung Electronics. Once it receives approval from the South Korea-based company, Radiant will become...

During a pre-seminar meeting (UK Development in Flat Panel Displays 2004), five display experts from the UK talked to the Taiwan press about their cooperation with companies in Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and possibly China,...

DigiTimes recently had the opportunity to talk with Robert Chen, senior vice president, Marketing Center, RiTdisplay Corporation, one of the three or four companies in Taiwan that are pioneering OLED display technology...

The US-based International Trade Commission (ITC) recently announced that Taiwan-based MStar Semiconductor, Media Reality Technologies (MRT) and Trumpion Microelectronics all infringed an LCD-controller IC-related patent...

With Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) gaining operational control of Global Unichip in 2003, the disorder among members of the Design Center Alliance (DCA) was finally settled. Jim Lai, COO and president...

Competition in polarizers is heating up! Japan-based Nitto Denko, the world’s top polarizer maker, recently finished building a complete polarizer plant in the Central Taiwan Science Park (CTSP). This plant just happens...

Kenmos Technology, a Taiwan-based TFT LCD backlight module maker, is a major supplier for Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO), Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT), Quanta Display and HannStar Display. DigiTimes interviewed chairman...

Following a recent interview with James Clappin, general manager of Corning Display Technologies, DigiTimes interviewed...

Himax International, Taiwan’s number two LCD driver fabless IC design company, partly owned by Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO), is reaping the benefits of a hot market while struggling to meet demand. Himax is expecting...

The board of directors of US-based Corning recently approved the company’s plan to build a new glass manufacturing plant at Central Taiwan Science Park (CTSP). DigiTimes interviewed James P. Clappin, general manager...

Novatek Microelectronics, Taiwan’s biggest LCD driver IC design house, is expecting product prices to continue rising amid tightening capacity at United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC). Novatek spokesman David...