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,...

Despite initial skepticism from some quarters, Bluetooth has established a growing market presence and continues to assert its viability. One interesting development is the proposed adoption, by the Bluetooth SIG, of Ultra...

Mitac International generated revenues of more than NT$46 billion (US$1.4 billion) in the first eight months of 2005, up more than 60% on year. In the first half of 2005, the company shipped 1.8 million GPS-enabled PDAs,...

Arima Optoelectronics, under the Arima Group, was founded in September 1998 and now has three business units – the LED, laser-diode (LD) and lighting system divisions. DigiTimes recently had an opportunity to talk...

Taiwan companies, which boast a strong capability in the manufacture of IT hardware products, are likely to become important partners for Skype Technologies as the company looks to broaden its application software to IT...

Tom Hsiao, the newly appointed president of Motorola Electronics Taiwan, promised to implement Motorola’s successful experience in promotion of handset sales in the Taiwan market to other product segments. During...

Highlighted this year as an innovation that will help a whole new range of devices enter the car market and raise the penetration of the technology itself, Bluetooth car kits are now on the way to broad adoption. However,...

Headquartered in the US and Shanghai, Fabless-IC design firm Spreadtrum Communications was China’s first company to develop GSM/GPRS-based (2G/2.5G) baseband processors, with its first 2.5G chip and module being launched...

BenQ’s agreement to buy Siemens AG’s money-losing Mobile Phones unit has been greeted mostly with skepticism and pessimism in the business world. The media and many market watchers have warned that BenQ will...

Having unveiled the world’s first 802.11a, 802.11a/b and 802.11a/b/g WLAN chips for PC systems, Atheros Communications is now venturing into the mobile and consumer electronics device segments, focusing initially...

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...

The introduction of the ultra-slim Motorola V3 clamshell mobile phone has helped Motorola sharpen its brand recognition, and the product is among the top-10 models in all the major handset markets, including China. Jim...

DigiTimes recently interviewed Shaojun Wei, chairman and CEO of Datang Microelectronics Technology, China’s largest IC design firm, and president of Datang Telecom Technology (DTT), the parent company of the...

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...

Stan Shih, founder of Acer group, thinks BenQ, a former subsidiary known as Acer Communications & Multimedia (ACM), has made an appropriate move by acquiring Siemens’ handset division. Shih explained to DigiTimes...

A spin-out from Lucent Technologies, Agere Systems offers a wide array of chip solutions that at first glance appear bewilderingly diverse. They include solutions for telecom, mobile telephony, storage and networking. Agere...

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...

Motorola is integrating the resources of all of its business units in the Asia-Pacific region and intends to focus on its R&D efforts in Taiwan and China for the upcoming 3G services and technologies, Simon LK Leung,...

Tom Hsiao, general manager of the Taiwan division of Motorola's personal communications sector, recently sat down with DigiTimes to talk about the company's outlook for Push-to-Talk over Cellular (PoC) mobile phone...

Consumer taste can be unpredictable, but one thing is now certain – cameraphones are a big hit with the buying public. One company that managed to anticipate this trend and move in with hot, new design technology...

When Samsung introduced its SPH-V5400 mobile phone featuring a 1.5GB one-inch Cornice Storage Element (SE) in September last year, it was perceived as a significant step towards the mass market marriage of hard disk drives...

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...

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

Silitech, a 60%-owned subsidiary of Lite-On Technology, posted unaudited earnings per share (EPS) of NT$8 in 2004. This year, the handset-keypad specialist plans to enter other handset-component production, such as chassis,...