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...

Asustek Computer's recent launch of the low-cost Eee PC has prompted a wide range of opinions across the market. Some say the Eee PC sacrificed too many functions and performance for its price, while others are optimistic...

Hewlett-Packard (HP), the world's number one PC vendor, has made substantial gains in the global consumer notebook market and the company is also making headway in the business notebook segment with its new strategy targeting...

With Taiwan-based first-tier motherboard and graphics card makers accounting for over 90% of worldwide motherboard shipments, it is easy to assume that Taiwan has also conquered the graphics card market. But in fact, Hong...

In a world where everything from banking machines to information kiosks to traffic lights are all interconnected, communication links and the systems that link them all together are a vital glue to this networked infrastructure...

In light of emerging global demand for blue-laser – Blu-ray Disc (BD) and/or HD DVD – optical disc drives (ODDs) Matsushita Electric Industrial (Panasonic) has established its Storage Device Business Strategy...

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...

With AMD and Intel pushing their quad-core server processors at Computex Taipei 2007, Digitimes got a chance to talk to Boyd Davis, general manager of server platform group marketing of Intel to discuss Intel's plans and...

With the launch of its 3 series chipset (Bearlake) at Computex Taipei 2007, Intel expects to see the chipset ramp to become the mainstream standard in 2007, while introducing new features such as Turbo Memory (Robson) into...

Apacer has placed SSD applications in the spotlight at its booth (D126, D136, D225, D235, Hall 1) at Computex Taipei 2007. While most major memory applications makers are featuring SSD solutions at the show, having a "true"...

With many IT players expanding their business by acquiring others over the past few years, TH Tung, the vice chairman of Asustek Computer and chairman of Kinsus Interconnect Technology commented that there is no principle...

During the recent introduction of AMD's new Quad-Core Opteron (Barcelona) series CPUs for the server market, Patrick Patla, director, server/workstation division of AMD sat down with Digitimes to give an exclusive...

During the recent introduction of AMD's new Quad-Core Opteron (Barcelona) series CPUs for the server market, Patrick Patla, director, server/workstation division of AMD sat down with Digitimes to give an exclusive...

Pioneer on April 17 introduced its Blu-ray Disc (BD) Combo drive, BDC-S02, in Beijing, China, and Digitimes interviewed Shannon Yu, Pioneer's ODD sales general manager for Asia Pacific region, at the introductory press...

John A Antone, vice president of the Sales and Marketing Group and general manager for Intel Corporation in Asia-Pacific, recently spoke with DigiTimes about the company's promotion of low-cost small form factor...

Best known as a designer of Bluetooth chips, CSR also does WiFi, with its UniFi chip. The Cambridge, UK, based company has now added a multimedia applications processor (MAP) to the UniFi solution for a low-cost VoIP-enabled...

George Ng, Sun Microsystem's director of sales and service for the Greater China region thinks that optical circuits will be key in the development of next-generation processors and that virtualization technology will become...

AMD's recent launch of its 690-series chipset is the company's first launch of an integrated chipset since it acquired graphics chip maker ATI and represents a new milestone for the company. DigiTimes had an opportunity...

Formerly a senior advisor to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and research director of the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE) at the University of California at Berkeley,...

Established in 1973, the government-sponsored Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) is known around the globe as Taiwan's largest technology research and development center. Commonly associated with the Taiwan...

Riding on the wings of the golden era of Taiwan's motherboard industry, Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) saw its share price soar to over NT$200 by the beginning of 2002, while the company's revenues continued climbing...

California-based Global Locate, a producer of A-GPS (assisted-GPS) semiconductors and software, recently caught quite some attention when it announced that its Hammerhead GPS solution and software was adopted by TomTom's...

The High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI), jointly developed by Sony, Hitachi, Thomson (RCA), Philips, Matsushita (Panasonic), Toshiba and Silicon Image, is enjoying fast growing popularity. HDMI Licensing, the agent...

When Nvidia launched its GeForce 8800, the whole camp of Nvidia camp graphics card makers was elated, and among them was Pine Technology, which markets graphics cards under the XFX brand name. Based in Hong Kong, Pine has...

Taiwan-based KYE Systems has been marketing a variety of computer peripherals, including mice, keyboards, speakers and webcams, gaming devices and other items, under its own Genius brand, in addition to fulfilling OEM/ODM...