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...

As a “classical” IDM, with some 50,000 employees, STMicroelectronics is strongly positioned to be a major supplier of electronics for consumer multimedia and the digital home. That’s not to say that “ST”...

Drew Henry, General Manager of Nvidia Platform Products Division, recently sat down with DigiTimes and talked about the prospects for Nvidia’s upcoming integrated chipset series, the C51.

Acer’s aspiration to eventually become the world’s number three PC vendor may have taken a step further. The latest figures compiled by International Data Corporation (IDC) show that Acer enjoyed on-year sales...

ARM (Advanced RISC Machines) continues to turn the soft-IP business model into a success story. Last year saw the company undertake major acquisitions, and this year will see the arrival of a new Cortex applications processor...

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,...

Analog Devices’ Blackfin processor is an unusual design that combines control processing and digital signal processing on the same chip. Jointly developed with Intel, the Blackfin is now being designed into a wide...

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...

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...

Founded in 2002, Empia Technology is an IC-design house focused on USB-supporting system-on-chip (SoC) solutions such as interface engines, flash disk controllers and video bridges. DigiTimes.com talked to Empia’s...

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...

Having created the Flybook brand name, Taiwan’s Dialogue Technology is now targeting the worldwide market with a new concept in mobile computing. The Flybook is a small-size convertible device with an 8.9-inch screen...

When the market was very bullish on panel makers in 2004, Ray Chen, president of notebook maker Compal Electronics and chairman of packaging and testing company International Semiconductor Technology (IST), predicted that...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...