DigiTimes.com recently had an opportunity to talk with Intel technology strategist Jeff Ravencraft, chairman and president of the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF), about Certified Wireless USB, its relationship to wired...

In an extended interview with Singapore-based consultant Nebojsa Novakovic, last month, the focus was on the turf war that lies at the heart of the global IT industry, the battle for supremacy in the processor markets....

The marriage of Ultra-Wideband and USB remains a tantalizing vision for the communications industry, although perhaps a marriage made in hell as much as in heaven. The IT and communications industries have long regarded...

Innovative Silicon (ISi) is a venture-funded start-up company, founded by chief scientist Serguei Okhonin and chairman and CTO Pierre Fazan, dedicated to the development and licensing of Z-RAM memory technology.

With several success stories under its belt, Oregan Networks expects DLNA certification, Viiv PCs and CEA-2014 ratification to soon bring some level of standardization to the digital home entertainment market. This should...

Recognized by local experts as one of undoubted leaders of the Russian IT market, Merlion earned its reputation as the largest IT distributor in Russia and the company behind the popular iRU brand that was owned by its...

DigiTimes recently named two companies as International News Makers in 2005. One of those companies was Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).

When wireless LAN (802.11) first began to see significant market take-up, any number of IC companies tried to compete, only to discover that it was tough going. Many of the original contenders in wireless LAN dropped out,...

Info-Tek Corporation was founded in 1990 as a contract manufacturer for motherboards and interface cards and is invested by motherboard maker Gigabyte. The company has production centers in Taiwan and China, and is best...

Designed in the late 1980s, digital audio broadcasting (DAB) technology is now coming up to potentially replace traditional analog forms of broadcast radio. Taiwan-headquartered IC design startup Future Waves proclaims...

To the outside observer, improvements in PC architecture are evolutionary but logical. Processors advance inevitably in speed and performance, in happy accordance with Moore's Law. For Nebojsa Novakovic, a consultant in...

Embedded processors are now central to the converged environment that many in the IT and electronics industries are calling the digital home. Noam Shendar, director of Strategic Marketing for MIPS Technologies, argues that...

Projector vendor Optoma, a wholly owned subsidiary of projector manufacturer Coretronic, expects to ship about 50,000 units in the Asia region this year, up from 15,000-20,000 units in 2004. Optoma mainly focuses on Taiwan,...

Even though the memory business is highly volatile, Taiwan-based memory device maker Transcend Information has been able to maintain gross margins of over 15% on average throughout the years. Company chairman Peter Su talked...

Originally codenamed Newcard (introduced under this name in February 2003 at the Intel Developer Forum in San Jose), ExpressCard technology represents the new generation of hot-pluggable I/O expansion cards that the Personal...

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...

Japan-based Seiko Epson is a leading company in imagining technology, robotics, precision machinery and electronics. DigiTimes had chance to interview Toshio Kimura, executive vice president of Seiko Epson, to talk about...

Jonney Shih, chairman and CEO of Asustek Computer, recently had a chance to talk to DigiTimes about recent actions in line with its business enhancement strategy. The motherboard giant recently acquired...

Seiko Epson recently released several new LCD projectors in Taiwan, with one of the models using its newest “D5” panel. DigiTimes had the opportunity to talk with Akira Suzuki, director of LCD Business Development...

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.

Having moved most of its manufacturing to Wujiang in China’s Jiangsu Province (about 20km from Suzhou and 60km from Shanghai), Taipei-headquartered Arima Computer is already phasing out the RioWorks brand name that...

Acard Technology is best known for its SCSIDE bridge solution, which allows IDE, and now SATA, drives to be aggregated on a SCSI interface. This allows mass data storage solutions that have all the virtues of SCSI without...

Headquartered in Israel, with design centers in both the US and Israel, Metalink Broadband is moving ahead with wireless LAN at the 802.11n standard and recently announced a new chipset family designed to support video...

Measured in purely financial terms, Mentor Graphics is not as large as its two nearest neighbors at the top of the EDA industry. Nevertheless, Mentor is an acknowledged EDA leader. The company has managed to consolidate...