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Interview: PSC president details plans for 12-inch ramp
Monday 5 July 2004
With a recent announcement to build its third 12-inch fab in Taiwan, Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (PSC) is emerging as a major memory foundry service provider. PSC president, Brian Shieh talked to DigiTimes about...
Infineon CTO outlines plans for MRAM
Monday 28 June 2004
Like other major chipmakers, Germany-based Infineon Technologies is stepping up development of non-volatile memory that combines high-speed and high write-endurance, as technologies for the current mainstream products are...
Interview with Infineon memory group president
Thursday 17 June 2004
With its recent management reshuffle, Infineon Technologies has the market’s attention concerning its plans for its DRAM business. The world’s third largest DRAM maker yesterday reiterated that it has no intention...
Wednesday 21 April 2004
Following his “Enterprise Servers and Enterprise Clients” presentation at the Intel Developer Forum in Taiwan last week, Jeff Richardson, general manager of Intel’s Enterprise Platforms & Services...
World Peace (WPG) sees single-digit DRAM shortage in 2Q
Monday 19 April 2004
World Peace Group, the biggest IC distributor in Asia, is expecting a single-digit shortage for the DRAM industry in the second quarter, but remains mindful of warnings that prices will eventually deflate again. IJ Hsu,...
Nanya expands 12-inch capacity with confidence that DRAM prices will remain strong
Friday 2 April 2004
Nanya Technology is optimistically forging ahead with expansion, expecting initial output from its 12-inch wafer venture with Infineon Technologies late this year. Pei Lin Pai, Nanya’s vice president of global sales...
Powerchip leads the pack in Taiwan with 12-inch wafer output; sees DRAM prices stable
Friday 26 March 2004
Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (PSC), Taiwan’s largest DRAM manufacturer, is also the island’s largest beneficiary of the current market upturn, in part thanks to an advantage over its rivals in 12-inch...
Thursday 25 March 2004
On a recent trip to Asia to cement existing relationships, meet potential partners and strengthen Micron Technology’s position in the region, Jan du Preez, vice president of the company’s Networking and Communications...
Powertech expands cautiously amid growing demand from Kingston, Toshiba, SST
Friday 19 March 2004
Powertech Technology Incorporated (PTI), which provides IC testing and assembly services to customers such as Kingston, Toshiba and Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (PSC), is expecting 2004 sales and profits to soar...
Breakfast with Micron: A chat about how memory can help images
Friday 20 February 2004
On a recent whirlwind trip of Asia to promote their expanding range of image sensors, Micron Technology vice president of worldwide sales Michael Sadler, senior director of imaging Shawn Maloney, media relations representative...
Infineon: DRAM price rise sustainable
Friday 22 August 2003
Loh Kin Wah, president and managing director of Infineon Technologies Asia Pacific, is predicting the current momentum in DRAM prices will be sustainable. Loh sat down with us this week in Taipei to discuss his views on...
Interview: Powerchip ramps output, prepares for DRAM rebound in 2H
Friday 6 June 2003
Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (PSC), Taiwan’s fifth-largest DRAM maker, is set to capitalize on a potential rebound in the DRAM market as it doubles the output of 12-inch wafers within the next two weeks.
Interview with Infineon memory chief Harald Eggers
Tuesday 3 December 2002
We caught Harald Eggers, Infineon’s senior vice president and general manager of the memory products division, on a trip to Taiwan to attend yesterday’s ground-breaking ceremony for the German DRAM maker’s...
- AUO aims at 20% market share for eTP touch panels for notebooks in 2013
- Digitimes Research: US new solar installations may only reach 3.5GW in 2013
- Solar cell prices may increase to US$0.43/W in Taiwan
- Sony Mobile to extend cooperation with ODM firms, says marketing executive
- Senao expanding retail chain in eastern China
- UDE likely to obtain orders from 2 game console vendors
- Lenovo 1Q13 net profit hikes 90% on year
- Phison warns several backend firms of possible patent infringement
- Facebook sets up OCP Taiwan
- Computex 2013: Memory module firms to showcase new SSDs
- Asia to be largest LTE market, says Nokia Siemens Networks greater China head
- ABB to produce PV inverters in South Africa
- TPV Technology suffers 1Q13 net loss of over US$10 million
- Digitimes Research: Seoul Semiconductor may see 2013 revenues up 40.3% on year
- Taiwan April manufacturing production index down, says MOEA
- Polarizer makers under price-cut pressure from clients
- AUO to supply panels for use in 2nd-gen Nexus 7, say sources
- US fab-tool book-to-bill stays above parity, says SEMI
- Intel, MediaTek and Elan taking up 60% of global touchscreen controller market
- HannStar to reach 95% utilization in 2Q13
- Windows 8 expected to take up 5-8% of global tablet shipments in 2013, say Taiwan makers
- Digitimes Research: Global LED tube light shipments to reach 220 million units in 2013
- Nvidia introduces GeForce GTX 780 GPU for gaming
- Quartz component maker TXC expects sales to rise through 4Q13
- Global LCD monitor OEM shipments down 14% on year in 1Q13, says TPV
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- Infineon ships security chips to Taiwan electronic passport program (May 23) - Company release
- Apple 'among largest tax avoiders in US' - Senate committee (May 21) - BBC News
- Weak eurozone growth hits euro (May 15) - The Financial Times
- German factory orders rise for second month (May 7) - Bloomberg
- Eurozone retail sales fall for second consecutive month (May 6) - BBC News
- China economy to stay commodity-oriented, says JPMorgan (April 16) - Bloomberg
- S Korea in US$15.3 billion stimulus bid to spur economic growth (April 16) - BBC News
- Gold hit by sharpest tumble in 30 years (April 16) - CNN
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- Embracing the New Generation Intel Atom Family with DDR3 Memory Support
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- Chilisin's miniature power inductor in 0603/0805 sizes
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2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show: Edison Opto's cafe booth
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2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show: Delta LED light bulbs
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2013 Taiwan Internationbal Lighting Show: Epistar applications for agricultural lighting
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2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show: Everlight residential LED lighting
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2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show: Edison Opto LED strip lamp
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Opportunity lies for MEMS energy harvesting: Q&A with Holst Centre general manager Bert Gyselinckx
Digitimes recently interviewed Bert Gyselinckx, general manager of the Holst Centre in Eindhoven, to...
Returning with stronger competitiveness: Q&A with Lu Li-Cheng, Chaintech chairman
Chaintech, a motherboard/graphics card maker, which quit the market once and returned recently, has...
MEMS-enabled energy harvesting: Q&A with MIG executive director Karen Lightman
Digitimes recently spoke with Karen Lightman, the executive director of MEMS Industry Group (MIG),...
Complete mobile platform solutions: Q&A with Broadcom executive VP Robert Rango
In a relentless competition against rivals including Qualcomm, Nvidia and Media in the smartphone chipset...
- Smartphone and tablet industry: The view from Taiwan - May 2012
Taiwan-based companies have a long and successful history of involvement in the supply chain for mobile devices, which for the purposes of this article consist...
- Taiwan motherboard industry overview - May 2012
The year 2011 saw the motherboard industry reverse its trend of declining shipments year-on-year, to post a slight 0.2% growth. This upturn in fortunes was expected...
- Notebook market overview - Jun 2011
The notebook industry in 2010 experienced several major events that significantly changed the industry's ecosystem for the year and the industry is also believed...
- LCD TV overview - Jun 2011
Growth of the global LCD TV market was not as strong as expected in 2010 as the market continued to feel the aftershocks of the economic recession that had hit...
- 2H 2012 global TFT panel market forecast
Digitimes Research predicts there will be a total of 389 million large-sized TFT LCD panels shipped in 2H12, with 195 million in the third quarter and 194 million in the fourth quarter - with the total representing a 7.6% increase over the first half of this year.
- Trends and shipment forecast for 2H 2012 smartphone market
Smartphone shipments in 2010 and 2011 both enjoyed growth of more than 60%. Growth will decelerate in 2012 due to the high base, as well as a slowdown in consumer spending in Western Europe.
- 4Q12 trends in the Greater China touch panel industry
In the second half of 2012, the market focus is on the iPhone 5, which uses in-cell touch screen technology. Due to the integration of display panels and touch panel functions, the high technological threshold will mean Taiwan touch panel makers are unable to enter the iPhone supply chain.