PC hardware and components suppliers are now involved in a rapid re-orientation towards consumer electronics, where it’s hoped that the Media Center PC will give a much-needed boost to the global IT industry. The...

MIPS-based processors are providing a flexible and versatile architecture for a range of consumer-oriented embedded applications, including set-top boxes (STBs), personal video recorders (PVRs), portable media players (PMPs),...

Lite-On Semiconductor, a Taiwan-based vendor of CMOS image-sensors and other discrete ICs, has begun volume shipments of its 1.3-megapixel CMOS image-sensor modules, made using a chip-on-board (COB) process, for camera-equipped...

At the heart of liquid-crystal on silicon (LCOS) technology is semiconductor design, the silicon-based microdisplay panel, and it’s the design of the panel that determines whether LCOS specialists will succeed or...

John Mathews, PhD, Professor of Management at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management (New South Wales, Australia), has published widely on the rise of the IT, electronics and displays industries in East Asia, in such...

In Taiwan, a handful of companies, including panel and optical-engine suppliers, are in the process of establishing a supply chain for TVs based on liquid-crystal on silicon (LCOS) microdisplays. Prokia Technology is one...

A subsidiary of Taiwan TV maker Teco Electric & Machinery, Teco Optronics entered the OLED market for just under NT$1 billion in capital (approximately equivalent to US$32.5 million). According to president Chan Wang,...

Some in the displays industry see Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCOS) technology rather as a gardener looks at hardy perennials. Interest comes and goes as successive waves of corporate executives first see LCOS, with a gleam...

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...

Syntax Groups has cooperated with Taiwan-based companies (such as Chi Mei Optoelectronics [CMO], Kolin and Prokia Technology) to produce low-cost high-quality LCD and LCOS (liquid-crystal-on-silicon) TVs for North America...

Si-chung Chang is chairman of several TFT LCD-related companies in Taiwan and China, including color filter (CF) maker Sintek Photronic, backlight-module maker Helix Technology, Global Display Technology (Suzhou) and semiconductor...

TFT LCD looks firmly entrenched as the dominant flat-panel technology, but in fact the displays industry is keen to find a technology that delivers better performance – and, crucially, at lower cost. Alternative technologies...

Although LCD-TV panel prices did not slump as much as those of TFT-LCD panels last year, market research firms and financial firms did end up readjusting their 2005 forecasts for the LCD-TV industry. DigiTimes recently...

Color STN (CSTN)- and TFT-LCD panels stand a good chance of becoming the mainstream handset panels in 2005, thanks to promotions from international handset makers, and CSTN technology is expected to become the major choice...

Toppoly Optoelectronics was the first Taiwan-based company to invest heavily in the production of LTPS (low-temperature polysilicon) TFT-LCD panels. Recently, the company decided to focus on small-to-medium-size panel production,...

Sega Corporation made the shocking decision in early 2001 that it would cease production of its Dreamcast online game console and instead focus on developing software titles for use with its former rivals’ game consoles,...

Among the flat-panel display pioneers in Taiwan is Univision Technology, a specialist in OLED displays, based in the Hsinchu Science Park (HSP). A relatively young company, Univision has developed its own OLED technology,...

Recently DigiTimes had an opportunity to talk with C.S. Yang, director of the LTPS division at Taiwan's AU Optronics (AUO). Currently, the company is considered to be the world's number-three producer of TFT LCD-based display...

Recently, on the occasion of a business trip to Taiwan, DigiTimes had the opportunity to talk with UK-based CRLO Displays, which has acquired assets in F-LCOS microdisplay technology, following, in particular, the demise...

Ligitek Electronics, a Taiwan-based LED testing and packaging company, saw its gross margins rise from less than 25% in the first half of this year to 27-28% in the third quarter, on the successful performance of its new...

DigiTimes recently had the opportunity to speak with JJ Lih, Director of the OLED Division at AUO (AU Optronics), one of a handful of companies now fabricating flat-display panels in Taiwan. In particular, Lih outlined...

DLP (digital light processing) is rapidly gaining ascendance in the global projector market. According to US-based market-research firm Pacific Media Associates (PMA), DLP had a 37.1% market penetration in the second quarter...

The TFT LCD industry has gone through a series of heated price wars since last month, and several Taiwan-based makers have decided to suspend their production plans, reallocate capacity and clear out excess inventory. Various...

Feng Jun, president and CEO of HuaQi Information Technology, shared his experience with DigiTimes to talk about how the company has beaten South Korea-based Samsung Electronics to become the top spot in China’s...

Radiant Opto-Electronics, the second-largest TFT LCD backlight-module maker in Taiwan, is currently shipping samples to Samsung Electronics. Once it receives approval from the South Korea-based company, Radiant will become...