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),...

What do European IT companies see in Asia? More partners or more competitors? What do they think in Europe about Asia’s role in innovations? What can they say about Taiwan? Recently DigiTimes.com had an opportunity...

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...

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...

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,...

When Samsung introduced its SPH-V5400 mobile phone featuring a 1.5GB one-inch Cornice Storage Element (SE) in September last year, it was perceived as a significant step towards the mass market marriage of hard disk drives...

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...

Brian Jarrard, developer of the Halo 2 online game and lead community development manager at Bungie.net, was in Taipei last week to attend the 2005 Taipei Game Show held from February 24-28 and had a brief chat with DigiTimes...

AtGames, a Bermuda-based game-software distributor, signed a distribution agreement with game-software giant Sega earlier this year, according to a Sega press...

Having boosted its capacity by 50% with a new plant in China, Kingmax Semiconductor is hoping to increase its share of the DRAM-module market. But this strategy poses plenty of questions. When can we really expect DDR2...

Tul Corporation saw its graphics card shipments surge 70% on-year to four million units in 2004, making it the third-largest graphics card maker in Taiwan and ATI Technologies’ largest add-in-board client in the Taiwan...

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,...

One of the communication industry's hot stories, right now, is Realtek Semiconductor Corp.'s move into Wireless LAN chip design. Already a dominating presence in Ethernet networking controllers, Realtek is now offering...

Peter Kempf, vice president of marketing, Wireless and Residential Gateway Access Products at Conexant Systems, spoke with DigiTimes about how the company is competing in the WLAN IC market through product differentiation...

Atsana Semiconductor, headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, develops fully programmable, low-power consumption multimedia processors for wireless devices such as handsets, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and network cameras...

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 talk with Richard Brown, director of marketing at VIA Technologies in Taipei. Talk focused on VIA’s embedded processors and the platforms they enable. Explaining that embedded...

SiGe Semiconductor, a Canada-based fabless IC design house, is aggressively expanding its operations in Asia, according to company chief executive officer Jim Derbyshire. The Asia headquarters will be set up in Hong Kong,...

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...

During a pre-seminar meeting (UK Development in Flat Panel Displays 2004), five display experts from the UK talked to the Taiwan press about their cooperation with companies in Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and possibly China,...

With respect to a given lithography node – whether it’s 0.11- or 0.13-micron – both stack and trench processes are implementing 8F² technology. However, the various suppliers do not use standardized...

DigiTimes recently had the opportunity to talk with Robert Chen, senior vice president, Marketing Center, RiTdisplay Corporation, one of the three or four companies in Taiwan that are pioneering OLED display technology...

DigiTimes spoke with David Nagel, president and CEO of PalmSource, on the occasion of a recent business trip to Taipei. The Q&A session covered a wide range of Palm OS-related topics, including Chinese-language support...

Competition in polarizers is heating up! Japan-based Nitto Denko, the world’s top polarizer maker, recently finished building a complete polarizer plant in the Central Taiwan Science Park (CTSP). This plant just happens...