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...

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...

Crediting its success to its 90nm product segment and multi-foundry strategy with manufacturing partners United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) and Toshiba, Xilinx expects to see a 61% gross margin for the second quarter...

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...

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...

The introduction of the ultra-slim Motorola V3 clamshell mobile phone has helped Motorola sharpen its brand recognition, and the product is among the top-10 models in all the major handset markets, including China. Jim...

Founded in 1987, US-based Kingston Technology, the world’s largest third-party DRAM module supplier, used to focus its business on the Europe and US markets. However, John Tu, co-founder and president of Kingston,...

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...

A spin-out from Lucent Technologies, Agere Systems offers a wide array of chip solutions that at first glance appear bewilderingly diverse. They include solutions for telecom, mobile telephony, storage and networking. Agere...

DRAM modules are definitely a focus of attention for many industry players and buyers these days. However, the rising place of flash-based memory along with its growing penetration in consumer electronics products such...

Although Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) saw its share of the global foundry market slide to under 50% in the second half of 2004, the company has regained over half of the market and expects maintain...

Taiwan test company Ardentec Corporation is offering a range of test services that implement on-wafer test and the identification of “known good die.” Using this approach, company CEO and chairman CY Lu hopes...

A-Data Technology was founded in 2001 and three years later was named fourth-largest third-party DRAM-module manufacturer by iSuppli. Then, A-Data entered the top-three in the world, on the basis of 2004 revenues, following...

Established in 1984, Chun Yun Electronics was one of many Taiwan-based display and TV set makers until Jack Ko, co-founder of Gigabyte Technology, and his team joined the company to lead it to the motherboard market. The...

The traditional concept of the Science Park – at least as it is understood in Taiwan – is one of putting a number of high-tech companies in one central location, combining them in so-called industry clusters...

Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE), one of the world’s leading packaging and testing companies, recently saw most of the major production lines at its Chungli plant destroyed by a fire. ASE chairman Jason Chang,...

Corsair Memory, a US-based memory module maker that focuses on the high-end memory modules for gamers and PC enthusiasts, recently received validation for Nvidia's nForce4 SLI Intel edition platform. The company claimed...

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...

SigmaTel, a US-based fabless IC-design firm specializing in controller ICs for MP3 players, anticipates strong demand for its products in the second quarter following a strong performance in the first quarter, according...

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...

For Taiwan’s motherboard industry there is definitely no company more important than Intel. While other processor and chipset makers, as well as other component suppliers and valued customers play their important...

Consuming enormous amounts of passive and active electronic components, Taiwan’s IT industry creates many opportunities for doing business in the field. Established in 1981, Holy Stone has found itself as a maker...

DigiTimes.com talked with Jeff Hsieh, chief executive officer of DRAM-module maker GeIL about survival strategies for small DRAM-module makers. Many in the industry expect this year to be tough, but Hsieh remains optimistic...