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...

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...

On the occasion of a recent visit to Taipei, DigiTimes.com had the opportunity to talk with Cy Hay, marketing manager, Test Automation Products, Synopsys Inc. Hay emphasized the need for test compression for deep sub-micron...

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...

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...

Compared to the previous two years, when the market demonstrated double-digit growth, an expected slowdown this year could mean a tough time for DRAM-module makers. For small players, it may be a challenge to survive. DigiTimes.com...

DigiTimes.com recently had the opportunity to talk with Ping Yang Ph.D., VP for R&D at foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). VP Ping Yang outlined the company’s relationship with external...

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...

Asia’s growing output of semiconductors, OLEDs and LCD-driver ICs means big business for equipment makers. SPEA, an Italy-based maker of automated test equipment (ATE) for semiconductors, is targeting packaging and...

Right at the cutting edge of Taiwan’s chip design industry is Etron Technology. A relatively small and young company, located in the Hsinchu Science Park (HSP), Etron has attracted international attention with a string...

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...

Following the announcement from Macronix that its full-year earnings will be 86.4% below forecast, company president Miin Wu sat down with DigiTimes and other media to explain how this had come about, his view on the NOR...

Change and evolution are ongoing at Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS). Best known as a maker of highly integrated core-logic chipsets, last year SiS reverted to being a fabless IC design house, following a period when it...

ProMOS Technologies, at a recent event hosted by Taiwan’s Council of Labor Affairs (CLA), announced the donation of used semiconductor equipment to the Central Taiwan Science Park (CTSP). The equipment, valued at...

DigiTimes.com recently had an opportunity to talk with Rutgers Chow, vice president of Asia Operations and the managing director at the Taiwan Branch of Aviza Technology International Inc., a leading supplier of thermal...

At the recent Fabless Semiconductor Association (FSA) Expo in Taipei, DigiTimes.com had the opportunity to speak with Doron Simon, US president of foundry company Tower Semiconductor. Simon outlined the particular technical...

Raymond Wu, executive vice president of OmniVision Technologies, sat down with DigiTimes to talk about the company, growth in the CMOS image sensor market in 2004 and 2005, and the status of OmniVision’s joint vent...

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...

Starting from the first quarter of next year, Xilinx, a major US-based programmable-logic device (PLD) maker, will begin producing some of its 90nm-based field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) at a Toshiba 12-inch fab located...

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 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...

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...

On the first day of Semicon Taiwan, DigiTimes had an opportunity to talk with Stanley Myers, president and chief executive officer of SEMI, and Terry Higashi, chairman of TEL (Tokyo Electron Ltd.) and chairman of the board...

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...