For Solid State System (3S), a relatively late comer to the NAND flash controller IC sector, it may be the worst of times to list on Taiwan's over-the-counter (OTC) stock market when the NAND flash market is at a low. But...

David Sheu, chairman and CEO of Taiwan-based equipment supplier Spirox, expects spending by Taiwan's semiconductor players for 2008 to fall, chiefly because of reduced investment from the DRAM sector. Sheu, who has just...

Taiwan-based network-equipment vendor D-Link has been promoting its own-brand products worldwide for over 10 years. It now holds a 23.8% share in the SOHO and SMB (small and medium business) segments of the global network-equipment...

Applied Materials on December 4 held a forum in Taipei on the photovoltaic (PV) industry during which Digitimes had the opportunity to interview Mark Pinto, the company's senior vice president, chief technology officer...

Google's announcement of Android in early November brought a lot of press to the idea of an open handset platform. Such an idea, however, is not new and OpenMoko is one company that has been publicly pursuing such a goal...

Taiwan's LED production value will reach NT$93.2 billion by 2010, and the region will account for 14% of the global LED market, according to Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI). While a number of LED...

Apart from continuously growing its core business, Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO), a Taiwan-based LCD panel maker, now is expanding into the solar energy market and expects to volume produce thin-film solar energy products...

Israel-based Tower Semiconductor recently opened a representative office in Taiwan to step up development of the Asia-Pacific market. Digitimes recently talked to Tower CEO Russell Ellwanger about his outlook for the company...

Although LCD monitor demand remains strong, with global shipments expected to increase 30% this year, annual growth will begin to drop off starting next year, with DisplaySearch forecasting that growth in the global LCD...

Asustek Computer's recent launch of the low-cost Eee PC has prompted a wide range of opinions across the market. Some say the Eee PC sacrificed too many functions and performance for its price, while others are optimistic...

More than a year after it was spun off from Philips, NPX has become the second-largest semiconductor player in the Greater China region. Digitimes recently talked to Mike Yeh, NXP's regional executive for Greater China,...

By strengthening ties with number-one handset vendor Nokia in 3G handset chip solutions in August 2007, STMicroelectronics raised eyebrows...

As a leading memory licensing company that focuses on competitive-edge technologies that meet high-performance memory requirements, Rambus stresses the significance of differentiation, while delivering an optimistic outlook...

With feature-phones drawing more consumer attention helped along by high-profile products such as Apple's iPhone and the speculated gPhone from Google, chipmakers for 3G and 3.5G phones are seeing growing opportunities,...

Silicon Motion, which has made its name designing flash controller ICs, lays strong emphasis on its technological strength and service that constantly has landed it opportunities to work with international companies. Through...

Enjoying good order visibility for printed circuit boards (PCBs) through to year-end of 2007, Unimicron Technology, as a leading PCB maker, is also seeing buoyant IC substrate sales on strong demand for PC- and games console-related...

Following the announcement of plans to acquire the mixed signal and analog IP specialist Chipidea Microelectronica in late August, Digitimes...

Hewlett-Packard (HP), the world's number one PC vendor, has made substantial gains in the global consumer notebook market and the company is also making headway in the business notebook segment with its new strategy targeting...

As the third-largest semiconductor equipment supplier after Applied Materials and Tokyo Electron Limited (TEL) and a leading player in the immersion lithography field, ASML has a clear direction for its future. The equipment...

President of the company's Asia operations since April, Larry Tan of Texas Instruments (TI) believes that a strong relationship with the customer is key for success. Citing a broad customer base and solid ties with customers,...

For International Semiconductor Technology (IST), a major Taiwan supplier of packaging and testing services for driver ICs, it is time to diversify to other segments. IST president Gray Huang thinks that packaging and testing...

Having been in the semiconductor business for several decades, materials supplier Wahlee Industrial provides materials used in engineering plastics, compound materials, printed circuit boards (PCBs), semiconductors and...

With Aviza Technology recently announcing a development program with Taiwan-based Mosel Vitelic for developing advanced atomic layer deposition (ALD) materials for next-generation flash applications, the company strengthened...

Earlier this year, Terry Tsao was appointed president of SEMI Southeast Asia. Tsao is responsible for the association's programs, products and services in Singapore and Taiwan, as well as the organization's relationships...

With more than 7,000 of its semiconductor manufacturing systems shipped worldwide, SUSS MicroTec is not discouraged by the recent trimming of growth forecasts for the semiconductor industry by major research firms because...