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Focus on enterprise SSD: Q&A with OCZ CMO Alex Mei
Thursday 14 November 2013
OCZ Technology shifted its corporate focus away from legacy DRAM memory modules in 2011, and has since built on its expertise in high-speed memory to become a leader in the design and manufacturing of solid state drives...
Coping with the shrinking ODD business: Q&A with Lite-On IT CEO Danny Liao
Monday 22 October 2012
As the proportion of notebooks equipped with slim-type optical disc drives (ODDs) is on the decline and use of cloud computing-based storage is on the rise, the optical disc storage market has reached saturation. Faced...
The NAND flash boom: Q&A with Phison chairman Khein Seng Pua
Thursday 5 April 2012
Demand for NAND flash application to eMMC, SSDs and USB 3.0 devices is expected to take off in 2012, according to chairman Khein Seng Pua for IC design house Phison Electronics at an interview with Digitimes.
Memoright talks about application-specific SSD
Thursday 4 August 2011
Digitimes recently had a chance to talk to Eric Kao, chairman and CEO for Memoright, about the growing market for application-specific solid state drives (SSDs) and Memoright's strength in not only hardware manufacturing...
Looking to ride mobile computing wave: Q&A with Kingston co-founder David Sun
Monday 20 June 2011
Kingston Technology's revenues hit a record high of US$6.5 billion for 2010, representing a 58.5% on-year growth. However, high sales do not necessarily mean profits are high as well, company co-founder David Sun pointed...
Expanding SSD market reach: Q&A with OCZ executive VP and CMO Alex Mei
Wednesday 1 June 2011
Once known as a supplier of premium DRAM modules, OCZ Technology has recognized its fiscal 2011 a transformational year for the company. In the year ended February 28, 2011, OCZ shifted its corporate focus away from the...
SSD market set for robust growth: Q&A with Memoright president Alex Kuo
Monday 17 May 2010
The market for solid-state drives (SSD) is expected to grow robustly from 2011 onwards, due to a combination of, chip fabricators shifting to more advanced processes, rising storage density, and lower prices, according...
Objective Analysis: PCIe and standard interface SSDs should coexist for a very long time
Wednesday 5 May 2010
Jim Handy joined semiconductor market researchers at Objective Analysis after more than 30 years in the electronics industry that included 14 years as an industry analyst for Dataquest (now Gartner) and Semico Research,...
Kingston playing supportive role in Taiwan DRAM rescue: Q&A with company co-founder John Tu
Wednesday 3 June 2009
Kingston Technology, the US-based memory module maker who has long been a supportive partner for Taiwan's financially-distressed DRAM makers during difficult times, intends to play a role in helping restore the dynamics...
Trends in storage, the economy and network: Comments from LSI CEO Abhi Talwalkar
Monday 9 June 2008
LSI was founded in 1981 as an ASIC company that did service functions, which meant basically it turned others companies' IP into silicon. The company did that for more than 20 years, but in the years from 2000-2005 it seems...
Global 3Q13 semiconductor equipment billings drop 16% on year, says SEMI
Bits + chips | 2h 43min ago
MediaTek to post shipment drop in 1Q14
Bits + chips | 4h 27min ago
TSMC moves 16nm FinFET to risk production
Bits + chips | 5h 6min ago
Below 50-inch models to take up 60% of Ultra HD TV panel output in 2014, say Taiwan makers
Before Going to Press | 3h 51min ago
G-Tech to offer green building glass
Before Going to Press | 4h 6min ago
Digitimes Research: Taiwan makers to ship 36 million LCD TVs in 2014
Before Going to Press | 4h 6min ago
MLCC suppliers Holy Stone, 3H post mixed November results
Before Going to Press | 4h 7min ago
ASE reportedly losing bumping
Before Going to Press | 4h 7min ago
Foxconn reportedly to start production of small-size OLED panels in 2015
Before Going to Press | 4h 8min ago
Film-based touch panel makers expected to benefit from fast growing demand for inexpensive smartphones in 2014
Before Going to Press | 4h 40min ago
Pegatron chairman may head Taipei Computer Association
Before Going to Press | 4h 41min ago
Compeq to report record revenues for 4Q13
Before Going to Press | 5h 27min ago
Digitimes Research: MediaTek to become AP market leader in 2014
Before Going to Press | 5h 59min ago
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- Three China-based handset vendors increase component deliveries
- Google starts using Internet data center in Taiwan
- AMD slashes desktop CPU prices
- Brand vendors to back down from releasing touchscreen conventional notebooks in 2014
- Passive component supplier Nichidenbo sales up slightly in November
- Taiwan market: Asustek launches PadFone mini
- CCI steps into marketing non-notebook heat-sink devices
- ASE apologizes for discharging toxic wastewater
- Compal acquires new enterprise notebook orders for 2014 from HP
- PCB equipment supplier Csun braces for strong sales in 1Q14
- Suntech announces update on subsidiary share transfers and restructuring process
- 64-bit smartphones to be ushered in 2014, say sources
- Concentrated PV solar installations set to boom, says IHS
- Alcatel-Lucent sets up innovation center in Taiwan
- Innolux to produce 75-inch Ultra HD TV panels
- AUO November large-size panel shipments up 13% on month
- Genesis Photonics looks to LED street lamp demand in China
- Xilinx begins delivering 20nm chips
- TSMC builds up bumping capacity
- Copper foil prices to continue dropping in 1Q14
- Global LCD TV shipments to fall 1.7% in 2013, but grow 3% in 2014, says WitsView
- Intel Labs cooperates with Asustek to improve cloud computing storage
- Taiwan Intelligent Aerotropolis Industry Alliance formed
- HGST looks to adoption of helium-filled HDDs by ODMs
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Transformation: Q&A with ChipMOS chairman and CEO SJ Cheng
ChipMOS Technologies is among very few firms that have transformed themselves successfully and are...
The 4G opportunity: Q&A with executives from major Taiwan telecom carriers
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), Taiwan Mobile (TWM) and Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET), the three largest...
Time ripe for development of smart peripherals: Q&A with Arima Communications president Owen Chen
Smartphone ODM Arima Communications has decided to expand its product lines to include tablets, smart...
Focus on enterprise SSD: Q&A with OCZ CMO Alex Mei
OCZ Technology shifted its corporate focus away from legacy DRAM memory modules in 2011, and has since...
- Smartphone and tablet industry: The view from Taiwan - May 2012
Taiwan-based companies have a long and successful history of involvement in the supply chain for mobile devices, which for the purposes of this article consist...
- Taiwan motherboard industry overview - May 2012
The year 2011 saw the motherboard industry reverse its trend of declining shipments year-on-year, to post a slight 0.2% growth. This upturn in fortunes was expected...
- Notebook market overview - Jun 2011
The notebook industry in 2010 experienced several major events that significantly changed the industry's ecosystem for the year and the industry is also believed...
- LCD TV overview - Jun 2011
Growth of the global LCD TV market was not as strong as expected in 2010 as the market continued to feel the aftershocks of the economic recession that had hit...
- China flat panel display industry outlook, 2013-2016
This Digitimes Research Special Report outlines and analyzes the key trends and players that are influencing the continued development of China large-size and small-to medium size TFT LCD panel industry, while providing related growth forecasts for the industry through 2016.
- TD-LTE market developments and forecast, 2014-2016
TD-LTE has become the mainstream global choice for the construction of 4G asymmetric frequency spectrum networks. This Digitimes Research Special Report examines the current global status of TD-LTE, and forecasts developments in the TD-LTE supply chain in China and worldwide through 2016.
- Trends and developments in the OTT market
Companies such as Apple, Samsung Electronics and Google have become increasingly interested in over-the-top services as a means to connect ultra-mobile devices to TVs, increase cloud computing users, and boost various cloud and software services.