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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...
Phison reports strong earnings for 1H14
Bits + chips - Newswatch | 7h 47min ago
Hermes Microvision to see revenues stay flat in 3Q14
Before Going to Press | 6h 58min ago
Delta Electronics 2Q14 gross margin, net profit hit records
Before Going to Press | 6h 59min ago
Huawei ships 34 million smartphones in 1H14
Before Going to Press | 7h 11min ago
Taiwan market: BenQ 1H14 LCD TV sales up 20% due to low-blue-light models
Before Going to Press | 7h 12min ago
Commentary: China antitrust probe could affect Qualcomm performance
Before Going to Press | 7h 13min ago
Demand for tablet touch panels decreasing, say Taiwan makers
Before Going to Press | 7h 35min ago
Adlink develops 3D intelligent vision-aided positioning system in cooperation with ITRI
Before Going to Press | 7h 49min ago
Digitimes Research: Smartphone AP shipments grow over 13% sequentially in China in 2Q14
Before Going to Press | 8h 6min ago
China market: Colorful Technology poses competitive threat to MSI, ASRock
Before Going to Press | 8h 7min ago
UMC to post single-digit revenue growth in 3Q14
Before Going to Press | 8h 8min ago
Taiwan notebook ODMs to benefit from HP, Dell sales in North America
Before Going to Press | 8h 8min ago
Huawei Device sees high growth in 1H14 handset shipments
Before Going to Press | 8h 9min ago
Sales for mini versions of flagship smartphones short of expectations
Before Going to Press | 8h 10min ago
Digitimes Research: Taiwan digital camera shipments in 2Q14 up 43.3% sequentially
Before Going to Press | 8h 11min ago
Global market share for iPad may slip to below 25% in 2H14
Before Going to Press | 8h 12min ago
Acer tops US LCD monitor retail market in 1H14
Before Going to Press | 8h 13min ago
Huawei Device to launch Ascend Mate 3 4G smartphone, says report
Before Going to Press | 8h 14min ago
- Digitimes Research: Smartphone AP shipments in China to grow 2H14
- Competition for notebook panels may heat up due to South Korea makers increasing output, say Taiwan makers
- Digitimes Research: Taiwan makers ship over 67 million large-size TFT-LCD panels in 2Q14
- Taiwan solar firms may rely on markets other than US in 2H14
- Unitech, Dynamic ramping rigid-flexible PCBs
- Commentary: Microsoft moves to eliminate Nokia
- Aces enjoys orders from BMW and Mercedes-Benz
- LG Innotek signs cooperation to focus on Li-Fi business, says report
- Kinsus net profits up over 55% sequentially in 2Q14
- Panel supply to remain tight until 4Q14 or 1Q15, says Innolux president
- TWM foresees profit drop in 3Q14
- Tatung to set up rooftop PV systems with total capacity of 4MWp in Pescadores
- Taiwan market: Acer, Asustek see opportunities from enterprise PC replacement trend
- Macronix reportedly lands large-volume ROM orders from Nintendo
- GET may set up PV module factory abroad to cope with US anti-dumping taxation
- Everlight to expand monthly LED packaging capacity to 4 billion chips, says chairman
- Neo Solar Power nets NT$1.02 per share for 1H14
- Foxconn comments on reports of plans to invest in Anhui, China
- Innovative Logic, M31 Technology introduce USB-IF certified USB 3.0 device controller IP solution
- Asustek, Gigabyte releasing new gaming notebooks in 3Q14
- Baidu to release smartphone with MediaTek processor, says report
- Terry Guo overseeing Foxconn preparations for new iPhone
- New Surface to come into production in August, say Taiwan maker
- Innolux announces 2Q14 net profit of NT$3 billion
- Casetek Holdings sees 2Q14 decline
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- Sharp pulls out of Italy to end overseas solar panel production (Jul 24) - Bloomberg
- BlackBerry looks to partnerships to compete with Apple and IBM venture (Jul 24) - Finacial Times
- Baidu to boost mobile investment after profit rises 34% (Jul 25)4 - Business Week
- Amazon reports big losses (Jul 24) - Forbes
- China's Huawei reports 19% jump in sales (Jul 21) - BBC News
- Samsung SDI's suspension of plasma production a plus for earnings: analysts (Jul 2) - Yonhap News
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Differentiation is the core advantage: Q&A MediaTek president Hsieh Ching-chiang
MediaTek has taken up to 60% of the 3G handset solution market in China, pushing the market value of...
AMD pushing ARM/x86-compatibility for server business, says senior VP Lisa Su
AMD has been reorganizing its businesss, such as moving its desktop business headquarters to Beijing,...
Intel prepared for emerging industries, says company president Renee James
Intel president Renee James, during a recent interview, told Digitimes that the company and its partners...
Turning a smartphone into a PC in a pocket: Q&A with Analogix
According to a recent IDC research note, the transition toward mobile and cloud-based computing is...
- 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...
- 2014 global high brightness LED market, trends and shipment forecast
For the global LED lighting market, the market size will reach US$25.82 billion in 2014 or a market penetration rate of 23.4%. This is attributable to exponential shipment growth for light bulbs, tubes, and directional lamps.
- Greater China touch panel shipment forecast through 2015
This Special Report provides forecasts through 2015 for Greater China touch panel shipments with breakdowns based on technology (glass, film, resistive), application (smartphone, NB and tablet) and by firm.
- 2014 global tablet demand forecast
This report analyzes the main players, their strategies and shipments forecasts for 2014, as well as other factors contributing to either growth or decline in various segments within the tablet market, with a particular focus on Apple, Google, Samsung, and Microsoft, along with whitebox vendors.