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SSDs not a simple solution for replacing HDDs: Q&A with Seagate executive
Tuesday 5 January 2016
During a Digitimes interview, Global Sales and Operations senior vice president B.S. Teh for Seagate Technology indicated that it is not simple for SSDs (solid-state drives) to replace HDDs (hard disk drives), simply because...
SSD products for sustainable growth: Q&A with Phison chairman Khein-Seng Pua
Wednesday 3 December 2014
NAND flash chip controller maker Phison Electronics has seen its sales grow robustly in 2014. And under the leadership of its chairman Khein-Seng Pua, the company has initiated a restructuring plan, dubbed "Phison...
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...
Alibaba nets CNY5.65 per share for 2Q17
IT + CE | 11min ago
Taiwan ICT vendors have to offer turnkey solutions in Indonesia market: Q&A with TAITRA representative
IT + CE | 13min ago
Taiwan market: Acer sponsors smarwatches for Universiade Taipei
IT + CE | 43min ago
Wafer Works expects wafer prices to continue rising on strong demand
Bits + chips | 58min ago
Mirle seeing order backlog swell, says report
Bits + chips | 1h 2min ago
Simplo expects shipments for electric bicycles to boom
Before Going to Press | Aug 17, 21:54
China market: IoT chip demand promising, says ARM CEO
Before Going to Press | Aug 17, 21:33
- Apple Watch shipments expected to reach 15 million in 2017
- Dialog looking to extend partnership with Spreadtrum
- SPIL to restart backend services for DRAM
- Simplo expects dramatic growth in electric bicycle battery business
- Tsinghua Unigroup chief pledges firm support for Spreadtrum against mobile chip rivals
- Polarizer maker Optimax reports losses for 1H17
- Taiwan market: Acer subsidiary to sell tablets for the elderly
- UL Taiwan amid first-round IEC 62619:2017 labs
- Commentary: Is Huawei carrier business losing growth momentum?
- Micron advances semiconductor R&D capabilities with new Boise facility
- Getac shipping video solution products to US
- Commentary: Taiwan faces challenges in energy transition
- TSEC to start production at new PV module plant in 1Q18
- Electric car vendor Thunder Power to build plants in Taiwan
- Digitimes Research: Wisconsin plant to accelerate Foxconn transformation
- NSP affiliate completes 225MWp PV systems in US
- E-paper solution provider EIH reports earnings for 1H17
- China market: MediaTek to roll out new Helio P series for mid-range smartphones
- Apple Watch 3 launch likely at year-end 2017, says report
- HMD Global unveils Nokia 8
- Nvidia overtakes MediaTek as 3rd largest IC design company
- Brisk graphics card demand to buoy inductor firms in 3Q17
- Server DRAM revenues among top-3 suppliers surge 30% in 2Q17, says DRAMeXchange
- Egistec to post brisk 3Q17 revenues
- Keyssa announces connectivity ecosystem involving Foxconn, Samsung
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- Buyout firm blames China-bashing for stalled semiconductor deal (Jul 28) - Wall Street Journal
- Toshiba delivers long-awaited earnings (Aug 10) - BBC News
- Deadly earthquake strikes China's Sichuan province (Aug 9) - BBC News
- Google employee anti-diversity memo causes row (Aug 7) - BBC News
- Cashing in on the drone revolution (Aug 3) - BBC News
- US second-quarter growth accelerates to 2.6% (Jul 28) - BBC News
- Corning and Gerresheimer collaborate to deliver new Corning Valor Glass to pharmaceutical packaging market (Jul 24) - Company release
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- Lelon's efforts in high-end markets are expected to generate significant results in the second half the year
- Unisys IT Implementation of Unisys Stealth Solution for Data Center Segmentation
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- Embracing the New Generation Intel Atom Family with DDR3 Memory Support
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- Perforce Software Wins Develop Industry Excellence Award for the Second Year in a Row
- Perforce Teams with Leading Git Client Developer fournova
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- Micron executive skeptical about UFS
- Enterprise board choices with new AMD and Intel CPU platforms: Whom to support?
- Frankfurt ISC 2017 post-show European high end computing adventure: a place in Taiwan for it?
- Taiwan market: Paypal enhances service by disabling domestic payment processing
- Corning talks up 3D cell cultures in Taiwan
- AMD launches Zen-based datacenter processors and new GPU accelerators for servers
- Apple announces two new iPad Pros
- Computex 2017: Acer Predator Triton 700 gaming notebook to Ship with Nvidia GTX 1080 GPUs
- Computex 2017: Asustek shows new members for its ZenBook and VivoBook
- AMD unveils Radeon Pro Duo graphics card
Taiwan IT industry can directly jump onto AI development: Q&A with LotaData CEO Apu Kumar
While high-tech gurus have yet to reach a consensus over whether Taiwan is suitable for developing...
IDM model no longer viable for Japan semiconductor industry: Q&A with Socionext CEO Yasuo Nishiguchi
Though still a global bellwether in many areas of semiconductor technologies, Japan's semiconductor...
FD-SOI a promising technology: Q&A with Globalfoundries CEO Sanjay Jha
Globalfoundries' fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator FD-SOI process technology targeted at Internet...
As a leading virtualization and cloud computing infrastructure provider with a 85% share of the global...
- 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 AMOLED panel capacity expansion forecast, 2016-2020
This Digitimes Research Special Report examines the China AMOLED industry, focusing on the expansion capacity of the makers, the current implementation plans of major smartphone vendors in the market and the technological hurdles faced by the China makers.
- Global AP demand forecast, 2017-2020
Digitimes Research expects global AP shipments to surpass the 1.9 billion mark in 2017, with smartphones remaining the main application. Qualcomm will be leading the market in 2017, as other players continue playing catch up and scramble for funds to invest in more diverse applications.
- Global notebook shipment forecast, 2017 and beyond
This Digitimes Special Report examines key factors in the notebook industry, including products, vendors and ODMs, that will affect total shipments in 2017 and through 2021.