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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...
Compal evaluating partnership with LeEco
IT + CE | 7h 51min ago
Qisda pushing to adopt more robotic arms at Taiwan plants
IT + CE | 8h 14min ago
Foxconn announces US investment project
IT + CE | 8h 16min ago
FPCB firm Flexium to see July revenues rise substantially
Bits + chips | 8h 22min ago
Taiwan May unemployment rate down, says DGBAS
Bits + chips | 8h 24min ago
Samsung mass producing Exynos-branded IoT solution
Bits + chips | 8h 25min ago
Faraday MFP ASIC shipments rise at CAGR of 38%
Bits + chips | 9h 18min ago
Xiaomi sampling in-house developed Surge S2 chips, says report
Bits + chips | 9h 20min ago
Aspeed enjoys brisk BMC chip orders
Bits + chips | 9h 22min ago
IC distributor Edom to post double-digit revenue growth in 2017
Before Going to Press | 9h 27min ago
Huawei, Vivo and Oppo likely to ship lower-than-expected smartphones
Before Going to Press | 9h 29min ago
IntelliEPI expects to post sequential revenue growth through 3Q17
Before Going to Press | 9h 30min ago
Qisda has high hopes for enterprise and industrial robots
Before Going to Press | 9h 51min ago
Taiwan May unemployment rate down, says DGBAS
Before Going to Press | 10h 17min ago
- Arima expects robust growth in 2017
- Silitech reports losses for May
- Jason Chen becomes Acer chairman
- TSMC secures 7nm chip orders from Qualcomm
- WD comments on Toshiba bid on flash JV
- Thinking to expand business in car electronics market
- ARM intros enhanced DesignStart program
- Global industrial semiconductor revenues rise 4% in 2016, says IHS
- Altek sues China-based CCM maker, smartphone sales agent for patent infringement
- Epistar lands orders for ultra-brightness AlGaInP LED chips used in plant-growth lighting
- Taiwan market: Oppo launches R11 in local market
- EIH to negotiate with firm for redemption of exchangeable bonds
- Dedicated solutions needed for thorough info security of embedded systems
- Innolux developing Mini LED as predecessor to Micro LED
- Innolux, Next Biometrics tie up for mass production of flexible fingerprint sensors
- Innolux begins shipping complete TV sets
- Gintech Thailand plant has order visibility till year end
- Taiwan has advantage to develop Micro LED, says AUO chairman
- First-tier China makers offer 3-year supply contracts for mono-Si solar wafers
- NOR flash prices to rise 20% in 3Q17, says DRAMeXchange
- Worldwide wearables market to nearly double by 2021, says IDC
- Taiwan IC design houses seeing orders pick up
- Acer faring well in high-margin PC segments
- IOC and Intel announce worldwide TOP partnership through 2024
- VMware NSX network virtualization solution sales booming
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Eyeing more profitable sectors: Q&A with Wally Liaw, Supermicro VP of international sales
Supermicro, originally a maker of server motherboards, has been gradually evolved into an own-brand...
Gigabyte Technology has been performing well in the motherboard market for the past few years and is...
Gigabyte strengthening high-end gaming brand recognition by uniting Aorus marketing under one team
The gaming market has gradually grown to become a new battlefield among IT vendors thanks to related...
Q&A: Gigabyte preparing full series of gaming notebooks
Despite the gaming notebook market's strong popularity, competition has always been fierce between...
- 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...
- Wireless broadband developments in Southeast Asia markets
As of 2013, the 10 ASEAN nations had a total of over 700 million mobile subscriptions, with the CAGR from 2003-2013 reaching 24%. This Digitimes Research Special Report analyzes the various mobile broadband markets in ASEAN and looks at the respective trends in 4G LTE development for those markets.
- 2015 global tablet demand forecast
This Digitimes Research Special Report provides a 2015 forecast for the global tablet market and analyzes the strategies of key market players such as Google, Apple, Intel, and Microsoft.
- 2015 China smartphone panel trend forecast
This Digitimes Research Special Report analyzes the strategies of key China-based major panel makers BOE, Tianma and IVO for attacking the different market segments through technology and pricing, and their relationship to local vendors Huawei, Lenovo, ZTE, Xiaomi and Coolpad.