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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...
Prices for solar-grade monocrystalline, polycrystalline silicon wafers drop to US$0.68, US$0.50
Green energy | 5h 18min ago
Taiwan August manufacturing production index up on month, year, says MOEA
Bits + chips | 7h 30min ago
Nvidia CEO denies competing with partnering graphics vendors with Founder Edition
Before Going to Press | 5h 37min ago
Digitimes Research: IoT devices to reach cumulative volume of 38-50 billion units in 2020
Before Going to Press | 5h 41min ago
Taiwan August manufacturing production index up on month, year, says MOEA
Before Going to Press | 5h 43min ago
IC distributors look to brisk 4Q16 results
Before Going to Press | 5h 43min ago
PTI buys equipment for wafer-level packaging
Before Going to Press | 5h 45min ago
China polysilicon makers lower prices to below CNY90/kg
Before Going to Press | 5h 46min ago
Taiwan market: Asustek Computer to launch ZenBook 3 series
Before Going to Press | 5h 48min ago
Japan market: JDI may release shares to Sharp
Before Going to Press | 6h 10min ago
TSMC orders equipment for NT$2.32 billion
Before Going to Press | 6h 12min ago
Asustek , Gigabyte expected to ship around 17.5 million motherboards in 2016
Before Going to Press | 8h 29min ago
India market: Foxconn to produce smartphones for OnePlus in India in 4Q16
Before Going to Press | 8h 31min ago
- Potential of wireless charging technology: Q&A with WPC chairman Menno Treffers
- Lithium battery makers demand price rise due to shortages
- Micron CEO visits Taiwan to meet Formosa executives
- Rising notebook demand causing shortages in many components
- Digitimes Research: China starts tightening up control on third-party payment service companies
- Taiwan market: Xiaomi launches Redmi Note 4
- Worldwide security appliance market growth driven by strong UTM performance in 1H16, says IDC
- Apple still leads in smartwatch sales, but sector growth slow, says Kantar Worldpanel
- Chilisin signs NT$3.5 billion syndicated loan
- Foxconn could expand SiP business with Sharp chip unit
- Taiwan 2Q16 TFT-LCD production value up on quarter, down on year, says PIDA
- Digitimes Research: TD-LTE development faces disadvantages
- Foxconn permitted to repair iPhone at subsidiary in Shanxi, China, says paper
- China HLMC to build new 12-inch fab
- SES-imagotag to acquire Pervasive Displays
- China market: 32- to 50-inch LCD TV prices up, says Sigmaintell
- Taiwan market: Lite-On Technology to supply over 150,000 LED street lamps
- E Ink to end LCM production
- EverDisplay Optronics to set up 6G AMOLED factory, says paper
- Taiwan government aims to install 3 million low-voltage smart power meters in 2024
- Kenmec secures more than NT$3 billion worth of automation equipment orders, says report
- AMOLED to surpass a-Si LCD as leading technology for small- to medium-size displays in 2016, says IHS
- Delta becomes core member of CharIN
- Nvidia GTC 2016 shows artificial intelligence innovations
- Cadence, TSMC advance 7nm FinFET designs for mobile and HPC platforms
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- Japan government may divest Japan Display stake if its technology is commoditized, says industry minister (Sep 20) - NASDAQ.com
- Microsoft to close Skype's London office (Sep 17) - The Financial Times
- Samsung sells stakes in four companies (Sep 19) - BBC News
- China infrastructure investment model under fire (Sep 11) - The Financial Times
- Brexit: Japan warns firms may move European HQ out of Britain (Sep 5) - BBC News
- Three days after removing human editors, Facebook is already trending fake news (Aug 29) - Washington Post
- Taiwan's new digital minister is a transgender software programmer who wants to make government more open (Aug 26) - Quartz
- Paytm in talks to raise Rs 2,000 crore from Goldman Sachs, Temasek, Mediatek (Aug 29) - Economic Times
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- Digitimes Research: 4 million 9.7-inch iPad Pros to ship in 1H16
- Digitimes Research: Global all-in-one PC shipments to drop 3.9% on year in 2015
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- Digitimes Research: iPad Pro shipments to be less than 3 million units in 4Q15
Potential of wireless charging technology: Q&A with WPC chairman Menno Treffers
To help foster the development of related wireless charging technology in Taiwan, the Wireless Power...
Business planning in the cloud: Q&A with Anaplan
Silicon Valley based Anaplan, a cloud-based planning and performance management platform provider,...
The strengths of Gorilla Glass 5: Q&A with Corning executive James Hollis
Corning in late July released its latest cover glass, Gorilla Glass 5, to provide better protection...
Industry integration, 5G and IoT applications: Q&A with Qualcomm president Derek Aberle
Qualcomm president Derek Aberle spared his time with Digitimes for an exclusive interview...
- 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.