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Turning a smartphone into a PC in a pocket: Q&A with Analogix
Tuesday 10 June 2014
According to a recent IDC research note, the transition toward mobile and cloud-based computing is unstoppable, with tablet volumes expected to pass total PC volume in the fourth quarter of 2014 and on an annual basis in...
Time ripe for development of smart peripherals: Q&A with Arima Communications president Owen Chen
Tuesday 19 November 2013
Smartphone ODM Arima Communications has decided to expand its product lines to include tablets, smart accessories and other new products, optimizing its platform development expertise gained from the smartphone sector and...
Make good products and growth will come naturally: Q&A with Gigabyte notebook team
Wednesday 5 June 2013
Despite being one of the market leaders in the motherboard and graphics card industries, Gigabyte Technology is relatively unknown as a notebook player. Digitimes recently sat down with Richard Ma, Gigabyte Senior Vice...
Tuesday 27 November 2012
Asustek Computer's Zenbooks, Transformer tablets and the Nexus 7 have helped expand its brand recognition, raising its share in the North America notebook market from 7% in the second quarter of 2012, to 8% in the third...
From hardware vendor to turnkey solution provider: Q&A with Shuttle
Wednesday 6 June 2012
The PC hardware industry has begun to evolve rapidly in recent years. The emergence of various hardware and software solutions and platforms has enabled hardware players to differentiate their products by venturing into...
Tuesday 24 April 2012
As iPad is expected to account for close to 60% of the global tablet PC market, while Apple has also launched iBook 2 and iBook Author to compete in the educational market, bringing strong pressure on its competitors such...
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...
The new frontier in mobile computing: Q&A with Qualcomm EVP Steve Mollenkopf
Tuesday 31 May 2011
Current trends in mobile devices have substantially changed how we think about computing in general, and looking at the market shows that these tectonic shifts will affect the entire supply chain, from semiconductor providers...
Acer aims at largest global market share for tablet PCs in 2-3 years, says CEO
Friday 26 November 2010
Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci, at a press conference for Taiwan-based media in New York, stressed that faced with increasing competition for tablet PCs in the global market, Acer takes a fearless attitude and will avail itself...
Toward increased mobility: Q&A with ARM president Tudor Brown
Wednesday 24 November 2010
More than 20 billion ARM-powered processors have been shipped by semiconductor and system companies worldwide over the past 20 years, and the number is expected to top 100 billion in the next decade, according to ARM president,...
Broadcom talks about growing opportunities in wireless
Friday 4 June 2010
Michael Hurlston, senior vice president and general manager for the Home and Wireless Networking Business Unit at chip specialist Broadcom recently sat down with Digitimes to share his outlook for the wireless networking...
Innolux reports NT$12.1 billion in 2Q17 net profit
Displays | 2h 41min ago
Shanghai forms CNY50 billion IC industry investment fund
Bits + chips | 3h 15min ago
UMC expects flat 3Q17
Bits + chips | 3h 18min ago
Taiwan market: Sunny Founder scores points in PV crowdfunding
Green energy | 4h 42min ago
Shuttle may turn profitable in 2Q17, says paper
IT + CE | 4h 57min ago
UMC planning 28HPC, 22ULP processes
Before Going to Press | 3h 30min ago
IPC maker Aaeon to return to Taiwan stock market in August
Before Going to Press | 3h 38min ago
Taiwan panel makers ready to face challenge from China 10.5G line
Before Going to Press | 4h 24min ago
Elan posts EPS of NT$1.04 in 1H17
Before Going to Press | 4h 47min ago
Digitimes Research: Taiwan, global monitor shipments decline in 2Q17
Before Going to Press | 4h 48min ago
TSMC, UMC offer higher prices to secure wafer supplies
Before Going to Press | 5h 10min ago
Supply of 8-inch silicon wafers to remain tight through 1H18
Before Going to Press | 5h 11min ago
AUO not pessimistic about business outlook for 2H17
Before Going to Press | 5h 48min ago
- Taiwan IC design service and IP firms land AI chip orders from China
- AUO reports NT$9.83 billion in net profit for 2Q17
- Toshiba transfers Phison shares to memory unit
- LG Display announces KRW7.8 trillion OLED fab plans
- Young Optics suffers 1H17 net loss per share of NT$0.97
- PTI optimistic about 3Q17
- Deren develops USB 3.1 front-panel internal connectors and cables
- Taiwan solar cell makers lag in using diamond wire-sliced solar-grade polycrystalline wafers
- Global TV panel shipments stagnant in 1H17, says firm
- Taiwan first IoT venture capital of NT$4 billion to be available by end of September
- Taiwan market: Motorola launches Moto Z2 Play
- Taiwan to host WCIT 2017
- Taiwan market: Smartphone sales rebound in June
- China may hike 2020 target cumulative PV installation capacity to 150GWp, says IHS
- Taiwan sees 2015 technology trade deficit of NT$123.9 billion, says MOEA
- SPIL net profits hike in 2Q17
- China January-June software revenues reach CNY2.558 trillion, says MIIT
- Merry reports strong earnings for 2Q17
- RiTdisplay to report impressive EPS in 1H17, says report
- China sets standards for 3rd-round model PV power-generating stations
- KIMM succeeds in producing Micro LED panels using roll-to-roll transfer technology
- MediaTek to transfer 28nm chip orders to UMC
- AMD reports net loss of US$16 million for 2Q17
- Inventec reports losses for subsidiary TPV-Inventa
- Taiwan market: Canon to launch DSLR camera EOS 6D Mark II
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- Corning and Gerresheimer collaborate to deliver new Corning Valor Glass to pharmaceutical packaging market (Jul 24) - Company release
- KAIST to host 2017 AI World Cup in November (Jul 14) - Company release
- Vizio files US$100 million lawsuit against LeEco (Jul 12) - TechCrunch
- Huawei and partners release world's first operational NB-IoT electrical energy smart meters in Portugal (Jul 12) - Company release
- Samsung quietly acquires Greek text-to-speech startup Innoetics for under US$50 million (Jul 11) - TechCrunch
- Microsoft to cut 'thousands' of jobs (Jul 6) - BBC News
- China's Tencent shrugs off impact of play-time limits (Jul 5) - Reuters
- Tencent introduces limit to combat online gaming addiction (Jul 3) - BBC News
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- Torex unveils in-vehicle voltage detectors with watchdog function
- Dialog takes the lead to drive RF-based wireless charging to create whole new user experiences
- Microsemi announces general availability of engineering samples for its lowest power, cost-optimized mid-range PolarFire FPGAs
- TUV NORD calls upon vendors to prepare for growing importance of Automotive SPICE
- Cista Design selects Kilopass OTP NVM for next generation CMOS image sensor on SMIC developed 130nm back side illumination technology platform
- Unisys IT Implementation of Unisys Stealth Solution for Data Center Segmentation
- AccuTouch Five Wire Resistive Touchscreens
- Getting the Most Out Of Your Next Generation Digital Security Surveillance System
- Embracing the New Generation Intel Atom Family with DDR3 Memory Support
- Got The Message? Ensuring efficient and reliable delivery of content across a mission critical digital signage network
- Perforce Software Wins Develop Industry Excellence Award for the Second Year in a Row
- Perforce Teams with Leading Git Client Developer fournova
- Perforce Introduces Helix GitSwarm: Flexible Git Ecosystem Mirrored to a Powerful Mainline Repository
- Perforce Helix Distributed Version Control System Brings Greater Flexibility While Maintaining Enterprise-class Security, Auditability and Control
- Perforce Powers Development of Legacy Quest for iOS and Android
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- Taiwan market: Paypal enhances service by disabling domestic payment processing
- Corning talks up 3D cell cultures in Taiwan
- Digitimes Research: Samsung Note 7 issues may help Apple to regain number-1 crown in 4Q16
- 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
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...
Wireless charging demand promising: Q&A with Dialog CEO Jalal Bagherli
As a global leader in providing rapid charging solutions, Dialog Semiconductor has demonstrated its...
- 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.