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Thursday 22 November 2012
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has received Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certifications for its green buidlings. Digitimes recently sat down with Arthur Chuang, director of TSMC's...
Focus on advanced processes: Q&A with Alchip chairman Kinying Kwan
Monday 11 July 2011
Founded in 2003 by semiconductor veterans from Silicon Valley and Japan, Alchip provides silicon design and manufacturing services for companies developing complex and high-volume system-on-chip (SoC) designs. Digitimes...
Emerging markets to drive China foundries' growth: Q&A with Digitimes Research analyst Nobunaga Chai
Thursday 24 February 2011
China's foundries may not be able to compete head-to-head against the industry's global top-three players in the most advanced process technologies, but their opportunities lie elsewhere - their own country and other emerging...
MEMS mass production to lead to increased foundry outsourcing: Q&A with Siimpel CEO Chee Kwan
Monday 20 October 2008
Increasing global demand for smartphones has resulted in related advancements in handset functionality and increased competition among component suppliers. In August of this year, Siimpel announced that it MEMS-based silicon...
- Taiwan IC suppliers to benefit as Samsung steps up purchases of IC parts
- MediaTek hikes 4G smartphone solution shipment target for 2014
- Silicon Motion looks to 15-20% sequential revenue growth in 3Q14
- Radiant Opto-Electronics nets NT$3.07 per share for 1H14
- HTC conservative about 3Q14
- Russia market: Smartphone competition heating up
- Solartech mulls shift of solar cell capacity abroad in response to US anti-dumping taxation
- UMC to ramp 28nm wafer capacity
- Young Optics 1H14 net profit down over 60% on year
- Unimicron net profits up significantly in 2Q14
- Digitimes Research: Promotion of HEMS appliances in Japan faces problems
- Vendors cutting notebook shipments to Latin America
- AUO expects 5-8% growth in 3Q14 small- to medium-size panel shipments
- Intel to see difficulties shipping 40 million tablet CPUs in 2014
- Taiwan PV makers hope to set floor prices in place of US anti-dumping tax
- Taiwan sets quality standards for LED light bulbs
- AUO reports staggering profit growth for 2Q14
- Digitimes Research: Taiwan digital camera shipments in 2Q14 up 43.3% sequentially
- PCB/LCD equipment supplier Asia Neo Tech to debut on Taiwan OTC market
- Taiwan 2Q14 economic growth rate upward adjusted to 3.84%, says DGBAS
- Digitimes Research: China vendors ship over 101 million smartphones in 2Q14
- Digitimes Research: Taiwan ships 351.4 million small- to mid-size panels in 2Q14
- Macronix to start 8-inch OEM wafer business
- MediaTek 3Q14 revenues to grow 6-11% on quarter, say sources
- Taiwan market: InFocus to launch smartphone M810
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- China warns US solar anti-dumping duties will damage trade relations (Jul 28) - International Bussiness Times
- 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
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- Greater China touch panel shipment forecast through 2015
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- 2014 global tablet demand forecast
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