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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...
- Digitimes Research: Global high-brightness LED value estimated over US$12.7 billion in 2014
- MediaTek to post shipment drop in 1Q14
- Foxconn reportedly to start production of small-size OLED panels in 2015
- Digitimes Research: MediaTek to become AP market leader in 2014
- ASE likely to lose orders as plants might shut down over toxic leaks
- TSMC moves 16nm FinFET to risk production
- HTC One smartphones still available in UK after court stays injunction
- Taiwan market: CHT, FET to start selling iPad Air, iPad mini with Retina display
- G-Tech to offer green building glass
- Sub 50-inch segment to take up 60% of Ultra HD TV panel output in 2014
- Compeq to report record revenues for 4Q13
- Digitimes Research: Taiwan makers to ship 35.95 million LCD TVs in 2014
- AMD slashes desktop CPU prices
- Compal acquires new enterprise notebook orders for 2014 from HP
- Brand vendors to back down from releasing touchscreen conventional notebooks in 2014
- Suntech announces update on subsidiary share transfers and restructuring process
- Concentrated PV solar installations set to boom, says IHS
- Genesis Photonics looks to LED street lamp demand in China
- IC distributor Anstek reports flat performance for November
- MLCC suppliers Holy Stone, 3H post mixed November results
- Film-based touch panel makers to benefit from fast growing demand for inexpensive smartphones in 2014
- Falling memory prices erode Adata profits, says report
- Global 3Q13 semiconductor equipment billings drop 16% on year, says SEMI
- Xilinx begins delivering 20nm chips
- Passive component supplier Nichidenbo sales up slightly in November
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- Samsung promotes chairman's daughter to president (December 2) - Yonhap News
- BlackBerry announces management and board changes (Nov 25) - Company release
- Qualcomm faces China antitrust probe (Nov 26) - BBC News
- Samsung to pay Apple US$290m for copying phones (Nov 22) - BBC News
- Per Lindstrand plans inflatable 1km solar chimney (Nov 20) - BBC News
- LG investigates smart TV 'unauthorised spying' claim (Nov 20) - BBC News
- Co-CEOs: Are two better than one? - ChiefExecutive.net
- Taiwan restricts Chinese investment amid trade pact review (November 14) - Bloomberg
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- GIGABYTE announces 'Feel the Force' OC contest winners
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Transformation: Q&A with ChipMOS chairman and CEO SJ Cheng
ChipMOS Technologies is among very few firms that have transformed themselves successfully and are...
The 4G opportunity: Q&A with executives from major Taiwan telecom carriers
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), Taiwan Mobile (TWM) and Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET), the three largest...
Time ripe for development of smart peripherals: Q&A with Arima Communications president Owen Chen
Smartphone ODM Arima Communications has decided to expand its product lines to include tablets, smart...
Focus on enterprise SSD: Q&A with OCZ CMO Alex Mei
OCZ Technology shifted its corporate focus away from legacy DRAM memory modules in 2011, and has since...
- 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 flat panel display industry outlook, 2013-2016
This Digitimes Research Special Report outlines and analyzes the key trends and players that are influencing the continued development of China large-size and small-to medium size TFT LCD panel industry, while providing related growth forecasts for the industry through 2016.
- TD-LTE market developments and forecast, 2014-2016
TD-LTE has become the mainstream global choice for the construction of 4G asymmetric frequency spectrum networks. This Digitimes Research Special Report examines the current global status of TD-LTE, and forecasts developments in the TD-LTE supply chain in China and worldwide through 2016.
- ASPs of TD-LTE chips to remain stable initially as suppliers are limited
While a number of IC vendors have begun shipping chips supporting TD-LTE, including base band chips, radio frequency chips, APs, SoC solutions and soft modems, shipments of base band chips account for a majority share of total TD-LTE chip shipments currently, according to Digitimes Research.