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Living on the IP edge: Q&A with Vitesse CTO Martin Nuss
Monday 21 January 2013
Vitesse Semiconductor has been a major player in the semiconductor industry for the past 28 years, from its role in the telecom area in the heyday of SONET/SDH to becoming involved in the Ethernet side of the business since...

Thursday 3 January 2013
China-based Huawei Technologies has always been known for its telecom technologies and equipment, but seeing the rise of cloud computing, the company has also become aggressive about the enterprise market. Digitimes recently...

The challenge for mobile telecom carriers: Q&A with FET president Yvonne Li
Wednesday 19 December 2012
Along with increasing use of smartphones, competition among mobile telecom carriers is changing and they are faced with a big challenge to transform themselves into total solution suppliers for mobile Internet connectivity,...

China aiming at balanced development: Q&A with Digitimes Research analyst Joanne Chien
Monday 14 February 2011
The 12th Five-Year Plan that China is implementing next month has a very different focus than those in the past, namely it is aiming at a more balanced development of the country by restructuring its industries and regional...

China 3G market growing fast: Q&A with Digitimes Research analyst Roger Huang
Wednesday 8 December 2010
The China telecom market officially entered the 3G era just two years ago, much later than some of its neighbors, such as Japan and Taiwan. But its 3G market will be growing fast in the next few years, and Digitimes Research...

China's triple network convergence: Q&A with Digitimes Research analyst Tom Lo
Monday 20 September 2010
China has devised a policy for the convergence of its broadcast, telecom and Internet networks. According to Digitimes Research analyst Tom Lo, the

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...
Media phones and portable video conferencing: Q&A with UMEC's Kevin Mar
Thursday 3 June 2010
With the economic recovery still on shaky ground and instability rearing its head throughout the world, companies have continued to trim business travel budgets. To stay connected, businesses are relying more than ever...

The next billion users: Q&A with Intel's Stanley Huang
Wednesday 2 June 2010
Intel has always taken center stage at Computex Taipei, and this year Digitimes has the great pleasure to sit down with Stanley Huang, managing director of Advanced Technical Sales and Services, Intel APAC. Huang is one...

Thursday 10 September 2009
Demand for telecom equipment in the North Asia region is expected to stage a major upturn in the fourth quarter of 2009 as carriers in the region are beginning to deploy their LTE (Long Term Evolution) and GPON (Gigabit...

Interview with Dr. Chii-Ming Yiin, Taiwan's Minister of Economic Affairs
Tuesday 10 June 2008
Digitimes recently had the opportunity to interview Taiwan's new Economics Minister Dr. Chii-Ming Yiin, to discuss current issues being handled by Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA), including regulations on investments...

Thursday 5 June 2008
John Hsuan, vice chairman of United Microelectronic Corporation (UMC) and concurrently chairman of Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL), is a 30-year veteran of the Taiwan IT industry and has witnessed numerous shifts...

Tuesday 12 June 2007
VoIP telephony is increasingly being adopted in use around the world and Wi-Fi handsets are playing an ever larger role in this sector. Milos Djokovic, CEO and president of Zi Corporation, a company that specializes in...

Monday 12 March 2007
Competition for the global telecom network equipment market promises to be fierce in 2007, heating up by the official operations of Alcatel-Lucent starting December 2006, Ericsson's announcement to acquire Redback Networks...

3G or WiMAX: Conversation with Hakan Eriksson, senior vice president and CTO of Ericsson
Wednesday 27 September 2006
The development of 3G and HSPA (High Speed Packet Access) technologies still remains the current focus of the mobile communications industry, and chances are low that WiMAX will become a mainstream standard since it is...

Digital TV on your cell phone soon: Q&A with David Chang of Siano, part three
Tuesday 18 July 2006
Industry observers and analysts are always on the look-out for the next big thing. Many of them think that the next big thing could be in a very small form factor – digital TV on the mobile phone and possibly other...

ANT Software: it remains to be seen how Microsoft and Cisco IPTV solutions will evolve
Thursday 11 May 2006
As a pioneer of a new technology, called IPTV (Internet Protocol Television), that delivers digital TV services to subscribers using the IP protocol over a broadband connection, UK-based ANT Software has already obtained...

Thursday 19 January 2006
Embedded processors are now central to the converged environment that many in the IT and electronics industries are calling the digital home. Noam Shendar, director of Strategic Marketing for MIPS Technologies, argues that...

Tuesday 27 September 2005
Alcatel Shanghai Bell (ASB), a joint venture signed in May 2002 between France-based Alcatel and the Chinese government, is already a major production base for Alcatel’s products, including fixed-line telecom equipment,...

Q&A with Eric Yu, vice president of Juniper, Greater China
Thursday 22 September 2005
Juniper Networks has made significant inroads into China’s telecom market over the past two years, including successfully winning a large contract to help build China Telecom's next-generation backbone network, known...

Consumer multimedia and the digital home: Q&A with YU Lee of STMicroelectronics
Wednesday 21 September 2005
As a “classical” IDM, with some 50,000 employees, STMicroelectronics is strongly positioned to be a major supplier of electronics for consumer multimedia and the digital home. That’s not to say that “ST”...

Developing the Skype ecosystem: Q&A with CEO Niklas Zennstrom
Friday 2 September 2005
Taiwan companies, which boast a strong capability in the manufacture of IT hardware products, are likely to become important partners for Skype Technologies as the company looks to broaden its application software to IT...

Interviewing Vitesse, part one
Tuesday 30 August 2005
Last month, Vitesse Semiconductor opened a Customer Technology Center in Taipei. Equipped with a lab, the new center gives customers access to Vitesse's team of application engineers, for assistance with complex communications...

Making wireless mesh a reality: Accton moves ahead in 802.11s
Thursday 25 August 2005
Wireless-mesh networking is like a rare species – often talked about but seldom seen in the wild. One Taiwan company busy turning mesh networking into reality is Accton Technology, which showed its WA6102-WM wireless-mesh...

Next-generation Wi-Fi from Metalink: Q&A with VP David Pereg
Wednesday 27 July 2005
Headquartered in Israel, with design centers in both the US and Israel, Metalink Broadband is moving ahead with wireless LAN at the 802.11n standard and recently announced a new chipset family designed to support video...
TSMC presence in advance process market remains strong
Bits + chips | 7h 25min ago
Chicony seeks growth from non-notebook product lines
IT + CE | 8h 20min ago
Taiwan April export order value slightly down on month, year, says MOEA
Bits + chips | 8h 29min ago
Global large-size panel shipments exceed 65 million units in April 2013, says WitsView
Displays | 8h 30min ago
Supply chain to begin volume shipments of new Xbox console orders in 3Q13
IT + CE | 8h 32min ago
MediaTek 2Q13 sales likely to beat guidance
Bits + chips | 8h 45min ago
Taiwan makers expected to benefit from Lenovo targeting smartphones in 2013
Mobile + telecom | 8h 47min ago
Digitimes Research: Taiwan LCD driver IC shipments rise 22% in 1Q13
Bits + chips | 8h 49min ago
Taiwan panel makers lower pricing for Ultra HD TV panels
Displays | 8h 51min ago
Taiwan April export order value slightly down on month, year, says MOEA
Before Going to Press | 8h 43min ago
Global large-size panel shipments exceed 65 million units in April 2013, says WitsView
Before Going to Press | 8h 47min ago
Touchscreen IC, LED driver IC suppliers to post strong May
Before Going to Press | 8h 48min ago
Win Semi expects to post double-digit revenue growth in 2013
Before Going to Press | 8h 49min ago
TPK expected to see decline in touch screen notebook panel shipments during 2Q13
Before Going to Press | 8h 49min ago
Demand for large-size driver ICs to boom in 2H13, say backend firms
Before Going to Press | 8h 52min ago
Epistar expects revenue proportion for LED used in lighting to rise to 30%
Before Going to Press | 8h 52min ago
HTC cooperates with KDDI to launch HTC One in Japan market
Before Going to Press | 8h 54min ago
Innolux expected to ship 1 million TOD units in 2013
Before Going to Press | 9h 4min ago
- Trial production of 5th-generation iPad to begin soon, say Taiwan makers
- Handset vendors in discussion over producing 6-inch and larger phones
- Taiwan component makers conservative about growth in 2H13 notebook shipments
- Taiwan-based analog IC suppliers facing increasing competition from rivals in China
- Commentary: High-end LED lighting in demand
- AUO supply of iPad mini panels in 2Q13 expected to slip sequentially
- More firms provide crystal-less USB 3.0 device controllers
- BLU makers report different results in 1Q13
- ChipMOS capex for 2013 to reach NT$2.5-2.8 billion
- BIOS designers feel the impact from weak PC market
- Apple MacBook orders to rise 20% sequentially in 2Q13
- Capella tops analog IC suppliers with highest EPS in 1Q13
- LED firms to lower prices through improved technology
- Digitimes Research: Europe solar trade tariffs may slow down market growth
- Getac aims at expanding ruggedized PC market share to 30%
- Ruggedized PC vendors eyeing 7- to 8-inch tablet market
- Wintek to reportedly set up joint venture 6G touch panel factory in China with Nanjing Panda Electronics
- China market: Several smartphone components in short supply
- Taiwan LED firms to attend Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition 2013
- Asia Pacific leads worldwide mobile phone sales growth in 1Q13, says Gartner
- SMA Technology sees 1Q13 revenues fall on year
- SunPower announces fiscal 2013 financial guidance
- LED plant factory market to reach US$1.2 billion in 2013, says PIDA
- Equipment maker Acter sees profits down in 1Q13
- Asustek unveils Intel 8 series motherboards
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- Weak eurozone growth hits euro (May 15) - The Financial Times
- German factory orders rise for second month (May 7) - Bloomberg
- Eurozone retail sales fall for second consecutive month (May 6) - BBC News
- China economy to stay commodity-oriented, says JPMorgan (April 16) - Bloomberg
- S Korea in US$15.3 billion stimulus bid to spur economic growth (April 16) - BBC News
- Gold hit by sharpest tumble in 30 years (April 16) - CNN
- FBI probes Boston 'terror' blasts (April 16) - BBC News
- China GDP growth slows to 7.7% (April 14) - Wall Street Journal
- Releases
- White papers
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- DIGIEVER partnership with EverFocus for better professional network surveillance solutions
- Advantech Introduces New 18" and 21" Widescreen Multitouch Panel PCs
- Digital Network Fuels Opportunities in Vehicle Surveillance Market
- Advantech Redefines Entry Level Network Application Platforms
- WD shipping world's first 5 mm 2.5-inch hard drive
- 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
- Emb' Store On-Demand Software Service for Embedded Computing
- Efficient Network Management for Digital Signage
- Design Benefits of the MI/O Extension Solution
- ATO Solution Co., Ltd. to launch 1Gb SLC NAND Flash after 256Mb/512Mb mass production for the first time in Fab-less industry
- Chilisin's miniature power inductor in 0603/0805 sizes
- Chilisin introduces Thin-film chip inductor 0201 size
- Chilisin at 2012 electronics Munich A5/159 & 260
- Chilisin sunken-type molded power inductor for MXM Graphic application

Opportunity lies for MEMS energy harvesting: Q&A with Holst Centre general manager Bert Gyselinckx
Digitimes recently interviewed Bert Gyselinckx, general manager of the Holst Centre in Eindhoven, to...

Returning with stronger competitiveness: Q&A with Lu Li-Cheng, Chaintech chairman
Chaintech, a motherboard/graphics card maker, which quit the market once and returned recently, has...

MEMS-enabled energy harvesting: Q&A with MIG executive director Karen Lightman
Digitimes recently spoke with Karen Lightman, the executive director of MEMS Industry Group (MIG),...

Complete mobile platform solutions: Q&A with Broadcom executive VP Robert Rango
In a relentless competition against rivals including Qualcomm, Nvidia and Media in the smartphone chipset...
- 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...
- Trends and shipment forecast for 2H 2012 tablet market
Digitimes Research remains conservative about the prospects for the period, with half-year shipments projected to reach 49.18 million units and whole-year shipments being revised downward to 88.69 million units.
- Trends in the China video market
In addition to strong potential video content demand in China, the market has developed rapidly due to government intervention and delays in establishing copyright protections.
- 4Q12 trends in the Greater China touch panel industry
In the second half of 2012, the market focus is on the iPhone 5, which uses in-cell touch screen technology. Due to the integration of display panels and touch panel functions, the high technological threshold will mean Taiwan touch panel makers are unable to enter the iPhone supply chain.

















