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Friday 21 February 2014
While Digitimes is known as a media outlet, the company also includes a business unit that solely focuses on market research. Run independently from the Digitimes news organization, Digitimes Research provides market intelligence...
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...
Digital power supply: Q&A with Compuware executive
Wednesday 5 June 2013
While natural resources are being drained slowly, energy costs are rising and demand for advanced power supply options is increasing. One of these options is digital power supply, which provides advanced power efficiency...
Eyeing the gaming market: Q&A with ECS executive Sam Yeh
Wednesday 5 June 2013
As many motherboard players have started paying attention to the gaming market, Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS), as a major motherboard vendor, is also set to expand its gaming business with a new product series. In addition,...
The greening of Taiwan: Q&A with Siemens Taiwan CEO Peter Weiss
Tuesday 6 December 2011
While Taiwan is not usually thought of as being at the forefront of the green revolution, Taipei happened to perform quite well in the Asian Green Index published earlier this year. The Index was the result of a research...
The PV inverter boom: Q&A with Digitimes Research analyst Sophia Chen
Monday 25 April 2011
The PV inverter market managed a staggering shipment growth of 132% to 19.8GWp because of strong demand, according to Sophia Chen, author of the recently published Digitimes Research Special Report, "
The LED upstream boom: Q&A with Digitimes Research analyst Jessie Lin
Wednesday 9 March 2011
With LED chipmakers aggressively increasing capacity to meet fast growing demand from the LCD displays and general lighting markets, suppliers in the upstream are optimistic on outlook for 2011. The following is an interview...
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...
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...
Wednesday 19 January 2011
The touch panel market has been expanding fast since the Apple iPhone launch captivated the world with its touchscreen magic. According to Digitimes Research analyst, Jason Yang - the author of the Special Report, "
China may see LCD panel oversupply in 2H12: Q&A with Digitimes Research senior analyst Tony Huang
Wednesday 29 December 2010
Local and foreign players are scrambling to build next-generation large-size TFT LCD panel fabs in China, which is expected to become the largest LCD TV market in the world in 2011. Digitimes Research senior analyst Tony...
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...
Will Shuttle stay high-end or look to go mainstream: An interview with Jonathan Yi
Thursday 2 June 2005
A long-term fixture in Taiwan’s motherboard industry, Shuttle phased out its motherboard business at the end of 2004, and now focuses its business around its XPC small-form-factor (SFF) PCs. DigiTimes.com recently...
The XPC factor: An interview with Ken Huang, the man behind the Shuttle XPC
Tuesday 1 February 2005
Although the PC industry has always seen variations of small-form-factor (SFF) PCs, it was only when Shuttle Computer introduced its first XPC about four years ago that the segment really took on a life of its own. Shuttle...
LPWAN offers two-way communications for data collection, remote control
Mobile + telecom | 11h 47min ago
Taiwan foreign direct investment totals US$4.9 billion in January-August
Bits + chips | Sep 20, 19:03
Taiwan August export order value increases
Bits + chips | Sep 20, 18:54
Taiwan market: Optoma launches LED projector
Displays | Sep 20, 18:43
EU sets new minimum prices for China PV imports
Before Going to Press | 10h 55min ago
Google Play eyes opportunities from VR, AR, Chromebook
Before Going to Press | 11h 50min ago
KYEC grabs testing orders for analog, PA chips from Murata
Before Going to Press | Sep 20, 19:24
Innolux to expand 6G fab capacity
Before Going to Press | Sep 20, 19:14
Japan, Korea, Taiwan among top-5 Google Play markets
Before Going to Press | Sep 20, 19:13
DRAM bit growth to reach 19.6% in 2018, says DRAMeXchange
Before Going to Press | Sep 20, 19:09
Tokyo Electron optimistic about etching equipment demand for 3D NAND, FinFET
Before Going to Press | Sep 20, 18:57
HTC in trading halt pending release of material information
Before Going to Press | Sep 20, 18:49
TSMC to hold over 70% of PWM IC orders from Qualcomm
Before Going to Press | Sep 20, 18:48
Taiwan August export order value increases
Before Going to Press | Sep 20, 18:42
Taiwan foreign direct investment totals US$4.9 billion in January-August
Before Going to Press | Sep 20, 18:38
- Taiwan GloRIA project to connect academics with industrial resources
- Diverse LPWAN specs available for different IoT applications
- UL to help Taiwan set up certification capability for offshore wind farms
- Intel reschedules Cannon Lake launch to year-end 2018, say sources
- EIH, Plastic Logic strengthen e-paper partnership
- NAND flash supply to stay tight til end-2017, says Phison chairman
- Touch Taiwan 2017: GIS, Young Fast demonstrating touch panel technologies
- Acer increases marketing budget for gaming notebooks
- Touch Taiwan 2017: ITRI showcases flexible display, touch technologies
- India PV firms eyeing overseas markets
- PCB firm Unitech president steps down
- Taiwan market: CHT teams up with Fox+ to provide OTT service
- Touch Taiwan 2017: Corning showcases advanced glass technologies
- Intel provides 10nm updates, plan for 10nm FPGA
- China market: All-screen smartphone shipments ramping up
- GuoDian United Power to sell stake in wind turbine maker
- Asustek new strategy gives priority to profitability
- Taiwan market: Low pricing alarms PV supply chain
- PlayNitride to kick off trial production for Micro LED panels at year-end 2017
- TUV Rheinland launches photobiological safety lab in South Korea
- FormoSat-5 sends blurry images
- Leading-edge paves way for pure-play foundry growth, says IC Insights
- Synopsys tapes out DesignWare, Interface IP for TSMC 7nm FinFET process
- Synnex applies AI to logistics operation in China, says paper
- Dell sees solid on-year growth in worldwide monitor market in 2Q17, says IDC
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- Trump blocks China-backed bid to buy US chipmaker (Sep 13) - New York Times
- Yen may strengthen to 100 against the dollar by year end, HSBC says (Sep 14) - Bloomberg
- Reactions to Apple iPhone X (Sep 13) - BBC News
- Apple suffers 'major iPhone X leak' (Sep 11) - BBC News
- South Korean court rejects Qualcomm's request to suspend antitrust body's order (Sep 5) - Reuters
- Apple and Accenture partner to create iOS business solutions (Aug 29) - Company release
- Google error disrupts corporate Japan's web traffic (Aug 28) - BBC News
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- ISSI introduces AEC-Q100 qualified SLC NAND Flash for automotive and industrial markets
- Taiwan ETC wins WITSA's Private Sector Excellence Award
- ISSI receives Bosch Global Supplier Award
- Tatung smart appliance and energy management services bolstered by Microsoft Azure
- CHD Tech refines maintenance service for photolithography equipment to help semiconductor foundries raise process yield and equipment availability
- 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
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- Digitimes Research: Top-5 notebook brand and top-3 ODMs see shipments slide on month in July
- Micron executive skeptical about UFS
- Enterprise board choices with new AMD and Intel CPU platforms: Whom to support?
- Frankfurt ISC 2017 post-show European high end computing adventure: a place in Taiwan for it?
- Taiwan market: Paypal enhances service by disabling domestic payment processing
- 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
5G brings new business opportunities: Q&A with Alpha Networks chairman John Lee
Taiwan-based networking device maker Alpha Networks has expanded its product lines from mainly Ethernet...
At the 2017 World Congress on Information Industry (WCIT) held September 11-13 in Taipei, there were...
With autonomous driving becoming a new trend in the IT market, many first-tier IT players including...
Recipes for tapping Indonesia market: Q&A with Trans Electric branch GM CH Liu
Sharply rising operating costs and increasingly intense market competition in China have prompted many...
- 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 AMOLED panel capacity expansion forecast, 2016-2020
This Digitimes Research Special Report examines the China AMOLED industry, focusing on the expansion capacity of the makers, the current implementation plans of major smartphone vendors in the market and the technological hurdles faced by the China makers.
- Global AP demand forecast, 2017-2020
Digitimes Research expects global AP shipments to surpass the 1.9 billion mark in 2017, with smartphones remaining the main application. Qualcomm will be leading the market in 2017, as other players continue playing catch up and scramble for funds to invest in more diverse applications.
- Global notebook shipment forecast, 2017 and beyond
This Digitimes Special Report examines key factors in the notebook industry, including products, vendors and ODMs, that will affect total shipments in 2017 and through 2021.