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Macronix ramps up efforts to gain market share in embedded non-volatile memory
Prices of memory chips, including dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) and all types of flash memory, have rallied throughout 2017, buoying the business value of...
Digital transformation enabling smart manufacturing innovation
Digital transformation in manufacturing is one of the key topics for the upgrading and transformation of Taiwan industries. It also shows new types of business...
NVIDIA to assist Taiwan server ODMs to develop GPU-powered datacenter products
Artificial intelligence (AI) has grown to become more mature due to aggressive development by related players over the past few years and is now able to support...
Artificial intelligence providing superhuman growth for NVIDIA
In 2012 Google set off a big bang in the artificial intelligence (AI) community and brought deep learning into the eye of the public when it announced that Andrew...
Toshiba showcasing SSD solutions with OCZ brand in Computex 2016
OCZ, an SSD brand offered by Toshiba for the consumer market, has been further strengthened presence in high performance solid-state storage drives (SSDs) market...
How G.SKILL memory leads DRAM overclocking and the fearless pursuit for performance: Interview with G.SKILL CEO Johnson Huang
Walking into Computex 2014 at Nangang Exhibition Hall 1F, a constant crowd of attendees surround an eye-catching stage, featuring a massive leader board and a...
Solid state storage for the enterprise and consumers: Q&A with Alex Mei, CMO at OCZ Storage Solutions
As part of Toshiba, OCZ Storage Solutions is able to leverage Toshiba's NAND and combine it with its proprietary controllers, firmware and software. Toshiba's...
Explaining the Chaiwan model for the mobile device supply chain: Q&A with Digitimes Research director Joanne Chien
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...
Make good products and growth will come naturally: Q&A with Gigabyte notebook team
Despite being one of the market leaders in the motherboard and graphics card industries, Gigabyte Technology is relatively unknown as a notebook player. Digitimes...
Digital power supply: Q&A with Compuware executive
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...
Eyeing the gaming market: Q&A with ECS executive Sam Yeh
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...
Interview with AZZURRO Semiconductors CEO Erwin Wolf: Mass production of 200mm GaN-on-Si wafer will drive significant shift of LED market
With excellent cost advantages, GaN-on-Si technology has become a new focus in the LED market in order to cope with the severe price pressure for LED makers. In...
NTI software plays a key role in creating product differentiation: An interview with Bill Yao, President/CEO of NTI
Since the firm's founding in 1995, NTI has remained strong, growing steadily despite a few industry cycles of ups and downs. The firm currently has a solid position...
The greening of Taiwan: Q&A with Siemens Taiwan CEO Peter Weiss
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...
The PV inverter boom: Q&A with Digitimes Research analyst Sophia Chen
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...
The LED upstream boom: Q&A with Digitimes Research analyst Jessie Lin
With LED chipmakers aggressively increasing capacity to meet fast growing demand from the LCD displays and general lighting markets, suppliers in the upstream...
Emerging markets to drive China foundries' growth: Q&A with Digitimes Research analyst Nobunaga Chai
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...
China aiming at balanced development: Q&A with Digitimes Research analyst Joanne Chien
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...
Touch panel market to have CAGR of 18.3% from 2009-2013: Q&A with Digitimes Research analyst Jason Yang
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,...
China may see LCD panel oversupply in 2H12: Q&A with Digitimes Research senior analyst Tony Huang
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...
NTT docomo recaptures Japanese mobile market with support of Taiwanese IT vendors and a flexible Wi-Fi strategy, says NTTBP president Tadao Kobayashi
Mobile communications technology is a constantly evolving field. Rather than always trying to keep up with the latest developments, sometimes taking a different...
China 3G market growing fast: Q&A with Digitimes Research analyst Roger Huang
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...
Will Shuttle stay high-end or look to go mainstream: An interview with Jonathan Yi
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...
The XPC factor: An interview with Ken Huang, the man behind the Shuttle XPC
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...
