Last update: Thursday 25 April 2013 [200 news items]
Applied Materials wins thin-film court battle with Oerlikon
Apr 2, 16:34
Applied Materials has won a battle against European-based OC Oerlikon Balzers AG in a dispute over IP related to thin-film solar technology. In an oral decision delivered this week,...
Mar 27, 17:10
Nvidia has officially filed a counter suit with the Court of Chancery in the State of Delaware against Intel for breach...
Nvidia files countersuit against Intel
Mar 27, 11:56
Nvidia has announced that it has filed a countersuit in the Court of Chancery in the State of Delaware against Intel for breach of contract. The action also seeks to terminate Intel's...
Tyntek expects little impact from LED patent lawsuit
Newswatch - Mar 19, 16:46
Taiwan-based LED chipmaker Tyntek has disclosed that it has been notified by Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) about a patent infringement lawsuit recently filed in the...
Tessera terminates patent lawsuit against packaging and testing firms
Mar 18, 10:37
Tessera Technologies has withdrawn a patent infringement lawsuit against Taiwan- and Singapore-based IC packaging and testing service providers, with industry soruces saying that...
Taiwan court rejects PPT patent infringement claims against NPC
Newswatch - Mar 17, 10:01
Taiwan's intellectual property court has recently ruled in favor of Nan Ya Printed Circuit Board (NPC), who was accused by Phoenix Precision Technology (PPT) of infringing its patent...
US professor files patent complaint against Taiwan and China LED makers
Newswatch - Mar 12, 17:01
Gertrude Neumark Rothschild, a professor of materials science and engineering at Columbia University in New York, has filed a complaint against several LED makers in Taiwan and China...
Mar 9, 13:51
High Tech Computer (HTC) has no plans to lower its sales projection for the first quarter of this year despite slow sales in February and the alleged patent infringement lawsuit filed...
Court ruling in favor of IP-Com may prevent HTC shipments in Germany
Stockwatch - Mar 6, 15:56
The District Court of Mannheim Germany announced its judgment regarding one of High Tech Computer's (HTC's) patent infringement cases with German company IP-Com on March 5, according...
Nvidia CEO speaks out against Intel lawsuit
Feb 20, 18:47
Intel recently filed a lawsuit with the Court of Chancery in the state of Delaware against Nvidia, asking the court to declare that Nvidia is not licensed to produce chipsets that...
Quanta refutes reports company chairman bribed ex-Taiwan president
Stockwatch - Feb 13, 17:14
Quanta Computer has refuted a report from the Chinese-language United Daily News (UDN) which claims company chairman Barry Lam bribed ex-Taiwan president Chen Shui-bian....
Court denies Isola injunction against TUC
Jan 20, 11:57
Copper clad laminate (CCL) maker Taiwan Union Technology (TUC) has announced that the ROC Intellectual Property Court on January 15 denied Isola USA's application of preliminary injunction...
Amtran counter sues LCD TV maker Funai
Dec 23, 12:44
Taiwan-based LCD TV maker Amtran Technology filed a patent infringement lawsuit at the United States District Court, Western District of Wisconsin against Japan Funai Electric, according...
Foxconn skeptical over BYD's claim over withdrawal of IP lawsuit
Dec 5, 17:15
Foxconn International Holdings (FIH) has not yet been notified by Chinese police concerning claims that they have dropped a criminal probe into allegedly illegal use of its intellectual...
A-Data said to have settled with SanDisk over NAND flash patents
Nov 3, 15:37
Following Afa Technologies' (Afatech's) settlement with SanDisk over its NAND flash-related patent infringement lawsuit, another Taiwan-based flash memory product maker, A-Data Technology,...
IC design house Anpec and Maxim settle lawsuit
Oct 31, 17:01
Maxim Integrated Products has announced that a settlement has been reached in the patent infringement lawsuit that it filed against Taiwan-based IC design house Anpec Electronics...
Taiwan NAND flash makers turn soft over SanDisk lawsuit
Oct 16, 01:20
Of the 25 companies sued by SanDisk over NAND flash-related patent infringement, one first-tier NAND flash controller chip maker Afa Technologies (Afatech) recently announced it has...
Epistar files LED patent infringement lawsuit against Huga
Oct 8, 15:05
Taiwan-based LED chipmaker Epistar has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against competitor Huga Optotech, seeking NT$200 million (US$6.16 million).
TSMC reaches settlement with UniRAM Technology
Stockwatch - Oct 6, 11:43
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has reached a settlement agreement with UniRAM Technology to settle a dispute regarding trade secrets alleged by UniRAM, according...
Foxconn files suit against Molex over implementation of DisplayPort standard
Oct 1, 11:42
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) has filed suit against Molex in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois alleging a range of business torts and...
Isola sues TUC and Iteq for patent infringement
Sep 24, 12:21
PCB material supplier Isola USA last week filed patent infringement complaints against Taiwan Union Technology (TUC) and Iteq with the US Patent and Trademark Office. Industry players...
UMC-Taiwan government lawsuit over Hejian may be settled soon
Jul 18, 15:36
Following the July 17 approval by the Executive Yuan of Taiwan to lift regulations on cross-strait investments, industry players, who mostly expect the Taiwan government to further...
Realtek-3Com lawsuit resolved; licensing agreement settled
Stockwatch - Jul 14, 10:40
Realtek Semiconductor has posted a filing with the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) indicating that its patent infringement lawsuit with US-based 3Com is resolved. Realtek has agreed to...
Vizio not worried by patent lawsuit
Jun 6, 02:05
Vizio, in response to a lawsuit filed by competitors, including Mitsubishi Electric and Samsung Electronics, who accuse it of violating video compression technology patents, has remarked...
Nichia withdraws LED patent lawsuit against AOT
Jun 5, 16:16
Taiwan-based LED maker Advanced Optoelectronic Technology (AOT) has disclosed that Japan-based Nichia has dropped a patent lawsuit against it.
Taiwan must learn antitrust lessons: Q&A with ex-CMO president Ho Jau-yang
The US Justice Department's antitrust cases against the world's major LCD panel makers have resulted in hefty fines for companies and prison terms for executives. Among them were...
- AUO aims at 20% market share for eTP touch panels for notebooks in 2013
- Digitimes Research: US new solar installations may only reach 3.5GW in 2013
- Solar cell prices may increase to US$0.43/W in Taiwan
- Sony Mobile to extend cooperation with ODM firms, says marketing executive
- Senao expanding retail chain in eastern China
- UDE likely to obtain orders from 2 game console vendors
- Lenovo 1Q13 net profit hikes 90% on year
- Phison warns several backend firms of possible patent infringement
- Facebook sets up OCP Taiwan
- Computex 2013: Memory module firms to showcase new SSDs
- Asia to be largest LTE market, says Nokia Siemens Networks greater China head
- ABB to produce PV inverters in South Africa
- TPV Technology suffers 1Q13 net loss of over US$10 million
- Digitimes Research: Seoul Semiconductor may see 2013 revenues up 40.3% on year
- Taiwan April manufacturing production index down, says MOEA
- Polarizer makers under price-cut pressure from clients
- AUO to supply panels for use in 2nd-gen Nexus 7, say sources
- US fab-tool book-to-bill stays above parity, says SEMI
- Intel, MediaTek and Elan taking up 60% of global touchscreen controller market
- HannStar to reach 95% utilization in 2Q13
- Windows 8 expected to take up 5-8% of global tablet shipments in 2013, say Taiwan makers
- Digitimes Research: Global LED tube light shipments to reach 220 million units in 2013
- Nvidia introduces GeForce GTX 780 GPU for gaming
- Quartz component maker TXC expects sales to rise through 4Q13
- Global LCD monitor OEM shipments down 14% on year in 1Q13, says TPV
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- GIGABYTE Launches the BRIX Ultra Compact PC Kit
- AEWIN Introduces Newest Multiplayer Gaming System SGA-5010
- Carry Technology Highlights Thunderbolt and Wi-Fi Card Reader Series
- Imagination says third party IP becoming a key driving force for silicon vendors
- EverFocus launches ECOR960 X1 16CH with better image quality and more affordable price
- 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
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| TAIEX (TSE) | 8209.78 | -28.05 | -0.34% |
| TSE electronic | 310.89 | -0.43 | -0.14% |
| GTSM (OTC) | 118.64 | -0.71 | -0.59% |
| OTC electronic | 143.77 | -0.29 | -0.2% |
- Infineon ships security chips to Taiwan electronic passport program (May 23) - Company release
- Apple 'among largest tax avoiders in US' - Senate committee (May 21) - BBC News
- 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
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2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show: Edison Opto's cafe booth
Photo: Jackie Chang, DIGITIMES, Apr 8.
2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show: Delta LED light bulbs
Photo: Jackie Chang, DIGITIMES, Apr 8.
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2013 Taiwan Internationbal Lighting Show: Epistar applications for agricultural lighting
Photo: Jackie Chang, DIGITIMES, Mar 29.
2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show: Everlight residential LED lighting
Photo: Jackie Chang, DIGITIMES, Mar 29.
2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show: Edison Opto LED strip lamp
Photo: Jackie Chang, DIGITIMES, Mar 29.
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.