DIGITIMES regularly interviews leading industry executives, inviting them to talk frankly about the technology issues and the business challenges that need to be addressed in an industry that is marked by constant change. We always welcome the opportunity to discuss industry trends and issues face-to-face, via email or during a conference call, especially for companies that are targeting the Greater China market.
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Why countries like India should join ITA-3: Q&A with Stephen Ezell, ITIF VP of Global Innovation Policy
The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) issued a report in September titled "How an Information Technology Agreement 3.0 would bolster global...
Nvidia in metaverse world
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at the recently-held virtual GTC talked about a range of topics and technology development trends, including those associated with the...
How PCB makers can succeed in Southeast Asia, according to Apex CEO Chou Jui-Hsiang
It has been nearly three years since the US-China trade war pushed the electronics supply chain toward Southeast Asia. In addition to the movement of large assembly...
Panel semiconductor: Q&A with PanelSemi CEO Ting Chin-Lung
Chinese panel makers have become the world's largest LCD makers after over a decade of fierce market competition, while South Korean panel makers have chosen to...
DDI packaging and testing to continue to grow in 2022: Q&A with Chipbond CEO Wu Fei-Jain
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic, the global electronics supply chain has been bogged down by the effects of the "broken chain," uneven component supply,...
Monolithic/heterogeneous integration to drive Silicon 4.0: Q&A with Etron chairman Nicky Lu
While global chip shortages can hardly ease in the short term and prices continue to rise further, regional semiconductor fleets are quietly taking shape as the...
Wire-bonding to be increasingly needed to process car-use IGBT, SiC modules, says K&S VP
As the relatively mature wire-bonding technology continues to advance, it has become fully suitable for processing automotive silicon-based IGBT modules, and SiC...
The mmWave opportunity: Q&A with MixComm CEO Mike Noonen
Mike Noonen has witnessed the vicissitudes of the semiconductor industry over the past 20 years. With a vision to lower the threshold of innovation for semiconductor...
Laser-as-a-service: Q&A with InPhocal CTO and co-founder Martijn Boerkamp
Selected as one of the 46 must-see startups by the Garage+ program of Epoch Foundation at the Computex Taipei 2021 Virtual Exhibition, Netherlands-based InPhocal...
The ability to innovate: Q&A with RISC-V International CTO Mark Himelstein and Andes Technology CEO Frankwell Lin
RISC-V is seeing strong growth as an open-source platform for innovations across many different industries. The RISC-V architecture is also enjoying increased...
US-Taiwan partnerships: Q&A with Arati Shroff, deputy chief of Economic Section at AIT
Bloomberg has warned that the world is "dangerously dependent" on supply of semiconductors from Taiwan - an assertion echoed by attempts that many governments...
Small sensors, big goals: Q&A with ForceN CEO Robert Brooks and VP of engineering Albert Chen
The advent of Internet of Things (IoT) and Industry 4.0 has increased the demands for robots and edge computing, and the tasks are becoming more and more complex...
Singapore can be springboard into ASEAN, says Singaporean trade representative in Taipei
Singapore is well-known for its services and finance sectors, but there is much more to the economy of the Southeast Asian country, which is keen on expanding...
Virtual Antenna: Q&A with Ignion VP of innovation Carles Puente
Fractus Antennas, formed by engineers who invented the technology allowing smartphone antennas to automatically switch between different bandwidth networks and...
Notebook chip overbooking concerns: Q&A with Edom chairman Wayne Tseng
Pandemic-driven demand for notebooks supporting remote work and study has brought explosive growths in orders for CPUs, power management ICs (PMIC), display driver...
Epi-wafer key to compound semiconductor: Q&A with VPEC chairman Jian-Lian Chen
Compound semiconductor catches global market attention with rapidly advancing 5G and Wi-Fi communication technologies and rising IoT trends. Following first-generation...
Contract PCB drilling service: Q&A with Key Ware CEO Chen Po-ying
Taiwan suppliers of high-end IC substrates, HDI boards, rigid PCBs with high layer counts and flexible PCBs are expected to have another busy year in 2021 after...
WPG to build last mile in semiconductor supply chain at Taoyuan Aerotropolis
Taiwan is the leader in many semiconductor sectors, but the "last mile" in terms of logistics and shipping centers is missing in the country - a gap that WPG Holdings...
Smart logistics vision for next 30 years: Q&A with WPG Holdings vice chairman Frank Yeh
COVID-19 and the US-China trade war have combined to accelerate a split of the global supply chain in two - namely a "G2" pattern with one serving China and the...
Semiconductor knows no borders: Q&A with Silicon Catalyst partners
While many might be deterred by the hefty costs of starting a semiconductor company, there are still many other entrepreneurs with a silicon dream knocking on...
Partnerships towards global leaderships: Q&A with Ashwin Pershad, Tech Mahindra country head in Taiwan
Taiwanese companies planning to invest in India might have second thoughts in the wake of a riot at Wistron's plant in Narasapura stemming from salary disputes...
Transformation in next 30 years: Q&A with WPG Holdings CEO Frank Yeh
Frank Yeh, CEO of WPG Holdings, is optimistic about the overall IC industry, which he expects will be driven by demand for Chromebooks, 5G handsets and others...
All-round OSAT: Q&A with PTI CEO Boris Hsieh
Taiwan-based Powertech Technology (PTI) is one of the world's top OSATs with major backend orders from non-Korean memory vendors. PTI has just completed a top...
'IT' partnerships: Q&A with Manik Mumar from ELCINA
India is a huge country, in terms of both its size and its potential as a production base rivaling that of China's. The South Asian country, in its bid to build...
