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Friday 23 November 2007
Treating every customer like Intel: Q&A with Tower CEO Russell Ellwanger
Israel-based Tower Semiconductor recently opened a representative office in Taiwan to step up development of the Asia-Pacific market. Digitimes recently talked to Tower CEO Russell...
Thursday 22 November 2007
Talking LCD TVs: Q&A with ViewSonic America president Matt Milne
Although LCD monitor demand remains strong, with global shipments expected to increase 30% this year, annual growth will begin to drop off starting next year, with DisplaySearch forecasting...
Tuesday 20 November 2007
The Eee PC is an extra profit line: Q&A with Jonney Shih and Jonathan Tseng, CEO and president of Asustek
Asustek Computer's recent launch of the low-cost Eee PC has prompted a wide range of opinions across the market. Some say the Eee PC sacrificed too many functions and performance...
Tuesday 20 November 2007
Aiming high: Q&A with Mike Yeh, NXP regional executive for Greater China
More than a year after it was spun off from Philips, NPX has become the second-largest semiconductor player in the Greater China region. Digitimes recently talked to Mike Yeh, NXP's...
Thursday 15 November 2007
No conflict in handset chip market share and profitability: Q&A with STMicroelectronics COO Alain Dutheil
By strengthening ties with number-one handset vendor Nokia in 3G handset chip solutions in...
Thursday 8 November 2007
Differentiation the fundamental profit driver: Q&A with Rambus CEO Harold Hughes
As a leading memory licensing company that focuses on competitive-edge technologies that meet high-performance memory requirements, Rambus stresses the significance of differentiation,...
Tuesday 23 October 2007
Advent of pocket devices means opportunities for everyone: Q&A with Qualcomm UMTS product manager Mohit Bhushan
With feature-phones drawing more consumer attention helped along by high-profile products such as Apple's iPhone and the speculated gPhone from Google, chipmakers for 3G and 3.5G...
Wednesday 17 October 2007
Acquisition of FCI bearing fruit: An interview with Silicon Motion president Wallace Kou
Silicon Motion, which has made its name designing flash controller ICs, lays strong emphasis on its technological strength and service that constantly has landed it opportunities...
Monday 8 October 2007
Brisk IC substrate and PCB sales to resume to normality in 2008: Q&A with Unimicron chairman Tze-Chang Tzeng
Enjoying good order visibility for printed circuit boards (PCBs) through to year-end of 2007, Unimicron Technology, as a leading PCB maker, is also seeing buoyant IC substrate sales...
Thursday 4 October 2007
Stronger analog deployment, stronger foundries ties: Q&A with MIPS marketing VP Jack Browne
Following the announcement of plans to acquire the mixed signal and analog IP specialist Chipidea Microelectronica...
Thursday 4 October 2007
HP performing strongly in global notebook market: Q&A with Dan Forlenza, HP's vice president of business notebook unit
Hewlett-Packard (HP), the world's number one PC vendor, has made substantial gains in the global consumer notebook market and the company is also making headway in the business notebook...
Monday 1 October 2007
ASML reiterates direction on EUV: Q&A with KW Cheng, strategic sales and marketing VP of Asia Pacific
As the third-largest semiconductor equipment supplier after Applied Materials and Tokyo Electron Limited (TEL) and a leading player in the immersion lithography field, ASML has a...
Monday 1 October 2007
Customer is the key for success: Q&A with TI Asia operation president Larry Tan
President of the company's Asia operations since April, Larry Tan of Texas Instruments (TI) believes that a strong relationship with the customer is key for success. Citing a broad...
Friday 14 September 2007
Looking beyond driver IC packaging and testing: Q&A with IST president Gray Huang
For International Semiconductor Technology (IST), a major Taiwan supplier of packaging and testing services for driver ICs, it is time to diversify to other segments. IST president...
Friday 14 September 2007
Living in a material world: Q&A with IC material distributor Wahlee deputy CEO Chun-Yin Chen
Having been in the semiconductor business for several decades, materials supplier Wahlee Industrial provides materials used in engineering plastics, compound materials, printed circuit...