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The technology enabler: Q&A with Qualcomm CDMA Technologies president Steve Mollenkopf
One of the main themes at Computex this year will be mobile computing and how connected consumer electronics devices will be the future of computing. Digitimes...
Staying focused on mobile MEMS: Q&A with Bosch Sensortec marketing director Leopold Beer
Bosch Sensortec has announced what the company claims is the smallest inertial measurement unit (IMU) in the market. The combo solution is designed to meet the...
Shuttle sees great future in educational tablet PC market: Q&A with Yang Zi-yi, vice president of Shuttle education product development center
As iPad is expected to account for close to 60% of the global tablet PC market, while Apple has also launched iBook 2 and iBook Author to compete in the educational...
Focus on high-volume mobile devices: Q&A with Akustica executives
MEMS microphone specialist Akustica has announced its new analog MEMS microphone series to show continuous enhancement of its product portfolio. The firm also...
Gigabyte introduces new servers; range of Android devices and new AIO PCs
Gigabyte Technology's Network & Communications business unit handles a range of product lines including servers, notebooks and all-in-one PCs. The division's...
Peer-to-peer Wi-Fi: Talking Wi-Fi Direct with Broadcom VP Michael Hurlston
Late last year the Wi-Fi Alliance introduced the Wi-Fi Direct peer-to-peer specification that allows Wi-Fi devices to talk to each other without the need for wireless...
Intel steps up its pace: Interview with Navin Shenoy, general manager, Asia-Pacific region for Intel
One major topic at Computex Taipei this year is the rise of mobile computing devices built on the ARM platform. This trend is pitting multiple semiconductor firms...
The new frontier in mobile computing: Q&A with Qualcomm EVP Steve Mollenkopf
Current trends in mobile devices have substantially changed how we think about computing in general, and looking at the market shows that these tectonic shifts...
Gearing up for smartphones: Q&A with Arima president Owen Chen
Via the ODM business model, Arima Communications has established a firm foothold in the worldwide market for feature phones, said company presient Owen Chen in...
The e-book reader market: Q&A with E Ink chairman Scott Liu and Hanvon chairman Liu Yingjian (Part II)
Developing color e-book readers using e-paper has been a challenge for makers. But Hanvon, at this year's FPD International in Japan in November, announced what...
The e-book reader market: Q&A with E Ink chairman Scott Liu and Hanvon chairman Liu Yingjian (Part I)
Developing color e-book readers using e-paper has been a challenge for makers. But Hanvon, at this year's FPD International in Japan in November, announced what...
Acer aims at largest global market share for tablet PCs in 2-3 years, says CEO
Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci, at a press conference for Taiwan-based media in New York, stressed that faced with increasing competition for tablet PCs in the global...
Toward increased mobility: Q&A with ARM president Tudor Brown
More than 20 billion ARM-powered processors have been shipped by semiconductor and system companies worldwide over the past 20 years, and the number is expected...
Intel takes central role in embedded space: Q&A with Michael Chen, managing director, Intel Microelectronics Asia
With the PC market reaching a mature stage, Intel is giving more attention to new market segments to help drive growth. One area the chip giant and its partners...
Distribution in the age of globalization: Q&A with Avnet chairman and CEO Roy Vallee
Despite the high-tech sounding name of electronics components distributor Avnet, the company was, in fact, originally a family run business founded more than 80...
A changing PC usage model: Discussing market opportunities for MeeGo with Novell
On June 1, Novell announced that it will release Suse MeeGo as a fully supported operating system (OS) for netbooks. MeeGo is built on the codestream from the...
Media phones and portable video conferencing: Q&A with UMEC's Kevin Mar
With the economic recovery still on shaky ground and instability rearing its head throughout the world, companies have continued to trim business travel budgets...
Smartbooks celebrate first birthday: Q&A with Qualcomm VP Terry Yen
Last year at Computex Taipei, US-based Qualcomm launched its smartphone platform, built around the company's Snapdragon processor. Qualcomm defined smartbooks...
Aiming to become 'MediaTek' for white-box notebooks: Q&A with Shuttle president David Chen
Aiming to become an equivalent of MediaTek in the white-box notebook market, Shuttle has been working aggressively to set up standards for notebook components...
Business opportunities from smartbooks and e-book readers: Q&A with Inventec Appliances chairman Jackson Chang
Inventec Appliances is an ODM maker rolling out MP3 players, GPS devices, smartphones, VoIP phones, and 3G data cards, and yet it is also the vendor of OKWAP-brand...
A glimpse into Taiwan IPC industry: Q&A with Lanner Electronics
During Computex Taipei 2009, Taiwan IPC maker Lanner Electronics (Nangang Exhibition Hall, L808) launched what it claimed was the world's first Intel Atom-based...
Smartbooks vs netbooks: Q&A with Qualcomm senior VP Luis Pineda
While US-based Qualcomm has been a major player driving growth in the wireless handset market over the past 20 years, the company is now looking to expand its...
Nvidia's 5-year plan coming to fruition as GPU compute goes mainstream, Q&A with Ujesh Desai, vice president of product marketing
Nvidia built its name around satisfying PC gamers' desire for better graphics, higher resolutions, and higher frame rates, from one GPU generation to the next...
GPU will continue to grow for another 15 years: Q&A with Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO of Nvidia
Digitimes recently had a chance to talk to Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO of Nvidia to discuss recent issues surrounding the chip design giant.
