As a leading memory licensing company that focuses on competitive-edge technologies that meet high-performance memory requirements, Rambus stresses the significance of differentiation, while delivering an optimistic outlook...

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 to work with international companies. Through...

Having been in the semiconductor business for several decades, materials supplier Wahlee Industrial provides materials used in engineering plastics, compound materials, printed circuit boards (PCBs), semiconductors and...

Despite its relatively late presence in the NAND flash sector, Kingston Technology, which is well known for its DRAM module business, sees its late presence as giving the company a clearer direction to pursue – that...

Apacer has placed SSD applications in the spotlight at its booth (D126, D136, D225, D235, Hall 1) at Computex Taipei 2007. While most major memory applications makers are featuring SSD solutions at the show, having a "true"...

Although memory cards have become a must for consumer electronics (CE) gadgets, various standards continue to be pushed in the market, creating some confusion among users. However, with size being a critical issue for consumers,...

Memory module maker Transcend Information is already seeing a five-fold sales increase for its NAND flash cards and USB drives this year, and the company is confident it will sustain strong sales through the rest of the...

STMicroelectronics and Intel finally answered to market speculations by announcing the establishment of a new flash memory company. Digitimes had an opportunity...

SanDisk not only serves as the world's largest vendor of flash-based memory cards, but also plays the role as a wafer maker, enabling the company to streamline all processes from upstream NAND flash chip manufacturing,...

Known as the company behind the Intel-supported RDRAM memory technology that was expected to become the standard in desktop PCs in late 1990s, Rambus ended up losing out to the open DDR specification proposed by the JEDEC...

Although the issue of excessive inventory is casting a shadow over the global semiconductor industry, players in the memory sector continue increasing their capital expenditure (capex). For Micron Technology, the world's...

Created less than four years ago as a joint venture between the Germany-based Infineon Technologies and Taiwan-based Nanya Technology, Inotera Memories is now seen as an example of the achievements of Taiwan's semiconductor...

When STMicroelectronics appointed Bob Krysiak as corporate vice president and general manager to head its newly established Greater China operations in October 2005, it stressed that the creation of the new unit was a vital...

As the semiconductor industry moves further into deep submicron and begins to implement new design techniques and materials such as high-K dielectrics, new deposition techniques are required. Currently, the industry buzz...

Although serving almost all the major Taiwan memory-module houses as a PCB supplier, Brain Power remains relatively unknown around the globe. One of its successful PCBs, the B6U808, is often discussed within user forums,...

With renewed growth in the IP-core markets, companies such as ARC and Tensilica, specialists in configurable cores, are competing with a number of well known names in “fixed” or industry standard architecture...

Despite the attractions of the fabless-plus-foundry model, any foundry hoping to compete in an industry dominated by the likes of UMC and TSMC will need to think carefully about its strategy. In the case of Silterra, whose...

Even though the memory business is highly volatile, Taiwan-based memory device maker Transcend Information has been able to maintain gross margins of over 15% on average throughout the years. Company chairman Peter Su talked...

Lattice Semiconductor International is up against such well known names in field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) as Xilinx, Altera and Actel, but the company launched several new products in 2004 that define it as not...

Known as one of the leading DRAM suppliers (ranked by iSuppli as sixth in the world for the first half of 2005), Nanya Technology operates its own silicon fabs, but ships its products mainly as DRAM modules assembled by...

Analog Devices’ Blackfin processor is an unusual design that combines control processing and digital signal processing on the same chip. Jointly developed with Intel, the Blackfin is now being designed into a wide...

Far ahead of the competition, US-based Kingston Technology led the DRAM-module industry in 2004 with a 27% market share, according to iSuppli, while its two closest competitors, US-based Smart Modular Technologies and Taiwan-based...

Founded in 1987, US-based Kingston Technology, the world’s largest third-party DRAM module supplier, used to focus its business on the Europe and US markets. However, John Tu, co-founder and president of Kingston,...

In terms of both the installed and the developer base, Java is now the leading software enabler for virtual execution environments, and that means ARM is involved in the enhancement and development of the Java platform...