Back in June, companies from all facets of the IT industry converged in Taipei for the Computex IT trade show to display their latest wares and catch up on the latest happenings in the IT industry. Many people associate...

Texas Instruments (TI) has established itself as a leading provider of chips for mobile phones, but as mobile devices see an increasing convergence between communications and entertainment, TI is increasingly positioning...

Rumors of an AMD acquisition of ATI had been swirling for some time. Certainly the rumor mill was at work prior to Computex in June. Reactions to the initial rumors were varied, ranging from financial incredulity, when...

The name Philips has long been associated with consumer electronics, but as the concept of the connected home has developed and begun to take on meaning, Philips Semiconductors has become one of the main suppliers of silicon...

Global Positioning System (GPS) technology now has a wide range of applications in consumer electronics, thanks to major reductions in the size of chipsets and improvements in signal reception, according to Michael Canning,...

Readers of DigiTimes.com will be familiar with the major technical differentiation we now see between the twin poles of the PC processor world, AMD and Intel. AMD has broken free of a front-side bus architecture, integrating...

Alex Gruzen, senior vice president of Dell's Product Group, recently spoke with DigiTimes about the company's relationship with its partners, in response to recent reports of Taiwan-based notebook manufacturers fighting...

As one of the leading hardware distributors in Russia, Pirit has built its business around its relationship with Taiwan. Established in 1990, Pirit has now accumulated over 10 years of experience doing business with Taiwan...

KJ Chou, general manager of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Taiwan, clarified recent negative rumors about AMD's capacity and product performance issues when he was interviewed by DigiTimes. The chip vendor released its 64-bit...

As a pioneer of a new technology, called IPTV (Internet Protocol Television), that delivers digital TV services to subscribers using the IP protocol over a broadband connection, UK-based ANT Software has already obtained...

David Su, the newly appointed CEO of Arima Computer, recently spoke with DigiTimes about the company's outlook, his optimism for a new market presence and an opportunity to correct past mistakes. There is no lack of challenge...

The marriage of Ultra-Wideband and USB remains a tantalizing vision for the communications industry, although perhaps a marriage made in hell as much as in heaven. The IT and communications industries have long regarded...

Innovative Silicon (ISi) is a venture-funded start-up company, founded by chief scientist Serguei Okhonin and chairman and CTO Pierre Fazan, dedicated to the development and licensing of Z-RAM memory technology.

With several success stories under its belt, Oregan Networks expects DLNA certification, Viiv PCs and CEA-2014 ratification to soon bring some level of standardization to the digital home entertainment market. This should...

Recognized by local experts as one of undoubted leaders of the Russian IT market, Merlion earned its reputation as the largest IT distributor in Russia and the company behind the popular iRU brand that was owned by its...

DigiTimes recently named two companies as International News Makers in 2005. One of those companies was Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).

Info-Tek Corporation was founded in 1990 as a contract manufacturer for motherboards and interface cards and is invested by motherboard maker Gigabyte. The company has production centers in Taiwan and China, and is best...

Qualcomm MEMS Technologies (QMT) was formed following Qualcomm's acquisition of Iridigm Display Corporation in September, 2004. With this acquisition, Qualcomm acquired a technology that unites micro-electro-mechanical...

Taiwan-based Merry Electronics, which specializes in speakers and receivers for mobile phones and portable electronics devices, has succeeded in developing a variety of accessories for MP3 mobile phones, such as portable...

Several years ago, US-headquartered Fortemedia was known as an IC supplier providing audio controllers for sound card vendors, including several Taiwan companies. While the company has more recently jumped into a new market...

Today, your digital camera and your mobile phone are probably operated and controlled with the help of a real-time operating system or RTOS. The chances are the RTOS could be from Wind River. As device software systems...

AMD’s drive to 64-bit processors surprised everyone with its speed, even as detractors commented that there would be little or no performance gain on the desktop without a 64-bit OS and 64-bit applications. Whatever...

Beijing Visionox Technology, a China-based company playing a role in the global OLED (organic light-emitting diode) industry, has set up China’s first pilot line for OLED production. Dong-Xu Wang (transliterated from...

Originally codenamed Newcard (introduced under this name in February 2003 at the Intel Developer Forum in San Jose), ExpressCard technology represents the new generation of hot-pluggable I/O expansion cards that the Personal...

Early last month, Philips Polymer Vision, a business unit within Philips Technology Incubator, Royal Philips Electronics, revealed its Concept Readius rollable display at the Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) in Berlin,...