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Returning with stronger competitiveness: Q&A with Lu Li-Cheng, Chaintech chairman
Friday 26 April 2013
Chaintech, a motherboard/graphics card maker, which quit the market once and returned recently, has formed a new operating team and cooperated with a new partner, aiming to gain victory in the second-tier motherboard/graphics...

MEMS-enabled energy harvesting: Q&A with MIG executive director Karen Lightman
Tuesday 23 April 2013
Digitimes recently spoke with Karen Lightman, the executive director of MEMS Industry Group (MIG), about the use of MEMS for energy-saving applications. Lightman pointed out opportunities for energy harvesters – devices...

Coping with the shrinking ODD business: Q&A with Lite-On IT CEO Danny Liao
Monday 22 October 2012
As the proportion of notebooks equipped with slim-type optical disc drives (ODDs) is on the decline and use of cloud computing-based storage is on the rise, the optical disc storage market has reached saturation. Faced...

Focus is keyword for corporate restructuring: Q&A with LSI CEO Abhi Talwalkar
Friday 29 June 2012
Abhi Talwalkar has been steering LSI since 2005, initiating a series of restructuring programs from inside out, repositioning the company's product development strategy and finally transforming LSI into one of the most...

Solid state storage for the enterprise and consumers: Q&A with Alex Mei, CMO at OCZ Technology
Thursday 7 June 2012
Solid state storage is one of the fastest growing segments in the IT industry, with SSD shipments alone forecast to see a CAGR of 63%, to reach over 201 million units in 2016, according to IHS iSuppli. Whether it is increased...

Mobos are all about differentiation: Q&A with ECS
Thursday 7 June 2012
Elitegroup Computer System (ECS) used to focus on the entry-level and mid-range segments of the motherboard market, but over past two years it has also established a place in the high-end segment.

Carrying value: Q&A with Carry Technology president Taron Chang
Thursday 7 June 2012
Carry Technology, which develops and manufactures card readers as well as other storage products, has launched its Apotop brand for storage solutions and peripherals. The new brand is to demonstrate Carry's aim of being...

Trend in mobile computing: Q&A with Intel's Gregory Bryant
Wednesday 6 June 2012
Leading up to Computex, Digitimes touched base with Intel's Gregory Bryant, VP of sales and marketing group and general manager of Intel Asia-Pacific Region, to find out more about mobile computer industry developments...

Expanding the motherboard market: Q&A with Gigabyte sales and marketing
Tuesday 5 June 2012
Following the recent launch of Intel's new Ivy Bridge platform, new announcements from AMD, and the growing anticipation for Windows 8, Computex 2012 will provide PC players from every segment an opportunity to showcase...

Adata looks to move to high-end of memory and storage market
Tuesday 5 June 2012
Specializing in memory and storage solutions, Adata Technology has moved to pay more attention to repositioning its brand recognition. Creating synergy among company branches in different regions is part of Adata's re-branding...
AVerMedia: Video remains the key trend
Tuesday 7 June 2011
With Computex just around the corner, Digitimes decided to pay a visit to Taiwan-based video specialist AVerMedia to see what the company has planned for this year's show. President Allan Yang was on hand to tell us his...
Gigabyte introduces new servers; range of Android devices and new AIO PCs
Friday 3 June 2011
Gigabyte Technology's Network & Communications business unit handles a range of product lines including servers, notebooks and all-in-one PCs. The division's goal is to leverage the manufacturing and R&D expertise...

Positioning itself as a memory one-stop memory and storage shop: Q&A with Adata senior VP YJ Choi
Thursday 2 June 2011
In early 2010, Adata Technoloy launched a new corporate identity and branding strategy with an aim to further expand the company's presence and brand awareness in the international market place. The company also stepped...

Expanding SSD market reach: Q&A with OCZ executive VP and CMO Alex Mei
Wednesday 1 June 2011
Once known as a supplier of premium DRAM modules, OCZ Technology has recognized its fiscal 2011 a transformational year for the company. In the year ended February 28, 2011, OCZ shifted its corporate focus away from the...

Tuesday 31 May 2011
Gigabyte Technology is one of a few Taiwan-based companies that has continued to build success in the desktop PC motherboard segment, in particular the so-called DIY market which is characterized by consumers who are dedicated...

Intel steps up its pace: Interview with Navin Shenoy, general manager, Asia-Pacific region for Intel
Tuesday 31 May 2011
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 against computing industry giant Intel, which recently responded...

AMD to continue focus on traditional PC market: Q&A with AMD CEO Dirk Meyer
Wednesday 1 December 2010
AMD has recently been seeing progress in its development of accelerated processing units (APU), while achieving success in discrete GPU market share, during Computex 2010 in June Digitimes took the opportunity to talk to...

Distribution in the age of globalization: Q&A with Avnet chairman and CEO Roy Vallee
Monday 16 August 2010
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 years ago by Charles Avnet. With its stock being traded for...

Prospects of hybrid HDDs in notebook market: Q&A with Seagate's Teh Ban-seng
Monday 21 June 2010
Seagate Technology on May 24, 2010 unveiled Momentus XT drive, a hybrid hard disk drive (HDD) series that combines 7,200rpm hard disk platters and a 4GB SSD (solid-state drive) made of SLC (single-level cell) NAND flash...
Media phones and portable video conferencing: Q&A with UMEC's Kevin Mar
Thursday 3 June 2010
With the economic recovery still on shaky ground and instability rearing its head throughout the world, companies have continued to trim business travel budgets. To stay connected, businesses are relying more than ever...

The next billion users: Q&A with Intel's Stanley Huang
Wednesday 2 June 2010
Intel has always taken center stage at Computex Taipei, and this year Digitimes has the great pleasure to sit down with Stanley Huang, managing director of Advanced Technical Sales and Services, Intel APAC. Huang is one...

Objective Analysis: PCIe and standard interface SSDs should coexist for a very long time
Wednesday 5 May 2010
Jim Handy joined semiconductor market researchers at Objective Analysis after more than 30 years in the electronics industry that included 14 years as an industry analyst for Dataquest (now Gartner) and Semico Research,...

Tuesday 27 April 2010
With numerous negative rumors surrounding the discrete graphics card market regarding Nvidia's new GeForce 480/470 (Fermi) graphics chip, and facing competition from AMD, Digitimes recently had chance to talk to Drew Henry,...

Wednesday 14 October 2009
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 handsets. In addition, the company has recently unveiled...

A glimpse into Taiwan IPC industry: Q&A with Lanner Electronics
Thursday 4 June 2009
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 fanless embedded computer with discrete graphics for digital...
- China market: Several smartphone components in short supply
- AUO supply of iPad mini panels in 2Q13 expected to slip sequentially
- Demand for small-size panel driver ICs stays strong
- Innolux, AUO differ in strategies for tapping China smartphone panel market
- Asustek unveils Intel 8 series motherboards
- Wintek to reportedly set up joint venture 6G touch panel factory in China with Nanjing Panda Electronics
- PCB firm Apex 2Q13 sales to rise over 10%
- Taiwan LED firms to attend Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition 2013
- Touch screen notebook shipments reach 4.57 million units in 1Q13, says Displaybank
- Asia Pacific leads worldwide mobile phone sales growth in 1Q13, says Gartner
- Mobile DRAM revenues slip 5% in 1Q13, says DRAMeXchange
- SMA Technology sees 1Q13 revenues fall on year
- SunPower announces fiscal 2013 financial guidance
- LED plant factory market to reach US$1.2 billion in 2013, says PIDA
- Suntech agrees on new forbearance agreement with converible note holders
- BlackBerry to offer BBM on Android and iOS platforms
- New generation iPhone may adopt sapphire crystal glass for home button
- Ledlink to begin LED lighting shell volume production in May-June
- Ruggedized PC vendors eyeing 7- to 8-inch tablet market
- Equipment maker Acter sees profits down in 1Q13
- Soft-World sees over 50% of 1Q13 profit from 3 subsidiaries
- Corning introduces Lotus XT Glass
- Synnex Technology reports profits for 1Q13
- HannStar Display posts 1Q13 profits
- Taiwan market: HTC, Samsung optimistic about May sales
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- Weak eurozone growth hits euro (May 15) - The Financial Times
- German factory orders rise for second month (May 7) - Bloomberg
- Eurozone retail sales fall for second consecutive month (May 6) - BBC News
- China economy to stay commodity-oriented, says JPMorgan (April 16) - Bloomberg
- S Korea in US$15.3 billion stimulus bid to spur economic growth (April 16) - BBC News
- Gold hit by sharpest tumble in 30 years (April 16) - CNN
- FBI probes Boston 'terror' blasts (April 16) - BBC News
- China GDP growth slows to 7.7% (April 14) - Wall Street Journal
- Digitimes Research: Rising mobile device demand drives TSMC, UMC wafer shipment growth in 2Q13
- Digitimes Research: Battery technologies regain focus as energy storage demand rises
- Digitimes Research: LED light bulb prices in Japan fall in April
- Digitimes Research: Sapphire 2-inch substrate prices to be around US$8/unit in 2013
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- Digital Network Fuels Opportunities in Vehicle Surveillance Market
- Advantech Redefines Entry Level Network Application Platforms
- WD shipping world's first 5 mm 2.5-inch hard drive
- Embracing the New Generation Intel Atom Family with DDR3 Memory Support
- Got The Message? Ensuring efficient and reliable delivery of content across a mission critical digital signage network
- Emb' Store On-Demand Software Service for Embedded Computing
- Efficient Network Management for Digital Signage
- Design Benefits of the MI/O Extension Solution
- ATO Solution Co., Ltd. to launch 1Gb SLC NAND Flash after 256Mb/512Mb mass production for the first time in Fab-less industry
- Chilisin's miniature power inductor in 0603/0805 sizes
- Chilisin introduces Thin-film chip inductor 0201 size
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Opportunity lies for MEMS energy harvesting: Q&A with Holst Centre general manager Bert Gyselinckx
Digitimes recently interviewed Bert Gyselinckx, general manager of the Holst Centre in Eindhoven, to...

Returning with stronger competitiveness: Q&A with Lu Li-Cheng, Chaintech chairman
Chaintech, a motherboard/graphics card maker, which quit the market once and returned recently, has...

MEMS-enabled energy harvesting: Q&A with MIG executive director Karen Lightman
Digitimes recently spoke with Karen Lightman, the executive director of MEMS Industry Group (MIG),...

Complete mobile platform solutions: Q&A with Broadcom executive VP Robert Rango
In a relentless competition against rivals including Qualcomm, Nvidia and Media in the smartphone chipset...
- Smartphone and tablet industry: The view from Taiwan - May 2012
Taiwan-based companies have a long and successful history of involvement in the supply chain for mobile devices, which for the purposes of this article consist...
- Taiwan motherboard industry overview - May 2012
The year 2011 saw the motherboard industry reverse its trend of declining shipments year-on-year, to post a slight 0.2% growth. This upturn in fortunes was expected...
- Notebook market overview - Jun 2011
The notebook industry in 2010 experienced several major events that significantly changed the industry's ecosystem for the year and the industry is also believed...
- LCD TV overview - Jun 2011
Growth of the global LCD TV market was not as strong as expected in 2010 as the market continued to feel the aftershocks of the economic recession that had hit...
- 2H 2012 global TFT panel market forecast
Digitimes Research predicts there will be a total of 389 million large-sized TFT LCD panels shipped in 2H12, with 195 million in the third quarter and 194 million in the fourth quarter - with the total representing a 7.6% increase over the first half of this year.
- Trends and shipment forecast for 2H 2012 smartphone market
Smartphone shipments in 2010 and 2011 both enjoyed growth of more than 60%. Growth will decelerate in 2012 due to the high base, as well as a slowdown in consumer spending in Western Europe.
- Trends in Asia LED chip manufacturing industry
Asia is playing an ever more important role in upstream LED chip manufacturing. The region accounted for 80% of MOCVD demand in 2011 and will account for 90% in 2012, largely because Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and China are the major global centers for LED chip production.
















