Jason LS Chen is a vice president in the Sales and Marketing Group at Intel and is responsible for all sales and marketing activities for Intel in Taiwan. As country manager, he supports original equipment manufacturers...

Rohm Semiconductor is looking to go beyond traditional practices and strategies while insisting on its original purpose "quality first" to provide best products and services, company president and CEO Satoshi...

The global EDA (electronic design automation) market has been growing at a rapid pace since the 2008 financial crisis, sustaining a growth rate higher than the industry's average during the past three years. Digitimes held...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has received Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certifications for its green buidlings. Digitimes recently sat down with Arthur Chuang, director of TSMC's...

MEMS (microelectromechanical system) applications are finding their way into a broader range of devices, with the market expected to grow fast over the next several years, according to James Quinn, VP of Global Sales &...

Digitimes recently had the opportunity to talk with Simon Segars, executive VP and GM of ARM's physical IP division, about market trends and development, and how ARM responds to changing industry dynamics.

According to analog and mixed-signal semiconductor maker Maxim Integrated Products, the industrial segment has been the fastest growing analog semiconductor segment over the past few years and looking to the future, will...

Over the next 30 years, the world's middle class (defined as per capita income of more than US$8,000 a year) will grow to include four billion people, meaning that 170 people are joining the middle class every minute. In...

Silicon Valley startup Algotochip specializes in architecting and implementing all aspects of a complete digital solution directly from the C-based algorithm of its customers, and the company is making bold claims that...

MEMS microphone specialist Akustica has announced its new analog MEMS microphone series to show continuous enhancement of its product portfolio. The firm also recognizes this product development as an achievement since...

In a recent telephone interview, Ed Brachocki, director of marketing at Kionix, updated several developments of the company's operations - its mature accelerometer business and MEMS gyroscope product line that was launched...

Despite uncertainties in the semiconductor industry outlook, packaging and testing firm STATS ChipPAC will continue investing in advanced IC packages for space-critical designs that require components with a certain level...

According to a recently published Digitimes Research Special Report, China's semiconductor...

Founded in 2003 by semiconductor veterans from Silicon Valley and Japan, Alchip provides silicon design and manufacturing services for companies developing complex and high-volume system-on-chip (SoC) designs. Digitimes...

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...

With LED chipmakers aggressively increasing capacity to meet fast growing demand from the LCD displays and general lighting markets, suppliers in the upstream are optimistic on outlook for 2011. The following is an interview...

China's foundries may not be able to compete head-to-head against the industry's global top-three players in the most advanced process technologies, but their opportunities lie elsewhere - their own country and other emerging...

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 to top 100 billion in the next decade, according to ARM president,...

Speculation has circulated in Taiwan that Texas Instruments' (TI) 12-inch wafer foundry plant, which is about to enter volume production for analog chips, will allow the chip vendor to more effectively leverage its aggressive...

MEMS accelerometer specialist Kionix, just one year after its acquisition by Rohm, recently unveiled its new gyroscope product line targeted at the consumer electronics market. During a recent interview with Digitimes,...

Socle Technology, formerly a IC design service subsidiary of Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, now works closely with Globalfoundries and looks to become the bridge between the new foundry partner and fabless design...

Headquartered in Germany, BASF is the world's largest chemical company, operating all over the world and covering a vast number of different industries, including the semiconductor, flat panel and solar industries.

Gold bumping service provider, Chipbond Technology, which also offers COF/COG (chip-on-film/chip-on glass) turnkey services, has identified outsourcing of LCD driver-IC bumping and packaging for 12-inch wafers from Japan-based...

ACM Research has developed a 300mm single-wafer megasonic cleaning tool, which has been adopted by several leading foundry houses, according to company founder and CEO David Wang. Its megasonic technology, dubbed space-alternated...

Globalfoundries, the spin-off of AMD's former manufacturing operations, is working to build its customer base in Taiwan and Japan, according to company CEO Doug Grose. Grose, who visited Taiwan on March 24, said in an interview...