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...

Germany-based Siemens introduced an environmental portfolio in 2011 to help reduce gas emissions by 317 million tons. According to Peter Loscher, president and CEO of Siemens, climate change has been affecting people's...

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...

The US government announced the final verdict of the anti-dumpig and anti-subsidy investigation against China-based solar firms on October 10, 2012. At PV Taiwan 2012, Digitimes had the chance to sit down with Murray Cameron,...

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...

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...

The ramping-up of 8.5G production at China-based BOE Technology and China Star Optoelectronics Technology (CSOT) in the second half of 2011 has brought more uncertainties to the development of the world's LCD panel industry...

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...

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...

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 market, Acer takes a fearless attitude and will avail itself...

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,...

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,...

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...

Many companies went bankrupt in the financial storm, and the remaining companies also learned the lesson the hard way. In the aftermath of the financial woes, many enterprises are looking forward to recovery, but questions...

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...

Although the global semiconductor industry will continue to decline this year, Altera is confident of its performance in 2009. The company will maintain strong relationships with foundries for development of next-generation...

STMicroelectronics has made four major acquisitions since 2007 – Genesis Microchip, Nokia's 3G and 3.5G R&D team, NXP Semiconductors and Ericsson Mobile Platform (EMP). Digitimes recently had an opportunity to...