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...

The TFT LCD panel industry is continuing to intensify as market demand is increasing, bringing competition between Korea-, Japan-, Taiwan- and China-based panel makers to unprecedented levels. As produciton capacity becomes...

As the PC Industry is having trouble achieving growth, transformation has become a new trend among the industry players, Wistron chairman Simon Lin has told Digitimes in a recent interview. Dell's privatization is just...

Despite lagging growth in the global economy, smartphone and tablet applications that use one-glass-solution (OGS) touch screen technology are becoming increasingly popular in the market and demand for the technology at...

The Taiwan-based solar supply chain is likely to enter a period of consolidation. For upstream material providers, consolidation between downstream customers may create pressure on their costs. Digitimes recently sat down...

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...

Despite the fact the penetration rate of LED backlight units (BLUs) in TVs has been increasing continuously, shining a light on the LED industry, Biing-jye Lee, chairman of Taiwan-based LED chipmaker Epistar, believes market...

Touch panel maker TPK Holding managed to ramp up its revenues 7-fold to NT$143.37 billion (US$4.86 billion) in 2011 from NT$18.71 billion in 2009. The touch panel vendor also posted an EPS of NT$48.22 in 2011, while a number...

Demand for NAND flash application to eMMC, SSDs and USB 3.0 devices is expected to take off in 2012, according to chairman Khein Seng Pua for IC design house Phison Electronics at an interview with Digitimes.

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...

As a LED subsidiary of AU Optronics (AUO), Lextar has been viewed as a LED backlight module maker. Recently Lextar has set goals to enter the LED lighting market. David Su, chairman of Lextar explains the current condition...

Yuan-Huai Simon Tsuo, chairman of Motech has been viewed as an important figure in the development of the solar industry in Taiwan. Tsuo commented on the gloomy market in the first half of 2011 and the future of the solar...

A booming time has come for the LED lighting industry, and its players are optimistic. Jason Wu, chairman of Taiwan-based LED components firm Edison Opto (Edison), talked about the company's business strategy and the future...

Developing color e-book readers using e-paper has been a challenge for makers. But Hanvon, at this year's FPD International in Japan in November, announced what is considered to be the world's first commercialized e-book...

Developing color e-book readers using e-paper has been a challenge for makers. But Hanvon, at this year's FPD International in Japan in November, announced what is considered to be the world's first commercialized e-book...

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...

Beginning in 2009, the LED industry saw aggressive capacity expansion and a series of strategic alliances, and Taiwan-based LED chipmaker Epistar has been one of the most active. Since 2009, it has invested in fellow LED...

Hit by poor market conditions in 2008, A-Data Technology saw its first annual loss since it was founded in 2001. However, the memory module house made a turnaround in 2009, and saw profits for the year reach an all-time...

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...

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...

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...