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Monday 1 June 2015
High-quality, long-lasting: Q&A with Gigabyte motherboard team
As one of the top vendors in the desktop motherboard industry, Gigabyte Technology has grown its business to reach shipments of around 20 million motherboards per year, most of which...
Wednesday 27 May 2015
LED lighting peak to come in 2018: Q&A with MLS president Lawrence Lin
Global demand for LED lighting will peak in 2018, with LED applications to acount for 70% of all lighting products availabe in the market, according to Lawrence Lin, president for...
Wednesday 6 May 2015
The mbed IoT ecosystem: Q&A with ARM CEO Simon Segars
Through intensified cooperation with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and MediaTek, semiconductor IP provider ARM performed well in 2014, seeing its clients ship...
Wednesday 1 April 2015
Rooftop PV systems are stage for Taiwan solar cell makers: Q&A with Win Win Precision chairman Davis Chen
Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers have been impacted by the US imposing an average 19.5% anti-dumping tariffs rate. But rooftop PV systems, especially those built...
Friday 27 March 2015
Prospects of IC backend service industry remain promising: Q&A with UTAC Holdings CEO William John Nelson
The IC backend service industry was capped by a flurry of merger and acquisition (M&A) activities in the fourth quarter of 2014: China's Zhangjiang Electronics acquired Singapore-based...
Tuesday 24 February 2015
Consolidation needed to address oversupply in NOR flash industry: Q&A with Macronix chairman Miin Wu
Macronix International, which ranks as the world's second-largest NOR flash supplier with a 19% share currently, aims to become the number one player in the sector with a 30% share...
Thursday 12 February 2015
Cloud applications to boost storage demand: Q&A with Seagate senior sales and marketing VP BS Teh
The applications, demand and service areas for the global storage device industry have seen profound changes due to the emergence of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets,...
Monday 26 January 2015
Still aiming at growth in PC market: Q&A with Lenovo Taiwan president Justin Liang
Lenovo, which had the fourth-largest market share next to Asustek Computer, Acer and Apple in the Taiwan notebook market in 2014, aims at a 2-digit market share through focusing on...
Wednesday 21 January 2015
Rising competition from China supply chain: Q&A with Compal president Ray Chen
Compal Electronics was one of the pioneers that relocated its major production base to China from Taiwan in 1990 and has since then transformed itself into an IT conglomerate with...
Tuesday 23 December 2014
NFV solution market to emerge in 2015: Q&A with Aruba CEO Dominic Orr
The development of network functions virtualization (NFV) solutions will become mature in 2015 and will result in tremendous business opportunities, Dominic Orr, CEO of Aruba Networks,...
Thursday 18 December 2014
14nm process to bring healthy competition among foundries: Q&A with Globalfoundries senior VP Chuck Fox
The move by Globalfoundries to acquire IBM's semiconductor business unit and to team up with Samsung Electronics to aggressively step into the 14nm process market indicates the US-based...
Wednesday 10 December 2014
Wearable devices to be killer products for wireless charging: Q&A with Luke Lee of Texas Instruments Taiwan
The global wireless charging market is set for an explosive growth in 2015 as wireless charging applications have begun to be to implemented in public facilities in the US and the...
Monday 8 December 2014
Seizing IoT opportunities, CEVA acquires RivieraWaves
The number of IoT (Internet of Things) devices worldwide is estimated to rapidly grow from 900 million in 2009 to 26 billion in 2020, an increase by more than 30 times, driven by...
Wednesday 3 December 2014
SSD products for sustainable growth: Q&A with Phison chairman Khein-Seng Pua
NAND flash chip controller maker Phison Electronics has seen its sales grow robustly in 2014. And under the leadership of its chairman Khein-Seng Pua, the company has initiated a...
Wednesday 26 November 2014
LED lighting marks a new era: Q&A with Hubie Notohamiprodjo, SSL products marketing director, Dialog Semiconductor
With the global LED lighting application market taking off, and business opportunities emerging fast, semiconductor firms, particularly LED driver IC vendors, around the globe have...