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Wednesday 30 January 2013
Using digital to control power: Q&A with iWatt
When it comes to digital power, iWatt claims that it is the inventor of digital power control for AC/DC. The company notes that its technology allows its customers to eliminate BOM...
Thursday 24 January 2013
Putting solar on anything that can be moved, carried or worn: Q&A with Alta Devices
GaAs solar material maker Alta Devices boasts solar cells with an efficiency of 28.8%, but perhaps even more astonishing is the fact it can produce GaAs cells that are only 1-micron...
Tuesday 22 January 2013
The next 50 years: Q&A with Rohm CEO Satoshi Sawamura
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,...
Monday 21 January 2013
Living on the IP edge: Q&A with Vitesse CTO Martin Nuss
Vitesse Semiconductor has been a major player in the semiconductor industry for the past 28 years, from its role in the telecom area in the heyday of SONET/SDH to becoming involved...
Wednesday 9 January 2013
Consolidation may benefit solar industry: Q&A with Chi-jen Chen, chairman of Giga Solar and Gigastorage
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...
Thursday 3 January 2013
Huawei to push into enterprise market: Q&A with Jawee Sun, IT product line marketing director of Huawei enterprise BG
China-based Huawei Technologies has always been known for its telecom technologies and equipment, but seeing the rise of cloud computing, the company has also become aggressive about...
Thursday 27 December 2012
Touchscreen offers new opportunity for PC brands: An interview with Acer president
The PC industry saw several major developments in 2012, such as the rise of ARM-based products that greatly weakened the influence of the Wintel platform and Microsoft's launch of...
Saturday 22 December 2012
Global EDA industry prospering: Q&A with Walden Rhines, chairman and CEO of Mentor Graphics
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...
Thursday 20 December 2012
Interview with AZZURRO Semiconductors CEO Erwin Wolf: Mass production of 200mm GaN-on-Si wafer will drive significant shift of LED market
With excellent cost advantages, GaN-on-Si technology has become a new focus in the LED market in order to cope with the severe price pressure for LED makers. In recent years, this...
Wednesday 19 December 2012
The challenge for mobile telecom carriers: Q&A with FET president Yvonne Li
Along with increasing use of smartphones, competition among mobile telecom carriers is changing and they are faced with a big challenge to transform themselves into total solution...
Tuesday 27 November 2012
Asustek wins recognition from North America consumers: Q&A with Asustek North America president Steven Chang
Asustek Computer's Zenbooks, Transformer tablets and the Nexus 7 have helped expand its brand recognition, raising its share in the North America notebook market from 7% in the second...
Thursday 22 November 2012
Green buildings: Q&A with Arthur Chuang, director of TSMC's New Fab Planning and Engineering Division
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has received Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certifications for its green buidlings. Digitimes recently sat...
Tuesday 20 November 2012
Developing innovative energy technology: Q&A with Siemens president and CEO Peter Loscher
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...
Friday 9 November 2012
GaN-on-Si for LED: Q&A with Azzurro vice president of sales and marketing Erwin Ysewijn
GaN-on-Si is a new technology that has the potential to replace sapphire substrates in the LED supply chain. Erwin Ysewijn, vice president of sales and marketing at Azzurro Semiconductors,...
Friday 26 October 2012
NTI software plays a key role in creating product differentiation: An interview with Bill Yao, President/CEO of NTI
Since the firm's founding in 1995, NTI has remained strong, growing steadily despite a few industry cycles of ups and downs. The firm currently has a solid position in the Hard Disk...