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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...
Monday 22 October 2012
Coping with the shrinking ODD business: Q&A with Lite-On IT CEO Danny Liao
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...
Friday 12 October 2012
Trade barriers bad for solar industry: Q&A with Phoenix Solar president and CEO Murray Cameron
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...
Monday 8 October 2012
The possibilities of Willow glass: Q&A with Corning executives Alan Eusden and Dipak Chowdhury
Corning Glass is one of the world's leading makers in specialty glass. One of its latest products is the Willow glass, which promises to enable the commercialization of flexible display...
Thursday 4 October 2012
Gearing up for growing MEMS market: Q&A with Multitest VP of sales and marketing James Quinn
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...
Wednesday 5 September 2012
Addition through subtraction, turning software installation on its head: Q&A with Joshua Shapiro
One of the key issues historically on the Wintel (Windows-based PCs) side of the PC industry has been the lack of cooperation between software providers and PC OEMs (vendors). According...
Friday 10 August 2012
Losing R&D professionals may turn Taiwan LED firms into OEM firms: Q&A with Epistar chairman Biing-jye Lee
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...
Friday 29 June 2012
Focus is keyword for corporate restructuring: Q&A with LSI CEO Abhi Talwalkar
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...
Monday 11 June 2012
Revolutionary solar tracking system to expand solar penetration: The aspiration to become the Apple in solar industry
The following is an excerpt of an interview with Summer Luo, Chairman of BIG SUN Energy group and TOPPER SUN Energy Technology.