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Monday 9 June 2008
Trends in storage, the economy and network: Comments from LSI CEO Abhi Talwalkar
LSI was founded in 1981 as an ASIC company that did service functions, which meant basically it turned others companies' IP into silicon. The company did that for more than 20 years,...
Monday 9 June 2008
Trends in the Wi-Fi industry: An interview with Michael Hurlson of Broadcom
Just before Broadcom spoke at the Computex CE Summit on June 4, Digitimes had the opportunity to chat with Michael Hurlson, vice president and general manager for the Home and Wireless...
Friday 6 June 2008
Intel is ready for MID challenge: Q&A with Anand Chandrasekher, manager of Intel ultra mobility group
With Nvidia recently revealing its Tegra processor for mobile computer products to challenge Intel's Atom platform on MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices), Digitimes took the opportunity...
Friday 6 June 2008
Ubiquitous media connectivity: A discussion with Alice Chang, CEO of CyberLink
Improvement in PC hardware in recent years has helped spur the development, creation and manipulation of multimedia, especially video. CyberLink is well known for its multimedia software...
Thursday 5 June 2008
WiMAX is an opportunity for Taiwan to become leading total solutions provider: Interview with John Hsuan, vice chairman of UMC
John Hsuan, vice chairman of United Microelectronic Corporation (UMC) and concurrently chairman of Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL), is a 30-year veteran of the Taiwan IT industry...
Friday 30 May 2008
Profitability more important than ranking: Q&A with UTAC president and CEO JC Lee
Being one of the top-ten IC packaging and testing companies in terms of sales, United Test and Assembly Center (UTAC) stresses the importance of profitability rather than ranking,...
Wednesday 21 May 2008
A focused CMOS image sensor maker: Q&A with OmniVision sales VP Ray Cisneros
Despite the CMOS image sensor market undergoing a structural change, as evident in Micron Technology spinning off its CMOS image sensor unit as Aptina Imaging, as well as the rising...
Tuesday 20 May 2008
Distributing NXP ICs is "easy": Q&A with NXP Asia Pacific sales and marketing VP TL Chow
Soon after meeting with distributors in the Asia Pacific region, NXP Semiconductors Asia Pacific sales and marketing vice president, TL Chow met with Digitimes and shared his comments...
Friday 16 May 2008
Well-positioned for an audio IC boom: Q&A with Wolfson CEO Dave Shrigley
Seeing demand for good quality audio performance penetrating a wide array of consumer electronics, Wolfson Microelectronics, a leading-player in the high-end audio solution market,...
Wednesday 14 May 2008
Pursuit of a 100% on-year sales growth in 2008: Q&A with PTMD general manager Tom Lei
Despite the price plunge in NAND flash dragging PTMD, a joint-venture between ProMOS Technologies and China Potevio Company on memory card sales, into losses in the first quarter...
Monday 12 May 2008
From ASIC to CSSP: Q&A with QuickLogic Greater China sales director David Kuo
David Kuo, sales director for QuickLogic in Greater China, emphasized that QuickLogic will shift its focus from field-programmable gate array (FPGA) to customer specific standard...
Tuesday 29 April 2008
Pegatron needs more time: Q&A with Denese Yao, spokesperson for Pegatron and Unihan
A quarter has passed since Asustek Computer spun-off its ODM business, however, there are still many questions surrounding the roles the two spun-off companies will play in the market...
Thursday 24 April 2008
A "Renaissance" in IC testing and packaging: Q&A with ASE R&D chief officer Ho-Ming Tong
Already holding a secure foothold in the flip-chip (FC) IC packaging sector, Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) believes that a Renaissance in the testing and packaging industry...
Thursday 24 April 2008
Taiwan WiMAX deal with Intel a new beginning: Q&A with Ho Mei-yueh, chairperson of CEPD
Ho Mei-yueh, chairperson of Taiwan's Council for Economic Planning and Development (CEPD), helped initiate the development of the WiMAX industry in Taiwan in 2002. Ho played an important...
Wednesday 23 April 2008
Fair business environment necessary: Q&A with Tessera COO Mike Bereziuk
Starting from the second half of 2007, Tessera Technologies filed a series of lawsuits with leading semiconductor companies, including Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE), ChipMOS...