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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Starting from the second half of 2007, Tessera Technologies filed a series of lawsuits with leading semiconductor companies, including Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE), ChipMOS...

Few people have enjoyed the success in both the private and public sector that IT maverick Chin Dae-je has had over the past 20 years. After returning to his native South Korea two...

As a leading micro electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) microphone maker, Akustica has established a solid foothold quickly. Company vice president of sales, Michael E Elchik, attributes...

Freescale Semiconductor has built success on its micro-controller unit (MCU) deployment, but the aggressive push from Motorola has prompted concern among market watchers about whether...

Having an early presence in the China TD-SCDMA chip solution market, NXP Semiconductors reiterates its confidence about the penetration of the TD-SCDMA standard in China in 2008 amid...

In contrast to the interpretation of marketers that micro electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) is a niche market/process, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world's...

HannStar Display, whose second 3G LCD panel plant has just been taken over by Wintek, has recently been dogged by rumors that it is also seeking to sell off its 5G plant (or 5.3G...

The announcement at the end of February that Taiwan analog IC designer Global Mixed-mode Technology (GMT) had reached a merger agreement with Aimtron Technology shook Taiwan's IC...

Although analogue-intensive and mixed-signal IC designer Silicon Laboratories entered the MCU (micro control unit) market less than five years ago, the fabless company was able to...

In recent years, Broadcom has seen its sales in China's domestic market grow at an accelerating pace. In order to cater to the demands of its ever-increasing clientele in the China...