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Wednesday 15 August 2007
Turning weeks into days: Q&A with Berkeley Design Automation CEO Ravi Subramanian
Within the global EDA (electronic design automation) industry, Berkeley Design Automation (BDA) is the new kid on the block, with the startup having been in existence for only four...
Thursday 9 August 2007
Taking root in Taiwan: Q&A with Asahi Glass Taiwan subsidiary chairman Tetsuji Kakimoto
Digitimes had the opportunity to interview Tetsuji Kakimoto, chairman and president of Asahi Glass Fine Techno Taiwan (AFT), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Japan-based Asahi Glass,...
Wednesday 8 August 2007
Platform advancement in high gear: Q&A with Novellus dielectric group senior director product manager Julian Hsieh
During Novellus Systems' recent investor conference, the leading plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) system supplier suggested that the global semiconductor industry...
Wednesday 8 August 2007
Surviving in competitive markets: Q&A with Tony Wong, president of PC Partner
With Taiwan-based first-tier motherboard and graphics card makers accounting for over 90% of worldwide motherboard shipments, it is easy to assume that Taiwan has also conquered the...
Monday 30 July 2007
A perfect spin-off: Q&A with NXP president and CEO Frans van Houten, part II
It is almost a year since Royal Philips Electronics transformed Philips Semiconductors into NXP Semiconductors...
Thursday 12 July 2007
Controlling your future: Q&A with Arthur Lin, CEO of the Sunix Group
In a world where everything from banking machines to information kiosks to traffic lights are all interconnected, communication links and the systems that link them all together are...
Thursday 28 June 2007
Late but focused: Q&A with Kingston NAND flash director, Darwin Chen, part II
Despite its relatively late presence in the NAND flash sector, Kingston Technology, which is well known for its DRAM module business, sees its late presence as giving the company...
Thursday 28 June 2007
GPS applications in handsets to see explosive growth: Q&A with SiRF founder Kanwar Chadha
SiRF's recent success in the GPS chip market is undeniable. But for Kanwar Chadha, founder of the IC design house, SiRF still has a long way to go. Digitimes recently talked with...
Wednesday 27 June 2007
MediaFLO ecosystem is ready: Q&A with Omar Javaid from Qualcomm
Although the promotion of MediaFLO as a standard for mobile TV broadcasting by Qualcomm was lagging behind other technologies such as DVB-H and DMB in the beginning, commercial MediaFLO...
Monday 25 June 2007
No more Frankenstein means opportunity: Q&A with Synopsys CEO, Aart de Geus
As more customers are now preferring their solutions to be made on one complete automation design platform, Synopsys believes it is exposed to more opportunities like growing partnerships...
Wednesday 20 June 2007
Blue-laser to take up 20-30% of ODD sales volume in 2010, Q&A with Masayuki Kozuka of Matsushita
In light of emerging global demand for blue-laser – Blu-ray Disc (BD) and/or HD DVD – optical disc drives (ODDs) Matsushita Electric Industrial (Panasonic) has established...
Wednesday 13 June 2007
When dual-core is a must for handsets: Q&A with Casey Springer from IDT
When the concept of "dual-core" spreads from PC to handsets, chip makers will be addressing challenges arising from basic handset functions and multimedia content management...
Tuesday 12 June 2007
Asia becoming market leader in Wi-Fi handsets: Q&A with Milos Djokovic, CEO and president of Zi Corporation
VoIP telephony is increasingly being adopted in use around the world and Wi-Fi handsets are playing an ever larger role in this sector. Milos Djokovic, CEO and president of Zi Corporation,...
Friday 8 June 2007
Intel discusses quad-core processor server market: Q&A with Boyd Davis, general manager of server platform group marketing of Intel
With AMD and Intel pushing their quad-core server processors at Computex Taipei 2007, Digitimes got a chance to talk to Boyd Davis, general manager of server platform group marketing...
Friday 8 June 2007
Intel discusses Bearlake: Q&A with Richard Malinowski, vice president, chipset group, Intel
With the launch of its 3 series chipset (Bearlake) at Computex Taipei 2007, Intel expects to see the chipset ramp to become the mainstream standard in 2007, while introducing new...