SanDisk not only serves as the world's largest vendor of flash-based memory cards, but also plays the role as a wafer maker, enabling the company to streamline all processes from...

AMD's recent launch of its 690-series chipset is the company's first launch of an integrated chipset since it acquired graphics chip maker ATI and represents a new milestone for the...

A number of handset and IT product makers in Taiwan have ventured into the production of PDA phones in the past two years, either on an OEM basis or as own-brand products. E-Ten Information...

During the first-quarter downturns for the foundry sector, China-based Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (GSMC) has been able to run at almost full capacity. In the words...

Formerly a senior advisor to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and research director of the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE)...

Established in 1973, the government-sponsored Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) is known around the globe as Taiwan's largest technology research and development center...

Taiwan-based IC designer Sunplus Technology has been undergoing a series of restructuring in order to boost the company's profitability. Last year it spun off three business units...

Anyone who has ever shopped for home stereo equipment can be easily forgiven for mistakenly believing that audio amplifiers are priced by the kilogram, as it seems the further upscale...

Riding on the wings of the golden era of Taiwan's motherboard industry, Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) saw its share price soar to over NT$200 by the beginning of 2002, while the...

In November of 2006, Altera said it will start volume production of its 65nm-made Stratix III family FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays) in 2008. About the same time, its major...

California-based Global Locate, a producer of A-GPS (assisted-GPS) semiconductors and software, recently caught quite some attention when it announced that its Hammerhead GPS solution...

The successful cooperation between foundries and IC design houses is well documented. With the division of labor getting finer, however, the once seamless cooperation between foundries...

The High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI), jointly developed by Sony, Hitachi, Thomson (RCA), Philips, Matsushita (Panasonic), Toshiba and Silicon Image, is enjoying fast growing...

When Nvidia launched its GeForce 8800, the whole camp of Nvidia camp graphics card makers was elated, and among them was Pine Technology, which markets graphics cards under the XFX...

Taiwan-based KYE Systems has been marketing a variety of computer peripherals, including mice, keyboards, speakers and webcams, gaming devices and other items, under its own Genius...