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Thursday 19 April 2007
Pioneer to promote blue-laser ODDs by offering BD Combo instead of BD/HD DVD Dual
Pioneer on April 17 introduced its Blu-ray Disc (BD) Combo drive, BDC-S02, in Beijing, China, and Digitimes interviewed Shannon Yu, Pioneer's ODD sales general manager for Asia Pacific...
Monday 16 April 2007
Intel and low-cost PCs in emerging markets: Q&A with John Antone, general manager of Intel Asia-Pacific
John A Antone, vice president of the Sales and Marketing Group and general manager for Intel Corporation in Asia-Pacific, recently spoke with DigiTimes about the company's...
Saturday 14 April 2007
UniVox untethers the VoIP user: Q&A with CSR's Eric Janson, part one
Best known as a designer of Bluetooth chips, CSR also does WiFi, with its UniFi chip. The Cambridge, UK, based company has now added a multimedia applications processor (MAP) to the...
Thursday 5 April 2007
Optical circuits and virtualization: Q&A with George Ng, Sun Microsystems' sales director for Greater China
George Ng, Sun Microsystem's director of sales and service for the Greater China region thinks that optical circuits will be key in the development of next-generation processors and...
Monday 12 March 2007
The coming of all-IP networks and business opportunities: Q&A with Mats H Olsson, president, Ericsson Greater China
Competition for the global telecom network equipment market promises to be fierce in 2007, heating up by the official operations of Alcatel-Lucent starting December 2006, Ericsson's...
Friday 9 March 2007
A second-tier LCD panel maker looks to rebound: Q&A with HannStar president David Joe
With LCD TV panels becoming the focus of TFT LCD panel makers, makers are moving to larger-size panel production. With this trend, first-tier panel makers have become more competitive,...
Friday 2 March 2007
Handset applications an exciting market: Q&A with SanDisk co-founder and president, Sanjay Mehrotra
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...
Thursday 1 March 2007
AMD keeping open platform strategy: Q&A with sales and marketing vice president Jochen Polster
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...
Tuesday 27 February 2007
Opportunities in smart handheld devices: Q&A with E-Ten chairman Hwang Shan-rong
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...
Friday 16 February 2007
Well-driven 'small car': Q&A with GSMC executive VP Arthur Kuo
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...
Friday 16 February 2007
Technology protectionism unlikely to help Taiwan's IT industry: Q&A with East-West Center professor Dieter Ernst, part three
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)...
Friday 9 February 2007
Swimming on the shoulders of giants: Q&A with Horus Shu, pixel magician from ITRI
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...
Thursday 8 February 2007
Restructuring for growth: Q&A with Sunplus Technology chairman Huang Chou Chye
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...
Tuesday 6 February 2007
Digital audio for digital TVs: An interview with D2Audio CEO Brian Wong
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...
Tuesday 6 February 2007
More consolidation expected in motherboard industry: Q&A with ECS vice president David Liu, part two
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...