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...

The issue of whether LEDs will replace cold-cathode fluorescent lamps (CFFL) to become the major backlighting source for display products in the short-run has been widely discussed...

Taiwan-based Advantech is a leading player in the industrial PC (IPC) industry. Established in 1983, the company has been able to remain profitable due, according to company chairman...

Almost three years after it debuted at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF), wireless USB remains one of the most promising implementations of ultra wideband (UWB) short-range radio technology,...

Syntax-Brillian has been marketing Olevia-branded LCD TVs in North America for more than three years and the second-tier vendor projects to grow its LCD TV shipments 92% sequentially...

Taiwan-based Quanta Computer is expected to ship 20 million notebooks in 2006 and 25 million units in 2007. Since Quanta currently accounts for 30% of global production of notebooks,...

Graphics used in mobile applications are increasingly being found in a variety of devices, from handsets to GPS navigation devices to ultra-mobile PCs and are playing an increasingly...

DigiTimes recently has a chance to talk to Koichi Kubota, general manager of VI Marketing Department, Imaging Products Operations Division from Seiko Epson, to talk about the company's...

Established in the US in late 1980s, Tyan Computer has a good reputation as supplier of motherboards for x86-based servers and workstations. The company moved its headquarters to...

Aixtron AG has specialized in MOCVD technology since 1983, but the Europe-based company is now brandishing its latest acquisition, the California-based Genus, which supplies both...