CONNECT WITH US
Face to face
Interviews with executives in the supply chain
IN THE NEWS
Friday 15 September 2006
Now known as Vistec
Earlier this summer, DigiTimes.com had the opportunity to talk about the SEMICON show with the general manager of Vistec Semiconductor Systems Division, Gerhard Ruppik, and Vistec...
Wednesday 13 September 2006
The Mentor model: Q&A with Walden Rhines, chairman and CEO, Mentor Graphics, part four
Mentor Graphics is routinely assessed as the third of the "big three" in EDA, but in practice, this pigeon-holing is simply a comparative reference to revenues. The truth...
Wednesday 13 September 2006
Micron: Analyzing the present, looking to the future
Although the issue of excessive inventory is casting a shadow over the global semiconductor industry, players in the memory sector continue increasing their capital expenditure (capex)...
Tuesday 12 September 2006
Controlled chaos of renaissance: Q&A with Ho-Ming Tong, R&D general manager of ASE
Last year, Taiwan's leading packaging-and-testing house Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) was expected to have a tough time since the company suffered from a fire at its plant...
Tuesday 12 September 2006
The pre-N product market: Q&A with Michael Hurlston, vice president of Broadcom
Although sales of pre-N (pre-802.11n) products in the retail channel were slower than expected in the third quarter of this year, increasing demand for pre-N modules from notebooks...
Tuesday 12 September 2006
The Mentor model: Q&A with Walden Rhines, chairman and CEO, Mentor Graphics, part three
Mentor Graphics is routinely assessed as the third of the "big three" in EDA, but in practice, this pigeon-holing is simply a comparative reference to revenues. The truth...
Monday 11 September 2006
Trenching ahead: Q&A with Charles Kau, president of Inotera
Created less than four years ago as a joint venture between the Germany-based Infineon Technologies and Taiwan-based Nanya Technology, Inotera Memories is now seen as an example of...
Monday 11 September 2006
Where do we go from here? Q&A with Archie Hwang, chairman of SEMI
In June, Archie Hwang became the first chairman of SEMI from Taiwan. In practice, he wears a number of hats. Hwang is chairman and CEO of Taiwan distributorship Hermes-Epitek. Simultaneously...
Friday 8 September 2006
Making FLCOS TV a reality: Q&A with CEO Les Polgar of Forth Dimension Displays, part five
Microdisplay-driven rear-projection TV, particularly of the liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) variety, has been enjoying a revival of industry interest over the past couple of years...
Friday 1 September 2006
Beijing Olympics to boost semiconductor demand: Q&A with Bob Krysiak, general manager of STMicroelectronics' Greater China operations
When STMicroelectronics appointed Bob Krysiak as corporate vice president and general manager to head its newly established Greater China operations in October 2005, it stressed that...
Monday 28 August 2006
Moving ahead in mobile video: Q&A with VP Sami Hyyrylainen of Hantro, part four
Finland based and a specialist in IP for mobile video, Hantro is a small company but one with international representation. The company is now poised to offer both hardware- and software-IP...
Friday 25 August 2006
BenQ spin-off to help realize own-brand success: Q&A with Stan Shih
Stan Shih, founder of the Acer Group, considers that BenQ's plan of separating its own-brand and manufacturing operations...
Friday 18 August 2006
Pursuing polymer optics: Q&A with Christopher Brawley and Gerhard Fehr of Fuji Magnetics
Fuji Magnetics, the EMEA (European, Middle East, Africa) headquarter of Fujifilm's recording media division, is perhaps best known in the industry for its line of data media products...
Friday 11 August 2006
Aviza moves ahead in ALD: Q&A with Subrata Chatterji and Michael Martinez, Aviza Technology, part four
As the semiconductor industry moves further into deep submicron and begins to implement new design techniques and materials such as high-K dielectrics, new deposition techniques are...
Friday 4 August 2006
Armed with patents – An interview with Ron Edgerton, CEO and president of SigmaTel
Although the US-headquartered IC-design house SigmaTel continues to leverage its patents in response to market pressure from its ambitious China-based rival, Actions Semiconductor,...