Semiconductor design-service companies face any number of challenges as chip complexity rises in direct proportion to time-to-market pressure. Couple that with the industry’s...

Designed in the late 1980s, digital audio broadcasting (DAB) technology is now coming up to potentially replace traditional analog forms of broadcast radio. Taiwan-headquartered IC...

To the outside observer, improvements in PC architecture are evolutionary but logical. Processors advance inevitably in speed and performance, in happy accordance with Moore's Law...

Qualcomm MEMS Technologies (QMT) was formed following Qualcomm's acquisition of Iridigm Display Corporation in September, 2004. With this acquisition, Qualcomm acquired a technology...

Embedded processors are now central to the converged environment that many in the IT and electronics industries are calling the digital home. Noam Shendar, director of Strategic Marketing...

The decision as to whether to go with a custom-ASIC solution or whether to take the programmable-logic route is one that increasingly confronts the chip-design and electronics industries...

Taiwan-based Merry Electronics, which specializes in speakers and receivers for mobile phones and portable electronics devices, has succeeded in developing a variety of accessories...

Despite the attractions of the fabless-plus-foundry model, any foundry hoping to compete in an industry dominated by the likes of UMC and TSMC will need to think carefully about its...

Projector vendor Optoma, a wholly owned subsidiary of projector manufacturer Coretronic, expects to ship about 50,000 units in the Asia region this year, up from 15,000-20,000 units...

Several years ago, US-headquartered Fortemedia was known as an IC supplier providing audio controllers for sound card vendors, including several Taiwan companies. While the company...

Even though the memory business is highly volatile, Taiwan-based memory device maker Transcend Information has been able to maintain gross margins of over 15% on average throughout...

Today, your digital camera and your mobile phone are probably operated and controlled with the help of a real-time operating system or RTOS. The chances are the RTOS could be from...

AMD’s drive to 64-bit processors surprised everyone with its speed, even as detractors commented that there would be little or no performance gain on the desktop without a 64-bit...

Aixtron, headquartered in Aachen, Germany, is a supplier of deposition equipment for the semiconductor industry, traditionally specializing in gas-phase deposition. VLSI Research...

Beijing Visionox Technology, a China-based company playing a role in the global OLED (organic light-emitting diode) industry, has set up China’s first pilot line for OLED production...