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Wednesday 22 March 2006
A Russian private brand speaks out, sees Taiwan as a bridge to China
Recognized by local experts as one of undoubted leaders of the Russian IT market, Merlion earned its reputation as the largest IT distributor in Russia and the company behind the...
Friday 17 March 2006
Re-defining microprocessors: Q&A with AMD’s Henri Richard, part five
DigiTimes recently named two companies as International News Makers in 2005. One of those companies was Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
Wednesday 15 March 2006
Actel's strategy in FPGAs: Q&A with Actel VP Dennis Kish, part four
Actel tends to play in the mainstream, value-based end of the FPGA market. That strategy offers a unique value proposition based on Actel's commitment to the use of flash memory....
Friday 3 March 2006
Wider gamut, brighter displays: Q&A with Genoa Color Technologies, part four
Start-up Genoa Color Technologies has developed technology that significantly enhances the picture produced by a wide variety of display types, including TFT LCD, front- and rear-projection...
Friday 24 February 2006
Competing in 802.11: Q&A with Ralink EVP Rick Jeng, part two
When wireless LAN (802.11) first began to see significant market take-up, any number of IC companies tried to compete, only to discover that it was tough going. Many of the original...
Thursday 23 February 2006
GeCube adjusts to change: Q&A with Larry Yeo, general manager of Info-Tek Corporation’s multimedia business unit
Info-Tek Corporation was founded in 1990 as a contract manufacturer for motherboards and interface cards and is invested by motherboard maker Gigabyte. The company has production...
Friday 17 February 2006
Chip-design solutions: Q&A with Jim Su and Hugh Huang of EE Solutions, part four
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...
Friday 10 February 2006
Back to Future Waves: receiver side of DAB
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...
Friday 27 January 2006
The processor wars Part V, Intel's Itanium: To be or not to be? Q&A with Nebojsa Novakovic
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...
Friday 20 January 2006
Leveraging MEMS for flat-panel displays: Q&A with QMT SVP Greg Heinzinger
Qualcomm MEMS Technologies (QMT) was formed following Qualcomm's acquisition of Iridigm Display Corporation in September, 2004. With this acquisition, Qualcomm acquired a technology...
Thursday 19 January 2006
MIPS to the core: Q&A with Noam Shendar, director of Strategic Marketing, MIPS Technologies, part six
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...
Friday 13 January 2006
The changing landscape for programmable logic: Q&A with Vincent Tong and Richard Terrill of Xilinx, part five
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...
Thursday 5 January 2006
Merry Electronics highlights sound magic for wireless applications
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...
Friday 30 December 2005
Silterra's strategy for success: Q&A with Steve Della Rocchetta, EVP, Silterra, part three
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...
Thursday 29 December 2005
Q&A with projector vendor Optoma
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...