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Friday 23 December 2005
Art of voice processing – Q&A with Fortemedia chairman and CEO Paul Huang
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...
Friday 16 December 2005
Transcend confident to maintain good margins, expansion continues
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...
Friday 16 December 2005
Enabling embedded systems: Q&A with Vinay Panchdhari of Wind River, part three
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...
Tuesday 13 December 2005
Leading by design: Q&A with Dr. Raghuram Tupuri, AMD, part two
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...
Wednesday 7 December 2005
Not simply silicon: Q&A with deposition specialist Aixtron
Aixtron, headquartered in Aachen, Germany, is a supplier of deposition equipment for the semiconductor industry, traditionally specializing in gas-phase deposition. VLSI Research...
Friday 2 December 2005
Three OLED production lines to be completed by 2008: Q&A with Visionox
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...
Tuesday 29 November 2005
An EDA volcano: Q&A with Magma Design Automation
It’s normal in the EDA industry, these days, to say that growth is flat. That doesn’t apply to Magma Design Automation, which started out in the late 1990s, under the...
Friday 25 November 2005
LEDs lighting the future: Q&A with Biing-jye Lee, president of Epistar
Much happened in 2005 for the Taiwan LED industry with companies going through consolidations,...
Friday 25 November 2005
PCMCIA: broad acceptance of ExpressCard likely in 2H 2007
Originally codenamed Newcard (introduced under this name in February 2003 at the Intel Developer Forum in San Jose), ExpressCard technology represents the new generation of hot-pluggable...
Friday 18 November 2005
Spearheading Wireless USB: Q&A with Thomas Chou, Realtek Semiconductor
While industry experts have always pointed out that the Intel-backed universal serial bus (USB) is less versatile than its I/O rival, IEEE1394, USB 2.0 is now delivering up to 480Mbps,...
Thursday 17 November 2005
An interview with H.C. Ho, president of ViewSonic International
Amid a boom in demand for LCD monitors and LCD TVs, vendors still face many challenges managing their inventory and grabbing market share. DigiTimes had a chance to talk with HC Ho,...
Friday 11 November 2005
Flexible foundry: Q&A with Rafi Nave, VP and CTO, Tower Semiconductor
Tower Semiconductor may be one of the smaller foundries, but it is now placing a fresh emphasis on flexibility in meeting the specialized needs of its customers. Over the past year,...
Friday 4 November 2005
New trends in PCBs: Q&A with David Wiens of Mentor Graphics
The downturn of late 2000 to 2002, coupled with high levels of capital investment, placed many PCB companies in a bind. Those that have survived have been the companies best able...
Friday 28 October 2005
The Silicon-on-Insulator question: Q&A with Christophe Maleville, Soitec
A recurring question in semiconductor company boardrooms is, “Are we keeping up with Moore’s Law?” At technical seminars, the question becomes, “Can Moore’s...
Friday 21 October 2005
Philips Polymer Vision: Mass production of rollable displays set for 2006
Early last month, Philips Polymer Vision, a business unit within Philips Technology Incubator, Royal Philips Electronics, revealed its Concept Readius rollable display at the Internationale...