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Wednesday 21 September 2005
Consumer multimedia and the digital home: Q&A with YU Lee of STMicroelectronics
As a “classical” IDM, with some 50,000 employees, STMicroelectronics is strongly positioned to be a major supplier of electronics for consumer multimedia and the digital...
Friday 16 September 2005
Nvidia C51 to help grab integrated chipset market
Drew Henry, General Manager of Nvidia Platform Products Division, recently sat down with DigiTimes and talked about the prospects for Nvidia’s upcoming integrated chipset...
Wednesday 14 September 2005
A different type of TV: Q&A with RPTV maker Inshon
While market research indicates that rear-projection TVs are currently seeing a wave of renewed market enthusiasm, particularly in North America, models were not noticeably in evidence...
Friday 9 September 2005
The core of the matter: Talking with Tensilica, part three
The world of embedded computing now sees a myriad devices coming into the market, often complex in their "converged" electronic design. Among the responses from the chip...
Monday 5 September 2005
Syntax: Brillian merger will not affect relation with Kolin
Although US-based Syntax Groups is currently partnered with Taiwan’s Kolin for marketing LCD and LCOS (liquid-crystal-on-silicon) TVs in North America, Syntax was recently merged...
Friday 2 September 2005
Developing the Skype ecosystem: Q&A with CEO Niklas Zennstrom
Taiwan companies, which boast a strong capability in the manufacture of IT hardware products, are likely to become important partners for Skype Technologies as the company looks to...
Thursday 1 September 2005
LCOS specialist Brillian claims it’s different from Intel and Philips
Following a series of losses since it was established in the 1980s, Brillian recently announced it will be acquiring Syntax Groups, with a subsidiary called Syntax-Brillian being...
Tuesday 30 August 2005
Interviewing Vitesse, part one
Last month, Vitesse Semiconductor opened a Customer Technology Center in Taipei. Equipped with a lab, the new center gives customers access to Vitesse's team of application engineers,...
Monday 29 August 2005
Inventory problem taught me a lesson; an interview with Optimax chairman Larry Lai
Suffering from inventory pressure, TFT LCD polarizer maker Optimax estimates its second quarter revenues will increase only 4% sequentially to NT$5.2 billion. However, the company...
Monday 29 August 2005
Interview with Pioneer High Fidelity president Nobuyuki Kokubo
Facing aggressive competition in the flat panel TV market, Pioneer, the leading (PDP) plasma display panel supplier in the world, has been considering its sales and marketing strategy...
Thursday 25 August 2005
Philips CEO: Company to increase outsourcing of foundry services
During his recent visit to Taiwan, Philips Semiconductors CEO Frans van Houten stated that Philips’ foundry production is currently running at full capacity and the company...
Thursday 25 August 2005
Making wireless mesh a reality: Accton moves ahead in 802.11s
Wireless-mesh networking is like a rare species – often talked about but seldom seen in the wild. One Taiwan company busy turning mesh networking into reality is Accton Technology,...
Tuesday 23 August 2005
Acer aspires to an alternative to the Dell method: Q&A with company chairman JT Wang
Acer’s aspiration to eventually become the world’s number three PC vendor may have taken a step further. The latest figures compiled by International Data Corporation...
Tuesday 23 August 2005
Q&A with ChipMOS chairman: LCD driver IC testing and packaging ASPs to grow 5-15% in 2H 2005
The leading Taiwan-based LCD driver IC testing and packaging house, ChipMOS Technologies, is confident that the market’s bullish outlook will persist through the end of the...
Tuesday 16 August 2005
Printed TVs at your store soon? Q&A with Ian Chao of CDT
The keenest competition in the global television market is the race for the next generation of flat-panel technology, and leading the charge is the UK-based Cambridge Display Technology...