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Friday 12 August 2005
ARM advances: Q&A with ARM VP John Cornish
ARM (Advanced RISC Machines) continues to turn the soft-IP business model into a success story. Last year saw the company undertake major acquisitions, and this year will see the...
Friday 5 August 2005
Goodbye RioWorks, hello Arima!
Having moved most of its manufacturing to Wujiang in China’s Jiangsu Province (about 20km from Suzhou and 60km from Shanghai), Taipei-headquartered Arima Computer is already...
Tuesday 2 August 2005
Supplying storage solutions: Q&A with Acard Technology
Acard Technology is best known for its SCSIDE bridge solution, which allows IDE, and now SATA, drives to be aggregated on a SCSI interface. This allows mass data storage solutions...
Thursday 28 July 2005
Building the one stop shop: Q&A with newly appointed Motorola Taiwan president Tom Hsiao
Tom Hsiao, the newly appointed president of Motorola Electronics Taiwan, promised to implement Motorola’s successful experience in promotion of handset sales in the Taiwan market...
Wednesday 27 July 2005
Next-generation Wi-Fi from Metalink: Q&A with VP David Pereg
Headquartered in Israel, with design centers in both the US and Israel, Metalink Broadband is moving ahead with wireless LAN at the 802.11n standard and recently announced a new chipset...
Friday 22 July 2005
Talking to Mentor: Q&A with Johnny Chang of Mentor Graphics
Measured in purely financial terms, Mentor Graphics is not as large as its two nearest neighbors at the top of the EDA industry. Nevertheless, Mentor is an acknowledged EDA leader...
Friday 15 July 2005
Bluetooth car kits: expectations and reality
Highlighted this year as an innovation that will help a whole new range of devices enter the car market and raise the penetration of the technology itself, Bluetooth car kits are...
Tuesday 12 July 2005
A briefing on the Blackfin: Q&A with Analog Devices
Analog Devices’ Blackfin processor is an unusual design that combines control processing and digital signal processing on the same chip. Jointly developed with Intel, the Blackfin...
Tuesday 12 July 2005
Spreadtrum optimistic about TD-SCDMA in China 3G market
Headquartered in the US and Shanghai, Fabless-IC design firm Spreadtrum Communications was China’s first company to develop GSM/GPRS-based (2G/2.5G) baseband processors, with...
Tuesday 12 July 2005
BenQ CEO confident of Siemens deal
BenQ’s agreement to buy Siemens AG’s money-losing Mobile Phones unit has been greeted mostly with skepticism and pessimism in the business world. The media and many market...
Friday 8 July 2005
Xilinx CEO explains company advantages; refutes Altera’s faster FPGA claim
Crediting its success to its 90nm product segment and multi-foundry strategy with manufacturing partners United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) and Toshiba, Xilinx expects to see...
Thursday 7 July 2005
On the shoulder of the giant: An interview with TFT LCD panel maker Innolux
Innolux Display began having its stock traded on Taiwan’s Emerging Stock Board this week, and although Innolux is the seventh Taiwan-based company to enter the TFT LCD business,...
Wednesday 6 July 2005
Success the fabless way: Q&A with Faraday
Working closely with foundry UMC, Faraday Technology is generally acknowledged to be Taiwan’s leading design service house. Faraday has seen success in an intensely competitive...
Tuesday 5 July 2005
Developing the China TFT LCD panel industry: Q&A with BOE OT
Located in the BOE Display Technology Park in Beijing, China, Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology (BOE OT) was established in June, 2003, with a 50% investment from China's BOE...
Friday 1 July 2005
Extending WLAN to PHS: Q&A with Atheros CEO Craig Barratt
Having unveiled the world’s first 802.11a, 802.11a/b and 802.11a/b/g WLAN chips for PC systems, Atheros Communications is now venturing into the mobile and consumer electronics...