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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...