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...

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...

Aixtron, headquartered in Aachen, Germany, is a supplier of deposition equipment for the semiconductor industry, traditionally specializing in gas-phase deposition. VLSI Research...

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...

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...

Much happened in 2005 for the Taiwan LED industry with companies going through consolidations,...

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...

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,...

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,...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

Despite initial skepticism from some quarters, Bluetooth has established a growing market presence and continues to assert its viability. One interesting development is the proposed...

Zyxel Communications, a Taiwan-based broadband-equipment specialist, is ranked as the largest networking equipment maker in Taiwan in terms of market value, a total of about NT$30...