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Friday 1 July 2005
Empia: PCIe is not yet mature enough for TV tuners
Founded in 2002, Empia Technology is an IC-design house focused on USB-supporting system-on-chip (SoC) solutions such as interface engines, flash disk controllers and video bridges...
Wednesday 29 June 2005
The SoundBridge solution: Q&A with Anthony Wood, Roku
Internet radio, while a bit of a contradiction in terms, is catching on fast. Not surprisingly, devices are now coming into the market that free the listener from constantly being...
Tuesday 28 June 2005
Kingston’s John Tu: “We will always keep some manufacturing in the US”
Far ahead of the competition, US-based Kingston Technology led the DRAM-module industry in 2004 with a 27% market share, according to iSuppli, while its two closest competitors, US-based...
Tuesday 28 June 2005
Hard drives go mobile: Q&A with Larry Swezey, Hitachi GST
The success of the Apple iPod has brought home to a mass market that hard disk drives are now considered a viable form of portable mass storage. And after all, millions of users have...
Friday 24 June 2005
Created to fly – An interview with Jack Lee, president of Dialogue Technology
Having created the Flybook brand name, Taiwan’s Dialogue Technology is now targeting the worldwide market with a new concept in mobile computing. The Flybook is a small-size...
Thursday 23 June 2005
Compal president still not sure about health of panel industry
When the market was very bullish on panel makers in 2004, Ray Chen, president of notebook maker Compal Electronics and chairman of packaging and testing company International Semiconductor...
Thursday 23 June 2005
Differentiation is key to success: Q&A with Motorola design director Jim Wicks
The introduction of the ultra-slim Motorola V3 clamshell mobile phone has helped Motorola sharpen its brand recognition, and the product is among the top-10 models in all the major...
Tuesday 21 June 2005
Kingston co-founder John Tu reveals secrets to memory success
Founded in 1987, US-based Kingston Technology, the world’s largest third-party DRAM module supplier, used to focus its business on the Europe and US markets. However, John Tu,...
Friday 17 June 2005
Communication chips and the China market: An interview with Datang Microelectronics
DigiTimes recently interviewed Shaojun Wei, chairman and CEO of Datang Microelectronics Technology, China’s largest IC design firm, and president of Datang Telecom Technology...
Friday 17 June 2005
Q&A with Microsoft’s Chris Jones: Longhorn coming summer 2006, open beta summer 2005, part I
Longhorn will be released commercially in the second half of 2006, and will include modifications that will help reduce, if not all together eliminate, phishing by engineering the...
Thursday 16 June 2005
Passing the wireless test: An interview with LitePoint CEO Benny Madsen
LitePoint, a US-based wireless test solution provider, estimates that Taiwan makers will double their capital investments in WLAN test solutions over the next two to three years due...
Thursday 16 June 2005
Designing for the digital home: Q&A with Kun-shan Lin, VP, Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments has a dominant position in digital signal processing (DSP) technology, reflected in its leading role as chip provider to the mobile phone industry, and that places...
Wednesday 15 June 2005
The market trend for upstream TFT LCD materials: An interview with JSR president Yoshinori Yosida
Japan-based JSR Corporation, a major supplier of color pigment dispersed resists used for producing color filters (CFs), recently started construction on its new LCD material plant...
Tuesday 14 June 2005
Java on the ARM: Q&A with ARM’s Chris Porthouse
In terms of both the installed and the developer base, Java is now the leading software enabler for virtual execution environments, and that means ARM is involved in the enhancement...
Thursday 9 June 2005
Acer founder backs BenQ's Siemens move
Stan Shih, founder of Acer group, thinks BenQ, a former subsidiary known as Acer Communications & Multimedia (ACM), has made an appropriate move by acquiring Siemens’ handset...