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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...
Wednesday 8 June 2005
Defining Agere: Q&A with VP John Cummins
A spin-out from Lucent Technologies, Agere Systems offers a wide array of chip solutions that at first glance appear bewilderingly diverse. They include solutions for telecom, mobile...
Thursday 2 June 2005
Will Shuttle stay high-end or look to go mainstream: An interview with Jonathan Yi
A long-term fixture in Taiwan’s motherboard industry, Shuttle phased out its motherboard business at the end of 2004, and now focuses its business around its XPC small-form-factor...
Thursday 2 June 2005
Raritan: IP KVM business in Asia growing well
Raritan’s business in Asia has been steadily growing over the years, according to company vice president, Sidney Huang, adding that China and India are the fastest growing markets...
Thursday 2 June 2005
Tatung booth: blade servers and tablet PCs
Part of daily life in Taiwan and well-known in the OEM/ODM business, Tatung is using this year’s Computex to attract buyers’ eyes with its blade servers and tablet PCs...
Wednesday 1 June 2005
The design-service challenge: Q&A with Global Unichip
The global semiconductor industry is now seeing close cooperation between outsourced design and foundry. In Taiwan, the two leading design-service houses are usually identified as...
Wednesday 1 June 2005
Kingmax: Hot flash at Computex
DRAM modules are definitely a focus of attention for many industry players and buyers these days. However, the rising place of flash-based memory along with its growing penetration...
Tuesday 31 May 2005
Dave Orton muses on Computex and ATI’s role in the PC industry
On the Friday night before Computex, DigiTimes.com managed to catch ATI CEO Dave Orton on the phone to talk about the upcoming show, industry trends and developments at the company...
Tuesday 31 May 2005
A-Data: more memory, more ambitions
Rapidly advanced to be the third-placed DRAM-module vendor worldwide, Taiwan-based A-Data Technology is now exploring the market of flash-memory based devices. This June at Computex,...
Tuesday 31 May 2005
Tatung: flexibility is a key to success
Founded in 1918, Tatung is one of Taiwan's oldest companies and one of a very few worldwide with a high school and university of the same name. Employing 20,000 people in Taiwan,...