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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,...
Tuesday 31 May 2005
JEDEC: Memory standards on the way
A seasoned veteran in the semiconductor industry, Desi Rhoden now serves as executive vice president at Inphi, a privately-held fabless electronic-components company located in the...
Monday 30 May 2005
Soon-to-be TSMC CEO offers viewpoint on TSMC, foundry market
Although Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) saw its share of the global foundry market slide to under 50% in the second half of 2004, the company has regained over...
Friday 27 May 2005
Expanding in ICs: Q&A with Elan Microelectronics
Taiwan boasts a fair number of fabless IC design houses, and several have emerged as significant players in the microcontroller and consumer-IC markets. One of these is Elan Microelectronics,...
Wednesday 25 May 2005
TSR: LCD TV market is key to demand/supply balance in TFT LCD market
Taiwan-based panel makers have recently become much more optimistic about their LCD TV panel forecasts for this year, perhaps signifying a recovery in the TFT LCD panel industry....
Monday 23 May 2005
Synopsys’ PrimeRail: Q&A with Shekhar Kapoor, Synopsys
This month [May, 2005], Synopsys Inc. introduced PrimeRail, an additional sign-off tool for the Synopsys Galaxy platform and one that complements the Star-RCXT extraction tool and...
Friday 20 May 2005
EMC re-invents itself: Q&A with EMC director Ricky Chung
The need for mass data storage exploded in the 1990s, and one of the companies that rode the crest of that wave was US based EMC. One of the most consistently successful companies...