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...

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...

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,...

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....

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...

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...

Ranked as the 13th biggest DRAM-module manufacturer in 2003, Apacer last year advanced to be the fifth, according to a recent iSuppli report. The research company said “Apacer...

Altera recently reported better-than-expected sales growth of 10% in the first quarter of 2005 and the company claims it has gained three points of market share in the FPGA segments...

Taiwan test company Ardentec Corporation is offering a range of test services that implement on-wafer test and the identification of “known good die.” Using this approach,...

Adam Judd, vice president for Juniper Networks Asia Pacific was in Taiwan on May 9 for the opening of the company’s new Taipei office. Juniper Networks has almost doubled its...

A-Data Technology was founded in 2001 and three years later was named fourth-largest third-party DRAM-module manufacturer by iSuppli. Then, A-Data entered the top-three in the world,...

Established in 1984, Chun Yun Electronics was one of many Taiwan-based display and TV set makers until Jack Ko, co-founder of Gigabyte Technology, and his team joined the company...

Motorola is integrating the resources of all of its business units in the Asia-Pacific region and intends to focus on its R&D efforts in Taiwan and China for the upcoming 3G services...

The traditional concept of the Science Park – at least as it is understood in Taiwan – is one of putting a number of high-tech companies in one central location, combining...

Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE), one of the world’s leading packaging and testing companies, recently saw most of the major production lines at its Chungli plant destroyed...