Silitech, a 60%-owned subsidiary of Lite-On Technology, posted unaudited earnings per share (EPS) of NT$8 in 2004. This year, the handset-keypad specialist plans to enter other handset-component...

Since 2000, the number of fabless IC-design houses in Taiwan has been increasing rapidly. Many firms today are producing similar products with little differentiation, and this has...

Having boosted its capacity by 50% with a new plant in China, Kingmax Semiconductor is hoping to increase its share of the DRAM-module market. But this strategy poses plenty of questions...

Syntax Groups has cooperated with Taiwan-based companies (such as Chi Mei Optoelectronics [CMO], Kolin and Prokia Technology) to produce low-cost high-quality LCD and LCOS (liquid-crystal-on-silicon)...

Stewart Wu, Ph.D., founded Altima Communications in 1997, in the US, and succeeded in developing the world’s smallest networking physical-layer chip. In 2000, he sold Altima...

Juniper Networks is building up its intellectual capital all around Asia, working from the premise of a strong support system for its customers. DigiTimes recently had an opportunity...

The president of the Taiwan-based analog-IC design house System General (SG), Chandler Li, talked with DigiTimes about the company, its target markets and how local design houses...

Compared to the previous two years, when the market demonstrated double-digit growth, an expected slowdown this year could mean a tough time for DRAM-module makers. For small players,...

Although the PC industry has always seen variations of small-form-factor (SFF) PCs, it was only when Shuttle Computer introduced its first XPC about four years ago that the segment...

On a recent visit to Taiwan, Ben Lee, Altera vice president and managing director for the Asia Pacific, sat down with DigiTimes.com to talk about the company’s strategy...

Si-chung Chang is chairman of several TFT LCD-related companies in Taiwan and China, including color filter (CF) maker Sintek Photronic, backlight-module maker Helix Technology, Global...

DigiTimes.com recently had the opportunity to talk with Ping Yang Ph.D., VP for R&D at foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). VP Ping Yang outlined the company’s...

Tul Corporation saw its graphics card shipments surge 70% on-year to four million units in 2004, making it the third-largest graphics card maker in Taiwan and ATI Technologies’...

Asia’s growing output of semiconductors, OLEDs and LCD-driver ICs means big business for equipment makers. SPEA, an Italy-based maker of automated test equipment (ATE) for semiconductors,...

Pretide Technology is one of several small, but fast-growing and very ambitious companies experimenting with emerging technologies in the hope of greater success later, when solutions...