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Friday 8 March 2013
What will it take to keep the TV industry alive?
Some market observers speculate TVs are increasingly becoming a thing of the past, as the use of devices such as tablets, smartphones computers and even Full HD projectors are becoming...
Friday 1 March 2013
Commentary: Entering the entry-level tablet competition a must for ODMs
Although some upstream supply chain players do not think notebook ODMs should join the entry-level tablet competition because of profitability concerns, it seems a neccessary step...
Wednesday 27 February 2013
With Intel grabbing Altera orders, can we now begin speculating about future Apple hookup?
Since Intel has opened up its fabs to other fabless IC firms, the Silicon Valley giant will pose a threat to TSMC at some point when it comes to high-volume orders, including future...
Tuesday 26 February 2013
Commentary: Does Taiwan need another nuclear power plant?
Taiwan is building its fourth nuclear power plant. The main island of Taiwan is only 36,193 square kilometers and already houses three nuclear power plants - two of them in New Taipei...
Wednesday 30 January 2013
Using digital to control power: Q&A with iWatt
When it comes to digital power, iWatt claims that it is the inventor of digital power control for AC/DC. The company notes that its technology allows its customers to eliminate BOM...
Monday 28 January 2013
Commentary: LCD panel industry still struggling
Samsung Electronics has reported record profits for the fourth quarter of 2012 because of strong sales from its mobile communications products, but it's a big contrast - yet no surprise...
Thursday 24 January 2013
Putting solar on anything that can be moved, carried or worn: Q&A with Alta Devices
GaAs solar material maker Alta Devices boasts solar cells with an efficiency of 28.8%, but perhaps even more astonishing is the fact it can produce GaAs cells that are only 1-micron...
Monday 21 January 2013
Living on the IP edge: Q&A with Vitesse CTO Martin Nuss
Vitesse Semiconductor has been a major player in the semiconductor industry for the past 28 years, from its role in the telecom area in the heyday of SONET/SDH to becoming involved...
Monday 21 January 2013
Commentary: How much longer will LCD dominate the TV market?
Panasonic is shutting down its only dedicated plasma TV manufacturing plant in Shanghai, China, marking the total defeat of the technology by the LCD competition in the consumer ma...
Wednesday 16 January 2013
TSMC with 20nm SoC most likely to secure chip orders from Apple, says Digitimes Research analyst
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is expected to start making an integrated AP/GPU solution for Apple, using 20nm SoC process technology, according to Digitimes Research...
Thursday 30 August 2012
TSMC has no good reason to accept investment from particular clients, says Digitimes Research
A recent Bloomberg report cited unnamed sources as saying that Apple and Qualcomm had been rebuffed in separate attempts to invest cash in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing...
Friday 3 August 2012
Commentary: India marks 1GW solar milestone with power outage
For a country to begin and maintain industrialization, infrastructures such as railroad systems, highways, bridges, ports, buildings, roads, and most important of all, electricity,...
Thursday 14 June 2012
Commentary: Poland has potential to build a strong renewable energy sector
Compared to countries in the same region, Poland seems promising. From the printed version of The Economist on June 9, Poland's latest GDP was 3.5%. This relatively high...
Tuesday 8 May 2012
Commentary: A Micron-Elpida merger would improve DRAM industry health
Micron Technology reportedly has reached the final stage of talks on the purchase of Elpida Memory. The possible merger of Micron and Elpida will help to restore a healthier supply-demand...
Tuesday 8 May 2012
Simon Sze and his invention of floating-gate NVM
NAND flash memory is among the key components used in today's popular consumer technology products. The birth of NAND flash could be credited to two Bell Labs researchers who fabricated...