Tag archive: Shih

Taiwan's Asustek, a leading PC manufacturer and well-known contract manufacturer of both PCs and consumer electronics, has announced that it will split itself into three companies in a move to separate its own brand-name business from its contract manufacturing businesses. “We think this will boost our competitiveness in each area,” said Asustek chairman Jonney Shih at a news event in Taipei. Under the proposed split,… Read More

Acer Chairman and CEO, Stan Shih, shares his thoughts on the convergence of PCs with digital home devices, at the opening of the Computex Taipei show.  In his keynote, Shih questions whetherdigital home devices will derive from PC-centric or TV-centric products.  The TV has been the hub of home audio-video devices for a long time but lacks innovation, while home PCs are becomingincreasingly popular but are still considered too complex… Read More

According to Kodak, the flexible display technology has the potential for use in a number of retail and consumer applications that require easy-to-read, portable and changeable displays ofinformation. Building on Kodak's expertise in design and production of precision multi-layer films, this new flexible display technology is characterized by its so-called "bistability," or the capacity to retain an image without being attached to a… Read More

With the coming of the “Digital Home” generation, the Acer Value Labs are striving to develop innovative Information Entertainment Technology (IET). Following more than a year's effort, informationtechnology (IT) products have been integrated with consumer electronics products using a wireless home network to share the information and digital content – and fulfil the Digital Home vision. Users are being faced with more… Read More