"Customers used to participate in design two or three years back," says Jack Hsieh, vice-president for finance at Taiwan's Premier Imaging Technology Corp., a major supplier of digital cameras to leading U.S. and Japanese brands. "But starting last year, many just take our product. Because of price competition, they have to."

lol.....their ability is in programmability....their not devising "ASICs that just do a set of fixed camera functionality" as I highlighted in a previous post.

IMO, there's a shell game going on and US companies dealing over there are behind it.

"they have to."

 Very bold comment.

doni