Change of venue: Japan's big chip makers discover Indonesia

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Overseas electronics companies are finally considering putting semiconductor plants in Indonesia, long avoided for its heavy regulations. Now, as other Southeast Asian countries develop electronics industries, Indonesian wages are too competitive to ignore. The govt will also let companies making components in special export zones sell a quarter of their output in Indonesia, tariff-free. Japanese consumer electronics companies Sharp and NEC plan $40 million and $83 million assembly plants, respectively.

Foreign operations, Indonesia, Sharp Corp. (Osaka, Japan), Matsushita Electronics Corp.

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Silicon stone age: Hong Kong is missing Asia's chip-making boom

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Hong Kong semiconductor chip manufacturing plants are several generations behind those in Western and other Asian plants because the government has done little to provide the incentives that chip corporations look for. Hong Kong companies only account for $59 million of the $151 billion earned worldwide by the industry. Motorola has engaged Vitelic Hong Kong to make chips for its consumer products, but the plant is using technology that is over a decade out-of-date.

Science and technology policy, Hong Kong, Technology and state, Technology policy

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Chip club: Japanese consortium proposes milestone microprocessor

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A consortium of Japanese companies and Samsung Electronics of South Korea are developing a new semiconductor chip design. The design would combine the computer's memory and microprocessor ont one silicon slab. The chip know as parallel processing RAM could produce gains in memory capacity and make computers cheaper. Most of the top electronics companies want to be involved, and if the new chip architecture is embraced, it could lead to an industry standard.

Computer industry, Japan, Semiconductor chips, Integrated circuits, Design and construction

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