Word: chips
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...have a dream for American power, too. They say that there's enough wind in the Dakotas alone to power the whole country - that we could be the Saudi Arabia of wind - and I know there's enough sun in Arizona to chip in a little more, when solar-power technology is ready...
...cultural terms. The 22.2 million Taiwanese?and the rest of Asia as well?have now posited a Taiwan that is so much more than cold war bulwark and superpower pawn. The island that used to be thought of as the un-China, the anti-Mao or, later, the chip fabricator, the hardware producer, is now the bustling cultural center of Greater China. Of course the mainland still dominates the Chinese world in geopolitical and economic terms, but whose soap operas are they watching in Bangkok and whose Mando-pop CDs are they buying in Kuala Lumpur? Outside of Japan, Taiwan...
...Wong-Jiang chip factory that takes the trend far beyond the realm of sneaker manufacturers looking for cheap workers. Winston Wong was once heir apparent to his father's company, Formosa Plastics, one of Taiwan's biggest firms. In 1995, Taiwan newspapers reported that Wong was cheating on his wife with a university student; Wong's stepmother shoveled them much of the dirt. It turned out she wanted her own children to run the company. Her husband, Wang Yung-ching, who has three wives of his own, backed wife No. 3 and forced his son to leave Taiwan for embarrassing...
...Their Shanghai factory, Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., is wholly foreign-owned, with Wong as CEO and Jiang serving on the board of directors. It broke ground in November and should start producing eight-inch (20 cm) silicon wafers, used to make computer chips, starting late next year. It is Taiwan's biggest high-tech project in China. Just 50 m away, however, a nearly identical plant is under construction, this one owned by one of Taiwan's best-known chipmakers, Richard Chang's Semiconductor Manufacturing International. Combined, the dozen production lines in the two factories should be able to produce...
...season with not one but two hot gifts to grab, each in short supply. Each company hopes to release at least 1.5 million units by year-end--a million more than the number of PlayStation 2s that were available last Christmas, assuming the two can avoid the kind of chip shortage that bedeviled Sony. From the retailer's point of view, "it's like having a ticket on every horse in the race," says Joe Firestone, CEO of Electronics Boutique. Looks as if we have a winner already...