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...phase of a $150 million mobile-phone factory in March. In the state of Orissa on India's east coast, South Korean steel giant Posco plans to construct a $12 billion mill. SemIndia, a company formed by chip-industry executives, will break ground in June on a $3 billion semiconductor factory in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. Others are coming around, too. Dell Computer recently announced its intention to build a factory in India, joining those it already has in China and Malaysia. In fact, the Indian manufacturing sector expanded 9% last year, a key reason why the country...
...more it punishes him. His wife becomes deathly ill, his children rebel, his friends snicker behind his back. "We're all together and our lives are filled with pain," he insists when the going gets roughest. That's only half right: at some moment between the occupation and the semiconductor, the Japanese ideal of togetherness faded. Now, as Kojima's sad, perceptive masterpiece instructs, it's every Everyman for himself...
International investors can be forgiven for never having heard of Motech, E-Ton or Sino-American Silicon. Compared with better-known Taiwan-based chip giants such as Taiwan Semiconductor and United Microelectronics, listed on the New York Stock Exchange, these three Taiwanese semiconductor plays have flown under most people's radar...
...until a stroke forced him to withdraw from public life in 1984; in Taipei. An electrical engineer who rose to become president of the Taiwan Power Company before entering politics, Sun played a key role in the island's rapid economic development, guiding the creation of its prominent semiconductor industry. Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian hailed him as "the creator of Taiwan's 'economic miracle...
...first wave is already in. John Aldeborgh, a sales executive at Varian Semiconductor, got to keep his company-leased Porsche as part of an exit package approved earlier this month. Tyson Foods CEO John Tyson, who took home $4.3 million in salary and bonus last year, got another $324,472 in personal use of the company jet. Fast-food restaurant Jack in the Box spent more than $51,000 on financial planning for outgoing CEO Robert Nugent, who made $2.1 million in salary and bonus, and presumably can pay for his own investment advice. There?s been disclosures...