• DocumentCode
    858124
  • Title

    Offshore investors place their chips on Chinese foundries

  • Author

    Jen Lin-Liu

  • Volume
    39
  • Issue
    11
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    11/1/2002 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    15
  • Lastpage
    16
  • Abstract
    Judging China an electronics superpower in the making, large corporations like Japan´s NEC, as well as independent Taiwanese investors, are racing to set up semiconductor wafer fabrication lines within its territory. This paper examines how, all the same, given the overall downturn in the chip sector, some observers wonder whether this is the right time for companies to start building expensive fabs in China.
  • Keywords
    electronics industry; production; semiconductor device manufacture; China; Japan; NEC; Taiwan; electronics industry; semiconductor wafer fabrication lines; Bridge circuits; Consumer electronics; Fabrication; Foundries; National electric code; Production; Semiconductor device manufacture; Surface contamination; Thermal pollution; Wireless networks;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Spectrum, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9235
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MSPEC.2002.1045576
  • Filename
    1045576
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=858124