HONG KONG–Dumb luck: for the second time, myself or my friends miss large Taiwan earthquakes. This one was a 6.8 to 7.1 tremblor with an epicenter 100km from Taipei.
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Mental Notes: April 2002
I am currently spending a couple of days in HK, organising my resident visa for TW. Then Sunday afternoon, a large-ish earthquake knocks the cranes off the top of the half-built 53-storey new financial center, just around the corner from where I used to live on Jenai Rd. (Sorry Tom – architect on the project and friend – a new bit of PR is needed on this one!) It is to be the tallest building in the world. This event reminds me vividly of when best bud Nina escaped the Sept. 27 quake of ’99 by one day. Yeah, that one was bigger by far, 7.6 and 2,400 deaths, but current word from TPE is that this one was one scary ride too. I’m back in TPE tomorrow, ready for rockin’ and aftershockin’. Egads.
ISuppli: Top 30 ranking of semiconductor suppliers shows devastating effects of 2001
Compiled from outside sources; Adam Connors, DigiTimes.com [Friday 29 March 2002]
The annual ranking by supply chain management provider iSuppli of the world’s top semiconductor companies, by sales, vividly documents the beating that the industry took in 2001, with only 27 of the 172 companies covered experiencing revenue growth.
GSMC, ChipPAC combine for end-to-end assembly and testing
Combined from outside sources; Adam Connors, DigiTimes.com [Wednesday 27 March 2002]
Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (GSMC), scheduled to start operation of its first 8-inch fab based in Shanghai’s Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park in 2003, and ChipPAC, China’s largest end-to-end semiconductor packaging and service foreign investor and manufacturer, announced on March 26 a non-exclusive alliance in preparation for GSMC’s plant coming online.
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Fujitsu, Yonago announce LCD business merger and spin-off
Compiled from outside sources; Adam Connors, DigiTimes.com [Tuesday 26 March 2002]
In a statement to the press, Fujitsu and its wholly owned manufacturing subsidiary Yonago Fujitsu on March 22 announced a reorganization of their LCD businesses. Fujitsu’s operations will be spun off and consolidated with those of Yonago into a new company called Fujitsu Display Technologies.
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Toshiba, Fujitsu in talks to form chip partnership to become second-largest; join semiconductor industry co-op
Combined from outside sources; Adam Connors, DigiTimes.com [Thursday 21 March 2002]
Hot on the heels of Monday’s announcement of the Hitachi and Mitsubishi Electric merger of their semiconductor businesses, Toshiba and Fujitsu are reportedly discussing their own merger, according to sources compiled by the March 20 late edition of Japan’s Nihon Keizai Shimbun newspaper.
Hitachi, Mitsubishi Electric to merge chip businesses
Press release; Adam Connors, DigiTimes.com [Tuesday 19 March 2002]
Hitachi and Mitsubishi Electric reached an agreement on March 18 to integrate their system LSI (large-scale integration) chip businesses and the bulk of their semiconductor operations. The announcement came after the close of the Tokyo share market.
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Mental Notes: March 2002
From a March 1998 posting on a Humbug bulletin board:
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2002: Via Ai’s eyes, more photographic vanity of Adam. Credit: Ai.
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2002: By demand, a pic of Mt. Fuji, Japan, from the window of Asako’s plane. Credit: Asako.
