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Incubation centre for Singapore

China will set up an incubation centre in Singapore to help Chinese high-tech enterprises to internationalise and commercialise their technologies, South China Morning Post said. The Torch High Tech Industry Development Centre, the promotion arm of China’s Ministry of Science and Technology, has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Singaporean Economic Development Board to […]

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Rainbow station

deal that will allow Publicitas to run everything from programming to advertising for Ningxia Satellite Television gives the Swiss media giant access to two of China’s wealthiest markets – Beijing and Shanghai. As competition heats up for advertising revenue in China’s television industry, foreign companies are scrambling to get a piece of the action. One […]

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Hynix reveals huge fake problem

Hynix Semiconductor of South Korea, the world’s third largest maker of computer memory chips, has alleged that as much as 70 per cent of the 128-megabit dynamic random- access memory (DRAM) chips sold on the China spot market under its brand name are counterfeit, Bloomberg reported. DRAM chips provide the main memory for personal computers. […]

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Legend aims for 40% market share

Legend Group, China’s largest domestic computer maker, aims this year to increase its share of the Chinese market to 40 per cent from 2001’s 30 per cent, senior vice president Liu Jun told China Daily. It shipped 2.8m-2.9m PCs in the financial year ending March 2002. One of the group’s key strategies this year is […]

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Sony to build new plant at Wuxi

Japanese consumer electronics giant Sony will build a US$78m semiconductor assembly plant in China, Nihon Keizai Shimbun said. The location is likely to be Wuxi, Jiangsu province, where Sony already produces notebook computers. Semi-finished chips will be brought from Sony’s plants in Japan and completed for use in digital cameras and Sony’s Playstation II game […]