China Economic ReviewDongfeng, China’s second biggest auto group, plans to set up a joint venture with Japan’s Nissan Motor to produce a full range of motor vehicles, including cars, trucks and other passenger vehicles, sources close to the company told Reuters. The venture, to be 50 per cent owned by Nissan, will be based on Dongfeng’s existing […]
Swedish telecoms equipment manufacturer Ericsson is in talks with its partners in two Chinese joint ventures to rationalise manufacturing in the country, Reuters reported. The company said that its joint ventures in Beijing and Nanjing currently produce both cellular network gear and handsets and the aim is to have one venture in Beijing making handsets […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]