Facts
Monday, April 30, 2001
Cyberport
Location: Telegraph Bay, Hong Kong (20 minutes by car from central business district).
Year announced: 1999. First phase will be completed in 2002.
Total area: 240,000 square meters of office space.
Chief tenants: To be determined. IBM, Cisco Systems, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and Yahoo have signed letters of intent to become anchor tenants.
Total investment: $2 billion, including cost of building 2,700 residential apartments, to be sold by the developer, Pacific Century Cyberworks, to recoup investment.
Multimedia Super Corridor
Location: South of Kuala Lumpur.
Year announced: 1995.
Total area: 750 square kilometers.
Chief tenants: NTT, Telekom Malaysia, MIMOS Berhad.
Total investment: $4 billion so far; initial pledge was $10 billion.
Hitec City
Location: 14 kilometers outside of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Year announced: 1997.
Total area: 63.2 hectares.
Chief tenants: Microsoft, Oracle, GE Capital, Toshiba.
Total investment: $320 million.
Hsinchu Science-Based Industrial Park
Location: 70 kilometers north of Taipei.
Year announced: 1981.
Total area: 580 hectares.
Chief tenants: More than 270 companies producing computer chips, computer hardware, precision instruments and biotechnology products.
Total investment: $620 million government expenditure over 20-year period, spent on "software and hardware" facilities.
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