Samsung buying into a chip designer, Hyundai building satellite PCs..........
ked.co.kr
Samsung Electronics said that it will invest $700,000 for a 25-percent
share in Ko-Asia which a Korean will set up in Taipei, Capital of
Taiwan, this year.
Ko-Asia will design ASIC (application specific integrated circuit)
chips and input and output device chips for digital cameras, personal
computers, scanners and video CD players.
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Hyundai Electronics Industries launched a new PC brand on the domestic
market, which can receive satellite broadcasting transmitted by the
nation's Koreasat1 and Koreasat2.
The satellite receiving PC, model named Multicap Master 9530, has a
166MHz CPU, 16MB memory, 2.5GB hard disk drive and 24x speed CD-ROM
drive. Price is 2.31 million won (approximately $2,500).
Hyundai's satellite-receiving PC
( The Korea Economic Weekly 1997/10/08 ) |
