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To: Duker who wrote (28595)	2/26/1999 11:45:00 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

Wafer Foundry, DRAM Production Perform Strongly in 1998 February 26, 1999 (TAIPEI) -- Taiwan's Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park Administration publicized statistics on the top 10 products in the park in production value and sales in 1998. The figures show that wafer foundry posted a production value of NT$65.9 billion (US$2 billion) and sales of NT$65.6 billion, leading other sectors in both areas. Concentrators and motherboards posted the highest growth in production value in the period, of 40 percent and 59 percent, respectively. Desktop computers and flatbed scanners, on the other hand, saw their production values decline by 30 percent and close to 21 percent, respectively. DRAM, the only other product among the top 10 to see its production value decline, posted a drop of 1.51 percent. Despite this decline, the product ranked second after wafer foundry in terms of both production value (NT$48.7 billion) and sales (NT$47.6 billion). The production value of DRAMs has been more than NT$4 billion every month since last August. Notebook computers, integrated circuit (IC) packaging, motherboards, digital application-specific ICs and concentrators all saw their rankings advance from 1997 levels. Among them, motherboards and concentrators made the most noticeable progress. Flatbed scanners and desktop computers saw their rankings fall from 1997 levels. Flatbed scanner production tumbled by a record high 20.96 percent in 1998, mainly due to falling prices and the move of many manufacturers overseas. The production value of desktop PCs fell by 30.21 percent due chiefly to the growing popularity of notebook models and the low desktop prices worldwide. SRAM, which ranked eighth in 1997, dropped out of the top 10 last year. (Commercial Times, Taiwan) nikkeibp.asiabiztech.com