WASHINGTON -- Dr. Rick Tsai, president and chief executive of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., and David McCormick, undersecretary Bureau of Industry & Security, U.S. Department of Commerce
will speak next month on challenges and opportunities presented by the increasing integration of the U.S., Taiwan and China semiconductor markets.
The Taiwan + China
Semiconductor Outlook 2006 will be held Jan. 12, in Santa Clara,
CA. The US-Taiwan Business Council is host of the event, the third in a serie. The SIA is a cosponsor.
Visit www.taiwan-china-outlook.com for more information.
SAN JOSE -- Sanmina-SCI today said it would sign a multi-year deal to build PC peripherals for Adaptec Inc. As part of the deal, Sanmina will also take over certain Singapore manufacturing assets and inventory from Adaptec. The deal is expected to close in January, although no financial terms were announced.
HIALEAH, FL -- EMS provider Simclar Inc. will buy Northrop Grumman's Litton Interconnect Technologies assembly business in the U.S. for $28 million. Simclar Inc.'s parent company has agreed to acquire certain assets of the
Litton assembly businesses in the U.K. and
China through its subsidiary Simclar Interconnect Technologies Ltd.