Texas Instruments to invest $1B in RP

[claRkEnt]

I never heard about the 'plan' you said for Cypress and Analog Devices. Their facilities in Cavite are their Assembly/Test hub in Asia. I personally know some key players in their Management TEAMs and have last exchanged notes with them a couple of months ago.

same here! actually, Cypress' patner, SUNPOWER, is going strong they are now starting production in their second plant and last i heard is that they are fully-booked till 2009! that's how strong they are now.
(and they are headed by expat)

[Blackraven]

Good news to for the tech industry dito sa bansa.

Hopefully others will follow.

Good news too as Hitachi will be expanding its hard drive production business dito (shifting from their Argentinian production to the Philippines)

Wohooo

[CVT]

The good thing about TI (and the other semicon here in the Phils.) is that their country GM is a Filipino. Naipaglalaban talaga ung site. Unlike sa Intel Phils. eh puro expats.


come 2009 Intel Phils. will only be manufacturing chipsets. Gradually, most of the microprocessor assembly/test are now being shifted to the Chinese....and soon....the VietCongs.

bat pa ako napasok sa isang semicon company hehehe. sana sa telecoms na lang para malaki kita.

Bro.,- Intel, at one point in time, and for many years, was headed by a Filipino and his Filipino TEAM.

Look back at its history and see why expats (even Asians,- Malaysians) took over the Philippine operations.....

2601:kick:

[Horsepower]

so why will Intel ship out?

[uls]

Pag hiyang ang isang company dito sa atin, they will expand.

Obviously, TI is hiyang. Pero Japan gets a lion's share of TI's investments in Asia.

http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/company/factsheet.shtml

[squatt3r]

Bro.,- Intel, at one point in time, and for many years, was headed by a Filipino and his Filipino TEAM.

Look back at its history and see why expats (even Asians,- Malaysians) took over the Philippine operations.....

Yup, I know their story.

[oldblue]

bat pa ako napasok sa isang semicon company hehehe. sana sa telecoms na lang para malaki kita.

yup mukang telecoms electronics are the next big thing ...

papasok na ata yun mga clone phones like clone-PCs eh. Nokia, SE will be just like Dell, HP or Lenovo, mahal na branded.

gulat ako talaga sa pinre-sent sa'kin kanina na multimedia phone from China, lahat kaya gawin pda, ipod, video, memory card, touch screen. SRP 10k pero volume eh mababaan pa.

imagine pag naging mainstream 'to, multimedia clone phones priced at 6k each tapos entry level lang yun ng nokia. and like the Philippines that we are, mag-click siguro ito all-in-one china made phones katulad ng success ng clone PC's.

[mazdamazda]

Another update...

The government is now in talks with a group of Jap & Korean investors who have expressed interest in pouring in another $1B in investments in Baguio.

The only problem is that Baguio doesn't have space... the only viable solution is to convert the underutilized airport to an economic zone.

[artpogi]

keep 'em coming :clap:

[4wrider]

I just hope that after-election chaos will not be so bad as to scare away other would be investors.