Mitsubishi Chemicals / Elek and Eltek / Maxtor / NEC / Myrica / Imprimis / Hoya / Seagate / Perdana Consulting / Legend / Stormedia / CAM-Mechatronics / Natsteel Electronics / Seagate Media / Uraco / Samsung / Hyundai / HDD / Miniscribe / IBM / Acer / Conner Singapore / South East Asia 87 / Western Digital / Tandon Singapore / Microscience / Fairchild Singapore / CDC / Rodime / HP / Matsushita Kotobuki Electronics / EDB / General Electric Singapore / Mitac / /
Continent
Asia / /
Country
Thailand / Japan / Korea / China / Philippines / Scotland / Taiwan / Indonesia / Malaysia / United States / Singapore / /
Currency
USD / SGD / / /
Event
Person Travel / Reorganization / Company Expansion / Labor Issues / M&A / Business Partnership / Person Communication and Meetings / /
Facility
Tandon plant / HDD facility / Conner’s San Jose plant / Pacific Studies University of California / IBM’s PC plant / Data Storage Institute / University of California University of California / Singapore plant of Conner / National University of Singapore / SINGAPORE Poh-Kam Wong Centre / Technopreneurship National University / /
IndustryTerm
storage media / data storage products / media manufacturing / contract manufacturing industry / IC chip design activities / optical storage / good supporting infrastructure / lower-end products / drive motor manufacturing / manufacturing process engineering services / value chain / manufacturing processes / miniaturized precision devices / manufacturing presence / local supplier / clean room design services / electronics industry / manufacturing / assembly / manufacturing investment / manufacturing process flow / flex-circuit manufacturing / semiconductor wafer fabrication / metal parts / disk media / metal stamping / chemicals manufacturing / start-up / manufacturing plant / media operations / manufacturing capabilities / media production / disk media chemicals / chip design services / manufacturing industry / manufacturing base / floppy disk drive manufacturer / manufacturing employer / electronics / manufacturing operations / manufacturing goods / manufacturing plants / precision tool / /
NaturalFeature
East Coast / /
Organization
University of California / Singapore Poh-Kam Wong Centre for Management of Innovation / Board of Investment / Innovation and Technopreneurship National University / Data Storage Institute / Jurong Town Council / University of California University / Information Storage Industry Center / University of California / San Diego / National University of Singapore / Singapore government / Graduate School / Malaysian Industrial Development Authority / DYNAMICS OF HDD INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN SINGAPORE Poh-Kam Wong Centre for Management of Innovation / /
Person
Andrew Ng / Tom Mitchell / H.B. Chan / S.C. Tien / Finis Conner / Gomez / Joe Chen / Jim Steger / /
Position
financial controller and engineering director / accountant / head / engineer / Major / first managing director / representative / US manager / director of the assembly operation / senior manager / manager / controller and engineering director respectively / regional sales manager / consultant / local HR manager / subsequently appointed managing director / director of operations / director of their plant in Singapore / lecturer / procurement manager / /
THE DYNAMICS OF HDD INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN SINGAPORE