2010 臺北國際花卉博覽會
http://www.2010taipeiexpo.tw/frontpage/welcome.htm
There is no need to visit the web site. However, my venture there shows that a Flora expo is meant to about real flora in Taiwan, only to be overshadowed by the digital stuff.
Annie Huang, Taiwan flora show features high-tech displays. Associated Press, Dec. 14, 2010.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Taiwan-flora-show-features-apf-4269701475.html?x=0&.v=1
(Paper-thin speakers; 65-inch 3-D films with no need for special viewing glasses; Viewers' pulses turn cocoons into butterflies; a 3.5-ton artificial flower opens and folds its petals to the rhythm of pop music;
My comment:
(a) Pavilion of Dreams 夢想館
(b) One of the photos that comes with this report.
Associated Press, Dec. 14, 2010.
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//101214/481/urn_publicid_ap_org_f88640fb10e049d99caf51acca7d1154/
("a digital hologram flower")
(c) 2010台北花博夢想館的迎賓舞
Welcome Show in 2010 Taipei International Flora Expo's Pavilion of Dreams
(uploaded by heytobe, Nov. 15, 2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXsr_bVLJyI
(c) 夢想館~~幾米劇場
夢想劇場預告片（超棒的...一定要去現場看...） uploaded bymichaelliu1975 on Aug. 18, 2010.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfHYMHgeq5I&NR=1
--------------------------Separately
(1) Yang Shu-min and Elizabeth Hsu, Taiwan invents world's smallest RRAM architecture. Central News Agency,
http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?ID=201012140019&Type=aECO
Note:
(a) You can read a press release in traditiojnal Chinese, at the home page of
National Applied Research Laboratories (NARL) 財團法人國家實驗研究院
http://www.narl.org.tw/tw/
(b) HO Chia-hua of National Nano Device Laboratories
國家 奈米元件實驗室(NDL) 何家驊
(2) Shih Hsiu-chuan, Internet-access rate tops 70 percent. Taipei Times, Dec. 15, 2010 (available now).
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2010/12/15/2003491008
("The percentage of households with Web access topped 80 percent for the first time, while the percentage of individuals with access rose above 70 percent"
My comment; No need to read the rest.
(3)
(a) Ken Liu, TSMC Poised to Build One More Mega Fab. CENS (Taipei), Dec. 10, 2010.
http://cens.com/cens/html/en/news/news_inner_34579.html
(construction of the $10 billion Fab 16 will start in 2014 at Taichung)
(b) Yun-Hee Kim, INTERVIEW: ATIC Plans To Invest $6B-$7B In Abu Dhabi Chip Plant-CEO. Dow Jones Newswires, Sept. 14, 2010.
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100914-716283.html
(a third fab of GlobalFoundries, besides the ones in Dresden, Germany (in operation), Saratoga, New York (under construction).
My comment:
(a) The TSMC move has less to do with staving off challenges from GlobalFoundries, and more to do with its production not meeting demand.
(b) GlobalFoundries may very well dash China's hopes for a toehold in semiconductor industry--as well as Taiwan semiconductor industry's investments in China (a less advanced fab, that is).
(4) Don Clark and Juro Osawa, Power Blip Jolts Supply of Gadget Chips. Wall Street Journal, Dec. 10, 2010.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703766704576009071694055878.html
My comment: Just take a look at the color graphic. Taiwan is unable to make NAND flash.