Hon Hai Precision Industry Co (鴻海精密), the nation's biggest computer-component maker, will cooperate with two other local high-tech firms to collectively invest NT$44.85 billion by 2008 in Tucheng Township's Dingpu High-tech Industrial Park (頂埔高科技園區), the Taipei County Government said.
Hon Hai will invest NT$12 billion by 2006 to set up an R&D center on a 2.49-hectare parcel of land in the park. The project will focus on nanotechnology and molding machinery, spokesman Edmund Ding (
According to the county government, Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co (
DBTEL Inc (大霸電子) will earmark NT$27.85 billion by 2008 to build an advanced mobile-communications center and business headquarters in the park. The company plans to rent a 4.6-hectare parcel in the park and hire up to 710 employees, according to DBTEL president Kuo Pei-chih (郭佩芝).
The companies are just three out of 11 local high-tech firms that passed the first-round qualification review last week to rent land at the 7.25-hectare Dingpu industrial park, said Tsai Li-jiuan (蔡麗娟), director of the county government's Construction Bureau.
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