The area's rice fields are now dotted with technology parks and semiconductor plants.
Motorola plans to expand a semiconductor plant in Scotland.
Hence ends the saga of the semiconductor plant that was built in Reading in 1952.
The factory will be the largest semiconductor plant in Europe, employing 1,350 people.
The company will then invest $1.9 billion to build a semiconductor plant by 1999.
The result is that anyone wanting to build an up-to-date semiconductor plant no longer needs to turn to the United States.
Its residents had drunk water contaminated by solvents from the semiconductor plants.
Two semiconductor plants are already up and running.
Motorola climbed 3 5/16, to 47 1/4, after announcing it would halt work on a new semiconductor plant in Virginia.
Intel, for example, has announced it will spend more than $1 billion to build a semiconductor plant there.
