Workers performed tasks under the mezzanines, including operating machines cleaning the soles of Asics running shoes.
"We would like to offer our deepest condolences to the victims, " Asics spokeswoman Masayo Hasegawa said.
So whenever possible, manufacturers prefer to put ASICs in their laser printers or cellular telephones.
The Olympic campaigners are therefore targeting second-tier brands such as Puma, Mizuno, Umbro and Asics.
Using ASICs would have left the group with a product failure if they guessed wrong on the standards.
These ASICs use less power than adaptive chips, are faster and, if you make large numbers of them, cheaper.
Asics' bylaws include standards prohibiting partners from using forced labor and child labor.
For Kihachiro Onitsuka, the founder of the Japanese athletic shoe company Asics , inspiration came in the form of an octopus salad.
Chambers says the company will continue to combine hardware, software and ASICs.
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After Japan's bubble economy burst and the domestic ski market went into a tailspin, Asics fell into the red for eight years from 1992.
Cisco also said it expects to double its software business over the next 3-5 years and discussed a greater focus on developing its own ASICs, White notes.
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The factory involved in Thursday's deaths, Wing Star Shoes, was built a year and a half ago by a joint venture between Asics subsidiary Asics Trading Co.
ASICs provide designers the flexibility and efficiency in programmability.
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The statement also says it expects partners to provide a "safe and healthy working environment, " and that Asics has the right to conduct inspections or have independent monitors conduct such inspections without prior notice.
Asics evolved into a general sporting goods maker, selling skiing, baseball, swimming and golf products, and scored notable success with its running shoes, putting out a well-regarded line of high-end trainers and racing shoes.
More than 15, 000 pairs of women's running shoes from Wing Star and bound for the U.S. operations of Asics arrived at a Los Angeles port in March, according to U.S. shipping data from online database Import Genius.
Founded in 1949 as a maker of basketball shoes in Kobe, Japan, Asics's sales are smaller than a global heavyweights like Nike, and it has become increasingly reliant on low-cost manufacturing partners in other parts of Asia to compete.
The involvement of Asics, which makes baseball player Ichiro Suzuki's spikes and is Japan's biggest sporting-goods company, in Thursday's accident led some activists to call for more pressure on non-Western brands to join efforts to tighten their supply chains.
Founded in 1949 as a maker of basketball shoes in Kobe, Japan, Asics's sales are smaller than global heavyweights like Nike, Adidas, and Puma, and it has become increasingly reliant on low-cost manufacturing partners in other parts of Asia to compete.
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