It is home to the world's No. 2 and No. 3 chip-packaging and chip-testing companies, Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) and Siliconware Precision (SPIL) .

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AICL, does a large part of Amkor's chip packaging and testing.

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Performance evaluation of the LSI engineering sample chip was completed previously, and as of today, all testing required to confirm interconnectivity to the mobile networks of major vendors has also been completed.

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We have to tip our hat to that beefy Qualcomm chip, as not one iota of lag cropped up in our testing.

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Another Forbes cover story on genetic testing, by Herper and me in 2007, predicted an avalanche of genetic risk findings from DNA chip studies of common diseases.

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