Flextronics, based in Singapore but listed in the U.S, is benefiting from an assembly contract from Microsoft for Xbox, but many Asian tech investors are anticipating Sony's outsourcing assembly work for PS2 this year, as it has suggested it will do.

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Outside of Singapore, regional tech companies are mostly final-assembly contractors and semiconductor packaging companies.

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The Virginia Tech group envisages a variety of applications for electrostatic self-assembly.

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Marks realized that tech companies would pay for design, logistics and distribution as well as assembly, so over the years he acquired companies in those areas.

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He realized tech firms would pay for design, logistics and distribution, as well as assembly, so he acquired companies in those businesses.

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Until recent years suppliers in developing countries produced only the lowest-tech components--like wiring harnesses--that could be shipped elsewhere for assembly.

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In most high-tech fields today, the know-how needed to make a component, sub-assembly or finished product has progressed too far and too fast for the average worker to be able to propose any useful innovations.

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