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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