East Asian Industry.

Jeffrey Henderson,The Globalisation of High Technology Production(1989):
Hong Kong was the first East Asian recipient of Fairchild investment in 1961 when the firm established a plant to assemble transistors and subsequently integrated circuits. From this beginning in Hong Kong the industry diffused out to other locations in East Asia. . .Taiwan was opened up by General Instrument in 1965 and South Korea by Fairchild and Motorola in 1966. By 1968, Texas Instruments, National Semiconductor, and Fairchild had set up plants in Singapore. 1971 saw the emergence of semiconductor production in Malaysia, while by the mid-1970s, the Philippines, Thailand, and Indonesia had also been incorporated into the division of labour,(pp. 50-51).