Asia has some really good listed technology companies, from Samsung Electronics in Korea to TSMC in Taiwan to Venture Manufacturing and Natsteel Electronics in Singapore.
When Sprint wanted to enter the mobile-phone business in the U.S. five years ago, it talked to the leading phone manufacturers, Nokia and Motorola and Samsung Electronics of Korea, a company that was better known for making semiconductors.
Mr Lee, a graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is currently serving his military obligation in South Korea at Samsung Electronics, where he is working on TV interfaces.
Similarly, South Korea's Samsung Electronics will soon decide who will deal with its international advertising budget.
Not to be outdone, South Korea's Samsung Electronics Inc. was showing prototypes of its latest screen.
Ericsson has filed a lawsuit in the US against South Korea's Samsung Electronics for allegedly infringing its patents.
Some exporters, such as South Korea's Samsung Electronics, are so international that their valuations should anyway bear little relation to their countries of origin.
Clear gainers include Intel, which produces 85% of all microprocessors, and the makers of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips such as Japan's NEC and Toshiba and South Korea's Samsung Electronics, LG Semicon and Hyundai Electronics.
All of the companies that appear on the list are from Europe, the United Kingdom, Japan or Canada, with the exception of Bermuda-based Tyco International and South Korea's Samsung and LG Electronics.
Samsung Electronics gained 0.7% in Seoul and South Korea's Kospi Composite which advanced 0.5% to 2020.74.
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Unlike Korea's Samsung, which makes both consumer electronics and memory chips, Boise, Idaho-based Micron only makes chips.
And that's why LG Electronics , Samsung's nearest competitor, also based in South Korea, probably won't follow suit with its own Palm-based, phone-PDA combination device.
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South Korea's Kospi Composite slipped 0.8%, weighed down by its single largest constituent Samsung Electronics, which fell 2.7%.
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