Transport & Logistics
Playing the middle man
April 2008: Supply chains connecting China and Southeast Asia are changing at both the high- and low-value added ends
Workers in blue overalls and caps work in near-silence in a 24,000 square-meter clean-room in Shanghai’s Zhangjiang High-Tech Park. They are manufacturing assistants, or MAs, who work for Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, better known as SMIC.
The workers are stationed at SMIC’s “mega-fab” in Pudong. Down the street are suitably high-tech neighbors like Lenovo, SAP and the maglev train to Shanghai’s international airport.
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The workers are stationed at SMIC’s “mega-fab” in Pudong. Down the street are suitably high-tech neighbors like Lenovo, SAP and the maglev train to Shanghai’s international airport.
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