Summary
Financial and manufacturing hubs can co--exist!!
SG is 4th and 5 th in foreign exchange volume,
but manufacturing is 24% in GDP.Taxations in a year fr this
not--so --cool sector can build 3 hospitals of total
1500 beds.
SG chips(semi--conductors) making volume is no.2 by city
and no.6 by country in the world.
DETAILS
Manufacturing
not cool but still make $$
They say if u want to be a Global Finance Center or hub or
whatever,
u have reduce your relevance in manufacturing,ie lower % in
manufacturing
in GDP.
I think SG gavaman will give u a middle figure if u give him
this advice.
Starting few years ago,Singapore is striving to double
manufacturing output
to S$300 billion by 2018.
http://www.edb.gov.sg/edb/sg/en_uk/index/why_singapore/made_in_singapore.html
Manufacturing still plays a very important role in in
GDP--a good 24%.
We can go for hi--tech ,but also can go for soft side of
FOREX.
SG has been 4 th FOREX
center,after NY,London,Tokyo.
Last year,it drops one place,replced by Zurich in foreign exchange,
http://www.mas.gov.sg/resource/eco_research/eco_dev_ana/Recent_Economic_Developments.pdf
Dunt go for any hub or center.The jobs and tax the sector
provide counts.
In 2006/07 year,this sector provideS$ 1.7 billions,
more than the cost to build 3
hospitals of total 1500 beds.
http://www.asiabuilders.com/asiabuilders/2007/ABnews_single.aspx?rec_code=25582
No.2 in chips
making ranked by city,No.6 by country.
台湾新竹 Taiwan Hsinchu leads the world in chip making.
SG chips making is no.6 by country ranking,after
Japan
USA
Taiwn
S KOREA
PRC.
Money is not every things.
But without $$,u cannot do too many things.
http://www.scfab.com/index.php?p=news&id=20
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municipality when it comes to 300mm capacity? Taiwan's Hsinchu tops the list, but in second place
with a bullet is Singapore,
which has brought on at least one new fab online every year since
1995, and could sport more than $10 billion worth of new fabs
coming online from 2007-2010, according to statistics from
Strategic Marketing Associates.
300mm residents in Singapore include Chartered, UMC, Micron (and
its IM Flash JV with Intel), Systems on Silicon, and
STMicroelectronics -- which has more wafer capacity there than in
Europe, noted SMA'S George Burns. Singapore's ranking is
particularly impressive given competition with other regions that
offer large financial incentives to build (e.g. Dresden, and New
York), and those that boast existing chip infrastructure and
established players (e.g. South Korea).
Not bad for a place ranked 189th in terms of the world's land
mass. -- J.M.
This is only 300 mm fabers.
http://www.edb.gov.sg/edb/sg/zh_cn/index/news_room/publications/edb_chinese_sinews_2007/edb_chinese_sinews_mar07/chinese_sinews_article06.html
新加坡将出现更多芯片厂，图为德国世创电子材料股份有限公司与韩国三星电子公司的10亿美元芯片厂房大厦模型，2008年中投入生产。
半导体市场调查公司策略行销协会的调查显示，新加坡是世界上芯片产能第二多的城市，仅次于台湾新竹；若按国家和地区排名则居全球第六，前五名依次为日本、美国、台湾、韩国以及中国。
此调查是统计了新加坡的23个芯片厂及其产能，与其他国家城市相比后得出的排名。
同时，调查报告也指出，新加坡将继续吸引新产能发展最快的国家来新建立芯片厂。事实上，多家大型企业已有意向在新加坡设新厂。
报告还提到，新加坡的独特地理位置，使它成为芯片厂商进入快速增长的亚太市场的战略门户。此外，"它中文和英文通行，拥有世界最佳商业环境之一。"在经济计划方面，经济发展局能够提供非常诱人的奖励措施，吸引厂商在当地设厂及扩展业务
A US$1 billion JV of Samsung and a Germany company.
SG makes 10%
of global non--in--house chips
Some company makes their own chips(i call them in--house
chips).
But most of them outsourced
for others ,called wafers,like Chartered Semi--conductor
Manufacturing to make.
This cost at least 1 to 3 US billion just to build a chip
factory.
Besides,the jobs are very specialised.
Fast Facts:
Singapore's achievements in the Electronics industry
include:
http://www.edb.gov.sg/edb/sg/en_uk/index/industry_sectors/electronics.html