Article: Taiwan Factory Crucial to the Highly Competitive Computer Add-On Business. (Originated from The Orange County Register, Calif.)

Nov. 10--It was midday. Compaq Computer Corp. had just unveiled the new LTE Elite, a 486-DX laptop with a color monitor and a $3,500 price tag.

But while Compaq execs were smiling, Kingston Technology Corp. engineers were sweating. Sequestered in a lab at Kingston's Fountain Valley headquarters, five engineers, some of them red-eyed and coffee-breathed, had taken a newly purchased Compaq apart, scattering its silicon entrails across a lab bench.

Working with the feverish intensity of safecrackers, they analyzed the circuits of the newly released computer, trying to figure out how to build an add-on memory card that would fit into the laptop without causing it ...

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