UVAs used to be the exclusive preserve of major European, American and Japanese manufacturers, but the ROC government was continually pushing to raise Taiwan ’ s industrial self-reliance, and Everlight set off down the path of developing high-tech products. In 1989, it launched its own R & D efforts and began to build a factory. But after commencing production in 1996, it ran into one obstacle after another.
以往 UVA 是歐美日大廠的天下，但政府一直希望提高國內的自給率，永光在立定志向跨足高科技業後，1989 年起開始自行研發、建廠，1996 年啟用生產，入門後卻發現橫阻重重。