Not being able to turn away anyone who happened to come along, and with each company only having to cough up around NT $ 1.2 million, the consequence was that at an international computer exhibition all the manufacturers from Taiwan had notebook computers based on the same prototype developed by the institute. The result was price slashing and chaos in the world market.
在來者不能拒、且每家廠商只要繳一百廿餘萬元費用的情況下，結果在美國康帝克國際電腦展上，出現台灣館各家廠商，人手一部同是由工研院開發的筆記型電腦雛形機，甚且當場殺起價來的「奇景」，弄得國際市場大亂。