For one thing, overseas Taiwan firms are concentrated in areas that the Gartner Group considers "high-risk" --mainland China and Southeast Asia. Water and power supplies could be even more dubious after Y2K kicks in. Also, those areas are relatively closed to outside information. Most overseas Taiwan firms in Asia are traditional labor-intensive assembly operations, with only a moderate degree of automation and much outdated equipment.
一方面台商雲集的大陸及東南亞地區，正是國際機構 Gartner Group 所評定的高危險區，水電能源等供應的穩定度堪虞；加上當地資訊封閉，台商多屬勞力密集、組裝型的傳統產業，半自動化老舊設備很多，要毫髮無傷很難。