When the Internet bubble burst and pushed the global economy into recession seven years ago, Taiwan's consumer electronics companies began moving more of their operations overseas and increasing their investments in mainland facilities. But UMEC chairman Jimmy Ou decided to take his company in a different direction-he spent NT $ 700 million on a new facility in the Taichung Industrial Park to enter the fiber-optic field that was then just taking off.
7 年前，全球網路泡沫破滅、景氣重挫時，台灣 3C 產業紛紛出走，擴大投資大陸廠，環隆科技董事長歐正明卻反其道而行，在台中工業區投資台幣 7 億元建廠，跨入當時才剛起步的光纖領域。