a8 economist suntribune april 8 1987 business beat markham firm lands china deal by robert donnelly markhamcomputer firm semitech microelectronics inc has signed a 75 million contract to sell its portable computer to the shenzhen electronics group in the peoples republic of china the deal the fourth major con tract with the chinese this year also includes manufacturing and marketing rights to the computer called the stm laptop semi- tech however retains the worl dwide rights to the product the stm laptop is a 12 pound ibm compatible computer which retails for 4000 and comes equip ped with a variety of state-of-the- art features such as an electrolu minescent screen a 35 inch disk sterling trust drive a builtin battery pack and modem a mouse interface and memory expansion capabilities to 640k for now says semitech corpo rate vicepresident barbara dar- nowski the chinese will get an un modified north american ver sion with an english keyboard and numeric keypad because there isnt a standard to follow for chinese character input the laptops will run chinese software to perform a variety of tasks ranging from educational uses to business applications in chinas staterun banks in the companys relatively short fiveyear history they have established an impressive sales track record with the chinese most noteworthy of which was a 270 million joint research ven ture reputed to be the largest of its kind between canada and the peoples republic while semitech conducts all research and development here at its 60000 square foot markham facility its products are manu factured at a plant in hong kong in coming months the company will help the chinese establish a second plant to be situated in shenzhen chinas silicon valley alastair stewart fernie fsa flca up mm jeandenis vincent the law offices of levstein bradshaw w0lk0wicz are pleased to announce theirrelocationto 3410sheppardavee suite 300 scarborough ontmitsm 7542200 mr alastair stewart fernie and mr jeandenis vincent were 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