Texas Instruments Inc will move its Asian headquarters to Taipei from Hong Kong to reflect Taiwan’s growing importance as a production base, and will sign a strategic alliance agreement with Taiwan’s Economics Ministry later this month, stating the company’s intention to pursue joint ventures on the island; it is also making plans for a major expansion of TI-Acer Inc, doubling the capital to $800m as it builds a new Taiwanese factory to fabricate 16M-bit memory chips on 8 wafers; the factory is expected to begin pilot output in the third quarter next year, with volume slated to start in 1996.
