Hewlett-Packard Co has a second licensee after Oki Electric Industry Co for fabrication of the Precision Architecture RISC for low-end and embedded applications, in the shape of Winbond Electronics Corp, Taiwan.Winbond will design, manufacture and sell the chips for use in low-priced, high-volume products such as X terminals, printers and multimedia applications. It is the second largest Taiwanese semiconductor designer and manufacturer and a major supplier of the Taiwan personal compute industry and was chosen because of its ability to offer an entree to the Chinese-speaking markets in Hong Kong, China, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan. It has also joined the Precision RISC Organisation as a senior member. Winbond Electronics Corp, based in Hsinchu, is a five-year-old $100m-a-year subsidiary of Walsin-Lihwa Electric Wire & Cable Corp.
