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  • proper noun a city and a county in northern Taiwan, southwest of Taipei

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Examples

  • His elementary and secondary education in Hsinchu was rather colorful and full of fun.

    Yuan T. Lee - Biography 1987

  • We did manage one Friday morning at 2 AM to talk with one friendly and probably bored girl in Hsinchu.

    Boing Boing: January 16, 2005 - January 22, 2005 Archives 2005

  • So in fact, on lots of sidewalks in smaller cities where the problem is even more acute (such as Hsinchu, which has no subway), there is actually only single-file space to walk on the formerly quite wide sidewalks, and you don’t just have to step aside to make room to other pedestrians, but scooters as well, looking for parking spots.

    The Curse Of The Scooter cjohnson 2006

  • District Court in San Francisco, Dennis Liu, an Elan spokesman, said by telephone from the headquarters of the chip design company in Hsinchu, Taiwan.

    p2pnet World Headlines – April 8, 2009 2009

  • TSMC, the world's largest contract chip maker by revenue, is looking for new suppliers of silicon wafers outside Japan following the March 11 earthquake, and has asked its existing raw material suppliers to boost their shipments to ensure its chip production won't be disrupted, Chairman Morris Chang said in an interview Friday at the company's headquarters in Hsinchu, south of Taipei.

    TSMC Is Upbeat Despite Japan Uncertainty Lorraine Luk 2011

  • The cartoons depicted two characters, Yi-ge, a Hoklo-speaking salesman from Tainan and Fa Sao, a Hakka woman from Hsinchu who speaks English, Mandarin, Hoklo and Japanese.

    Global Voices in English » Taiwan: Racist cartoon causes controversy 2009

  • Ms. Berger de Brito says that 30% or so of Global IVF's current Chinese clients have no medical necessity, a percentage echoed by Lin Tseng-kai, head of the Artificial Reproductive Technology Center at Hsinchu Cathay General Hospital in Hsinchu, Taiwan.

    Having a Baby in Year of the Dragon Is Too Lucky to Be Left to Chance Shirley S. Wang 2012

  • The Hsinchu-based company also announced its first tablet device — a portable personal computer with a touchscreen — and three other new smartphones, all running on Google Inc.'s Android operating system, as the group aims to grab a bigger share of the fast-growing market.

    Taiwan's HTC Launches Facebook Phones, Tablet Ruth Bender 2011

  • Cited as a gateway to the future development of the Hsinchu Biomedical Science Park, the CDC literally reaches out via its architectural design, through two central arms which welcome the public into its lush garden landscape.

    Studio Shift’s Epic Green Center For Disease Control | Inhabitat 2009

  • Visitors wait at the lobby inside the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. headquarters in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on Jan. 26, 2010.

    Surprise Demand Jump Lifts TSMC's Net 2010

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