Longtan
See also: lóngtán
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Mandarin 龍潭 / 龙潭 (Lóngtán).
Proper noun
[edit]Longtan
- A district of Jilin, Jilin, China.
- 2022 April 2, “Xinhua Photo Daily April 2, 2022”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency[1], archived from the original on 02 April 2022[2]:
- A forest fire brigade member transfers vegetables in Longtan District, Jilin of northeast China's Jilin Province, March 30, 2022.
- A district of Taoyuan, Taiwan.
- 2015 December 15, “Apple opens ‘secret’ lab in northern Taiwan to develop new displays”, in South China Morning Post[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on December 16, 2015, China[4]:
- The building in Longtan, north of the island, has at least 50 engineers and other workers creating new screens for devices including iPhones and iPads, said the people, who asked not to be identified as the details were not public. Apple hired workers from local display maker AU Optronics as well as Qualcomm, which used to own the building, they said.
- 2023 November 8, Sarah Wu, “Taiwan's land squeeze pits advanced chips against ancestral temples”, in Reuters[5], archived from the original on November 8, 2023, Climate & Energy / Climate Change[6]:
- Wei Hsin-hsi and his wife pose for a picture outside their family’s temple that is located inside the proposed expansion area of an industrial park in the Longtan district of Taoyuan, in Taoyuan, Taiwan September 22, 2023. […]
Two weeks later, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (2330.TW) (TSMC), the world's largest contract chipmaker, dropped plans to build a factory as part of the science park expansion in the bucolic Longtan district nearby - a development that heartened protesters and laid bare one of Taiwan's increasingly fraught "five shortages". […]
The science park administration, which had noted that Hsinchu and Longtan are running out of space to create advanced chips, said it would proceed with the expansion for other companies.