International Semi Tech Microsystems
International Semi Tech Microsystems or Semi-Tech Microsystems was a Canadian-based household and consumer products firm in Markham, Ontario. Semi-Tech Corporation's former head offices were at 131 McNabb Street and near Woodbine Avenue and 14th Avenue.
Founded by Chinese-born Hong Kong-Canadian businessman James Ting in 1981, the firm had manufacturing facilities in China. Macau gambling tycoon Stanley Ho was once the firm's Chairman. The firm once traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange. It was renamed Semi-Tech Corporation in 1994 as it diversified into consumer products.
The company had bad bonds and millions of dollars of Canadian shareholders were burned. By late 1999, the company had just $600,000 in cash and unpaid debts of $650 million. It filed for bankruptcy in 2000. Ting was convicted of false accounting on Semi-Tech and its successor Akai Holdings and his other business Singer Corporation.
