Made In Asia: Workers assemble DVD player components [top left] at a factory in China's eastern province of Jiangsu. Devices built here are exported and sold at Wal-Mart, among other places. South Korea's Hyundai Motor Co. [top right] produced its first car just three decades ago, but earlier this year J.D. Power and Associates rated its cars as the world's most reliable. In a clean room at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. [bottom left], technicians inspect wafer quality. The world's largest contract chip maker, TSMC will open its first wafer fab in China later this year. At an NEC factory in Saitama, Japan, a worker assembles cellphones [bottom right].