[Japan semiconductor wiring company sets up new plant in Taiwan] Japan’s Tanaka Denshi Kogyo (Tanaka), a subsidiary of Tanaka Holding, is planning to build a new factory in Taiwan’s southern city of Kaohsiung. The Tanaka plant should be fully operational within the first half of next year, according to an EET Asia report. The plant will make high-performance palladium-coated copper wires (PCC wires), a common component in computing. PCC wires connect semiconductors to lead electrodes in various devices. Previously, bonding wires were typically made of gold. However, in recent years with the explosion in the variety of chip-based gadgets, PCC…