The Silicon Island-A Blessing in Disguise?A Place where Semiconductors & Geopolitics meet (電子書)

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Never count on a handful of aces up your sleeve, a game-changer may just turn your longstanding advantage into a future liability.

Semiconductors and the supply chains are Taiwan’s most significant strategic assets to engage with the international community. In retrospect, Taiwan’s semiconductor industry led by industry leaders like Morris Chang and Ming-Kai Tsai, had achieved a global leading position. Corporate strategies employed by Taiwan’s representative rivals as Intel, U.S. and Samsung, Korea all feed into their distinct future development.
Semiconductors are ubiquitous in an era of Internet of Things. Ironically though, is Taiwan’s semiconductor industry coming as the most coveted possession or Taiwan’s sacred mountain? The rapid changes of global status have upended global geopolitics, which can far outweigh the impact on enterprises in terms of technological innovation and business reform. Bearing the brunt amid the clash of interests between the U.S. and China, Taiwan again is sensing the strong gunpowder smell. In the face of Japan-Korea coopetition, coupled with ASEAN and South Asian emerging players breathing down the neck, Taiwan needs to mull it over and address these austere yet meaningful challenges to maintain its cutting-edge in the semiconductor industry.
How would Taiwan create a back-to-back miracle against the backdrop of risks posed by geopolitics?

Colley Hwang
As founder of DIGITIMES, Colley Hwang is an ICT industry analyst as well as a seasoned cross-sector innovator and industry expert with 37 years of experience under his belt. Having witnessed over the significant changes of the ICT world – from the PC era to the age of mobile communication & IoT, Hwang has been invited to deliver lectures for
Taiwan’s prestigious universities and assume a keynote speaker in major global events. He is currently a member of the board of directors of Monte Jade Science & Technology Association of Taiwan and China Aviation Development Foundation.

Eric Huang •BA, Department of Control Engineering, National Chiao-Tung University •MS, Department of Electrical, Computer & Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA •Ph.D candidate, Department of International Business, National Taiwan University Currently as Vice President to Business Development Center of DIGITIMES, leading an analysts team on Asian supply chain and operating DIGITIMES English website “DIGITIMES Asia”, Eric Huang worked for a leading foundry as an engineer and spearheaded a myriad of projects for the public sector and well-known enterprises.