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How Taiwan secured semiconductor supremacy – and why it won’t give it up
Trump has accused Taiwan of ‘taking’ the US chip sector, but Taipei has been at the forefront of the industry for decades, and its future could depend on it
Hsinchu used to be famous for its fishball street snacks, but now it’s referred to as Taiwan’s Silicon Valley, a tech-focused microcosm pipelining workers from school to university and into the world-leading semiconductor industry that is crucial to global supply chains. Taiwan’s dominance of a component which literally powers the world has raised some concerns about the fragility of global supply chains, particularly if China’s leaders were to one day order an invasion or attack. But reporting from inside the Arizona facility has revealed challenges in replicating the Taiwan model, for reasons as diverse as differing approaches to labour rights and demands on workers.
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