Taiwan’s greatest export isn’t chips. It’s capability.
Message
Semiconductors became the most visible expression of that capability.
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Readers following the global race to build chip industries, who want to know where lasting advantage comes from.
Pillars
Institutions
Learning
Patience
A bridge between government, universities and industry
- Ideas move beyond the laboratory
- Into the marketplace
- Engineering talent for the decades ahead
It acquired the ability to learn
- Not just technology
- Build on what others had already discovered
- Make it its own
Invest before the opportunity is obvious
- Long before the returns are certain
- Adapt, whatever the future brings
- Value that becomes obvious years later