Taiwan’s chip industry depends on • Table.Briefings

Taiwan’s chip industry wants to produce more semiconductor equipment themselves. This would allow them to continue supplying Chinese companies affected by US sanctions. After all, despite all political differences, China is a big growth market. But Taiwan is still far from being on the safe side. They are balancing the difficult dependence on both China and the US, but it remains true.

Taiwan’s chip industry has signed an agreement to establish its own semiconductor equipment industry. The initiative by Taiwanese companies is a reaction to Washington’s sanctions on China by former President Donald Trump in May 2020. Accordingly, anyone using US technologies, software, or even equipment in semiconductor production was no longer allowed to supply certain Chinese companies such as Huawei.

Taiwan’s chip industry depends on China despite everything

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