BBCNEWS BBC News July 13, 2024
An island shaped like a leaf at the Meeting Point of four seas. Between the 1960s and the 1990s, taiwan underwent massive industrialisation in what has become known as the taiwan miracle. Huge tech firms grew, becoming household names asus, htc, acer. At the centre of this was the semiconductor industry, led by a company you have probably never heard of tsmc. It is one of the Largest Semiconductor manufacturers in the world, producing the chips inside some of the best phones, including the iphone 11. It is most likely if you have a smartphone, you have something made by tsmc. And these chips w...