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Taiwan's IC design industry has reached a critical crossroads, with an unclear development direction, worsening talent shortage, confusing government policies, and shrinking academic research momentum all requiring cooperation from all sectors to overcome. But in terms of a feasible development direction, datacenter server processors and HPC (high-performance computing) chips are believed to provide the most promising future for Taiwan IC designers, according to Eric Huang, vice president of DIGITIMES and host of the IC Design Industrial Policy...

"When I did my research at Stanford University, the cleanroom was mainly staffed by those from East Asia and India," recalled Dr. Chih-Huang Lai, Vice Dean of the College of Semiconductor Research under Taiwan's National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) - long a hub of Taiwan's IC talent cultivation. "In the foreseeable future, we might no longer see Taiwanese in Taiwan's own cleanrooms as well," Lai lamented.

Semiconductor manufacturing is one of the dominant sources of carbon emissions. Vast amounts of power are required to manufacture the chips. Most discussion about the methods to limit global warming focuses on reducing the emission of greenhouse gas (GHG). How do leading chip makers boost their sustainability and minimize the climate impact at the same time?

As the US rallies Japan and the Netherlands to tighten up semiconductor export controls against China, the world has been trying to estimate the extent of damage done to the Chinese semiconductor industry, especially to China's leading foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC)

As India focuses on establishing its own semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem, there is growing optimism about...