Telephones, computers, electronic equipment and automobiles – today nothing is complete without complex electronics, or various microchips (semiconductors) and microchips, and in this field Taiwan plays a huge role globally – the island nation is the largest semiconductor supplier in the world. world. Not only Western, but also Chinese manufacturers depend on Taiwanese electronics. For many, this suggests that war on Taiwan is impossible, while others, on the contrary, see it as another factor Beijing makes the idea of state subservience particularly attractive.
On how the war in Ukraine raises the question of Taiwan’s security amid growing threats from Beijing, we wrote in the first report from Taiwan here.
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“Taiwan is the best semiconductor maker in the world,” says Min Wu, founder and CEO of Macronix International (pictured below). The 74-year-old, whose family moved from China to Taiwan during the civil war when Min was just a few months old , pointed to several layers of glass would represent the complex circuitry of a memory chip.The chip itself is only 1.2 x 1.7 millimeters in size and looks like a tiny dot on the medium.
