Tim Colpan: Trump is wrong about the disk industry in Taiwan

Donald Trump’s remarks that Taiwan emptied America from the semiconductor industry are not correct. This misunderstanding can negatively affect the future of one of the most important relationships in the world, which eventually leads to the help of China, which works hard to push its technological sector until it is connected. “Taiwan took us to make the electronic chips.” These statements came after the Republican candidate was asked if he would defend Taiwan against China. This is not the first time it has been about the electronic disc industry on the island, but it comes in the midst of the escalating military, commercial and technological competition between the two major powers. In fact, Taiwan represents less than a quarter of the global semiconductor market, late as the United States, but controls more than 90% in the most advanced electronic sliding industry.[i] Currently, the global semiconductor sector must celebrate the wealth of the rocket height of the demand for artificial intelligence. The danger of Trump’s vision The Dutch company Asml Holding, which was manufactured for the most important semiconductor equipment in the world on Wednesday, said reservations for new machines exceed 30%. On Thursday, Taiwan -Taiwan guide manufacturer Taiwan Simkon, Manifactstrag, which controls more than 90% of the productive capacity of advanced chips, increased its expectations for revenue this year. However, the shares of the two companies have decreased over the past few days instead of rising. In addition to Trump’s remark, investors are concerned about the possibility that the current administration, led by Joe Biden, will impose more serious restrictions on China. The White House is considering imposing a foreign product base on the electronic slide sector, which will be applied to foreign products that are even used a small percentage of US technology, according to a report published by “Bloomberg News”. Such a move will be added to a group of current restrictions aimed at reducing the technological advances of China. But Trump’s most comprehensive vision of the United States’ relationship with Taiwan can be much more harmful in the long run than another round of imposing restrictions on exports. In fairness to Trump, this belief that Taipei took the industry from the United States, nothing but a wrong and misunderstanding, but it coincides with the fact that the former president is the highest voice, and can soon return to the White House to act based on this belief. Taiwan’s technological Renaissance is the fact that the seeds of Taiwan technological Renaissance were planted by the US foreign policy dating from 1950, before the invention of semiconductors. At the time, President Harry Truman ordered his administration to pump money into the island’s economy. The United States was also present at the birth of the electronic slide sector in Taiwan. In 1976, Radio Corporation of America (Radio Corporation of America) agreed to license its semiconductor technology to Taiwan for a fee. United Micro Electronics Corp was born of this program, and it was one of the first companies in the world to make its factories available to customers abroad to require discs on request. After a decade, a former US citizen and executive of the Texas Instruments, Maurice Chang, Taiwan erected for the manufacture of semiconductors “Taiwan Simonkone Manifax” (TSMC), as the first company that made electronic chips exclusively for customers abroad. Intel was one of his first customers. Since then, the technological relationship between the United States and Taiwan has become an integral and interactive relationship. In the nineties of the last century, when new electronic chips in the United States were unable to find a local factory to manufacture their products, Taiwan Simonkendic Manifact Corp and United Micro Electronics Corp were ready for help. Giant American semiconductors such as “Qualcomm”, “Inventia” and “Zelanex” would not have found today if it wasn’t for the Taiwan. Taiwan, Allied, has not been a competition for the past twenty years, and with the loss of US businesses, the leadership of technological advances and the expansion of productive capabilities, Taiwanese companies pumped money into research and new operations, and more than $ 250 billion invested in the fabrics designed by Americans. At the same time, Chinese enterprises, the right competitor of America, were accused of stealing technology from Taiwanese and American businesses to support the technological development of that country.[ii]If the risk taken by the Taiwanese companies and their cooperation with US companies, instead of the unbridled competition with them, would not have dominated ‘Qualcomm’ and ‘Broadcast’ in the global communication electronic markets market, and the companies’ Invitia ‘,’ Intel ‘and’ Advands Microdefish did not. If we look at the economic history between Taiwan and the United States as everything except that it is beneficial to both parties, it threatens to destroy one of the most important industrial relations in the world, and opens the door for China to use a rift that is not needed. Instead, regardless of those who occupy it, the White House must understand that Taipei is not a competition, but rather one of the big fans of American technological leadership. Marches [i] The United States is still predominant thanks to companies such as “Invidia”, “Advands Micro Device”, “Qualcomm”, “Intel” and “Apple”, as well as equipment providers and design programs.[ii] An American court found that the company “Fujian Jinhua” was not guilty of theft of “Micron” because the prosecutors did not prove that the defendants were darkened by information limited to property rights. United Micro Electronics Corp has pleaded guilty in an appropriate case.