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Taiwan

Taiwan is one of the world’s most important semiconductor manufacturing centres, combining leading-edge foundry capacity, advanced packaging, suppliers, engineering talent and dense industrial infrastructure.

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Why It Matters

Its significance is larger than any single market-share statistic. The concentration of advanced manufacturing capability and accumulated production knowledge around TSMC and the wider Taiwanese ecosystem makes disruption there consequential far beyond the island.

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