U.S. Department of Commerce Officials Closer Zhang Zhongmou

According to foreign reports, mainland China promised to reduce its purchases of semiconductors from Taiwan and South Korea, and to expand its purchases in the United States. This may affect Taiwan's semiconductor industry. However, Ian Steff, deputy assistant minister of the US Department of Commerce in charge of manufacturing, was in Taiwan at the close of the day. Zhang Zhongmou, the chairman of the board, also met with the semiconductor industry in Taiwan to close the meeting. It is understood that he has repeatedly stressed that the Taiwan semiconductor industry is an important ally of the United States. He hopes that the two parties will strengthen and deepen the cooperative relationship; this will give a strong boost to the Taiwan semiconductor industry. needle.

Says Taiwan Semiconductor Industry is an Important Ally

Shi Yien served for nearly a decade at the Semiconductor Industry Association in Washington, DC, and was elected vice president of the Global Policy and Technology Partnership. Participants reported that Shi Yien went to TSMC headquarters to meet for more than two hours and went to a nearby meeting. The Royal Hotel closed talks with members of the Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association (TSIA) and the International Semiconductor Equipment and Materials Industry Association (SEMI). However, due to his late arrival, he disclosed that he had talked with Zhang Zhongmou for a long time and Zhang would give him many comments before he arrived.

Participants pointed out that Shi Yien, who was visiting Taiwan for the first time as an official deputy assistant minister, emphasized that Taiwan’s semiconductor industry has always been highly complementary to the United States. It can be said to be an important US allies and hopes that both sides can have more exchanges and cooperation in the future; he also Concerned about the status of American companies including Taiwan Micron Semiconductor and other companies in Taiwan.

U.S. trust in Taiwan's supply chain far exceeds that of mainland China

Industry experts pointed out that last year, global semiconductor output value was nearly 500 billion U.S. dollars, and the highest number of U.S. companies was more than 200 billion U.S. dollars. However, many IC design company's chips are in wafer manufacturing and packaging tests in TSMC, UMC, ASE, Silicon Products and other supply chains. Many of them are applied in the US defense industry. It is evident that "the United States relies on and trusts Taiwan's supply chain far more than China's."

Deng Maosong, general manager of Etron Technologies, and Huang Yijun, vice president of Realtek Semiconductor, also raised the issue of how to steal Chinese intellectual property (IP) and how to strengthen anti-blocking. Some companies disclosed that due to the interaction between Taiwan's semiconductor industry and the mainland High-quality, the United States attaches great importance to the United States in the Taiwan Association (AIT) two months ago also met with industry representatives in the same place to discuss issues such as Chinese encroachment.

Officials from the Ministry of Economic Affairs confirmed that Shi Yien did visit the Ministry of Economic Affairs on the same day for a short time and exchanged opinions with the Taiwan-US industry for further cooperation. He did not discuss specific issues or industries.