Challenges and Prospects: A Forum on the Development of Intelligent Electronics Industry in Taiwan
NPIE program leader Wen-Tsuen Chen addressing the audience.
Director General Tzong-Ming Yen from Hsinchu Science Park addressing the audience.
Forum speech by Senior Advisor to the Office of the President, Li Jia-Tong: The future challenges for the Taiwan semiconductor industry.
Forum speech by Director Stephen Su from ITRI: Using intelligent mobile systems to generate new synergy for the Taiwan semiconductor industry.
From left to right: Director Stephen Su from ITRI, Senior Director of Macronix Michael Wang, NPIE program leader Wen-Tsuen Chen, Fellow Professor Wei Huang from National Chiao Tung University, Advisor to the Ministry of Education Chauchin Su, and NTHU Distinguished Professor Chen-Fu Chien.
Faced with fierce competition from China and the changing trends within electronics industry, the Office of National Program for Intelligent Electronics (NPIE) and the Hsinchu Science Park Administration jointly sponsored a forum---"Challenges for the Intelligent Electronics Industry in Taiwan and Its Development" on June 17th held on NTHU campus.
Co-hosted by the Head of NPIE, Prof. Wen-Tsuen Chen and Director General of Hsinchu Science Park, Mr. Tzong-Ming Yen this forum gathered a group of leading experts on intelligent electronic from the government, universities as well as industrial sectors. Prof. Chia-Tung Lee, Senior Advisor to the Office of the President emphasized that we need to improve our technical standard to successfully meet the challenges coming from across the Strait. Director Stephen Su of the Research Center of Industrial Economics and Knowledge, Industrial Technology Research Institute, on the other hand, advocated that we should focus on cultivating and utilizing our "soft power" so that it will create a more conducive environment for the further development of our S.M.A.R.T. Power.
Other speakers and participants analyzed the current strength and weakness of Taiwan's semiconductor industry from technical as well as human resource perspectives hoping with such a detailed analysis we will be able to gain a clear roadmap for the industry's future development.
Whilst Taiwan has long enjoyed a leading position in the global market of semiconductor industry, China has shown a rapid growth in this field in recent years, particularly in the semiconductor design. Chinese government has adopted various policies to support their IC design companies and they have developed specifications for their own communication systems. Such efforts have increased their competitiveness and threaten the leading role that used to be occupied by the Taiwanese companies. Furthermore, recent innovation of services and products such as iPhone, iPad and could computing presented further challenges for Taiwanese companies which have traditionally focused on the manufacturing of user equipment and components. NPIE's task, then, is to construct a comprehensive platform upon which the talents from industry, universities and government agencies can be integrated to work in a coordinated fashion to meet the challenges from abroad and maintain the momentum of Taiwan's electronic industry.
