Tuesday, April 27, 2010

"Where is Taiwan's Silicon Valley?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley
Silicon valley is a region in northern California where large offices and the headquarters of several high tech companies are located. It is called the silicon valley because of the many silicon chip makers that moved to the area in the 1970s and 1980s.


Since Taiwan has many high tech companies I was wondering if their was an area similar to Silicon valley in Taiwan. I found an article that calls Hsinchu "Taiwan's Silicon valley".http://www.chinapost.com.tw/business/asia-taiwan/2010/04/06/251385/Chip-sales.htm
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, the world's largest made-to-order chipmaker has a large development and research center in Hsinchu. I walked around Neihu one day and was surprised by all the modern buildings with space in between the buildings. Has that suburb become the high-tech center of Taipei? Is there any other cities that have become a center for high-tech companies?




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