These actions are the same for three centuriesIts performance in Europe are clearly in declineAs GM inventor of the shark fins ferré a strange fishIn 2001 he will meet with Cecile Brossard all in combining a large number of waysAnd it will last between 24 and 36 monthsThis year surely and for much of next yearBut the situation has changed in two yearsOn paper Washington scrupulously on its promisesWe can just identify it by different meansWorld's leading manufacturer of motherboards for PC, portable computers, personal assistants or LCD monitors, on behalf of brands (Apple, Dell, HO, Sony, IBM, Lenovo...), Taiwan is beaten in turn by the decline in margins of high technology products and outsourcing to low labour cost countries. Two years of the end of the development plan launched in 2002 by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the nationalist Island industry seems poised to succeed his transfer to products with high added value and new areas such as biotechnology or digital content, designated as future main growth engines.
In setting the bar symbolic 1,000 billion Taiwanese dollars (24 billion euros) as objective to semiconductor and flat panel industries, Government multiplies efforts towards local and international firms. "On the first eight months of 2006 alone, the total amount of foreign investments in Taiwan reached US $ 8.8 billion, is a quasi-doublement from the same period last year", emphasized Chen Ruey-long, Minister of Economic Affairs of Taiwan, inaugurating the 2006 edition of the Taiwan Business Alliance Conference in Taipei. The bar of the 10 billion should be reached on the year, according to him.
A bridge to Asia
Introducing the island as "the connection to Asia", he said that 65 of its exports are directed to other markets in the region, and its companies are first or second foreign investors in Malaysia, the Viet Nam and Thailand. In addition to tax incentives, financing facilities, or the availability of qualified personnel, the Taiwanese Government proposes to do office financial partner, taking shareholdings up to 20 of the capital of the companies on the island.
Third world manufacturer of semiconductors with more than 14 of the total production of chips, the country launched the model of the "Foundry", the manufacture of circuits integrated according to the specifications of the client. TSMC and UMC, numbers one and two global domain, generate them only 70 of the activity of the sector at the international level, with major clients the computer industry and related industries. Beyond outsourcing, these pioneers are moving more and more towards services higher added value, as the design of circuits integrated or complementary such encapsulation or the testing of integrated circuits.
In the area of flat, booming with explosive global demand, the Taiwanese industry is credited by the research company DisplaySearch of the rank of world's leading manufacturer of tile liquid crystal, in terms of surface produced. In the second quarter, it controlled more than 51 of deliveries of panels LCD than 25 cm in length, used in television and in public view, and 20 of the small screens for computer monitors and mobile devices. Facing the Korean Giants Samsung and LG.Philips LCD, the Taiwanese in the Optronics (AUO) and Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) seek to retain their advantage on the large screens while now a profitability sometimes distorted by price declines. They also benefit from the "cluster effect" which is to bring together in a same industrial park of base or related manufacturers such as Corning Glass, 3 m and DuPont.
