The 2025 Energy Taiwan and Net-Zero Taiwan trade show will be held starting October 29, featuring more than 450 companies from home and abroad, including exhibitors from the UK, Belgium, Denmark, and the Netherlands, showcasing the latest wind power technologies. Given that Taiwan produces 90% of the world’s advanced semiconductors, energy autonomy is crucial for supply chain resilience.

Taiwan’s printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturers and outsourcing semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) providers are positioned for significant growth driven by artificial intelligence (AI), 5G/6G communications, and automotive electronics. However, they face challenges, including supply chain vulnerabilities, talent shortages, and a lack of unified packaging standards. Devan Iyer, CSO for Advanced Electronic Packaging at the Global Electronics Association, outlined these issues and opportunities in an exclusive interview with DIGITIMES.

Over the past decade, China’s tech sector has surged across chip design, foundry, and packaging. Yet beneath the slogan of “technological self-reliance”, two corporate storms have laid bare the contradictions between global ambition and domestic control, exposing the limits of China’s bid to lead the semiconductor world on its own terms.