Taiwan is currently the world's largest silicon chip production region, including TSMC, Mediatek and other chip fountain-plants are located in Taiwan, with a strong high-end chip production capacity.
The development of the chip industry has gone through different stages, the earliest by the United States research and development, and the design and production capacity has been in an advanced position, later, due to the rise of the Japanese semiconductor industry, especially the Nikon lithography machine on the line, to solve more problems of the previous generation of lithography machine, the global industry focus from the United States to Japan. Subsequently, in order to suppress the development of the Japanese semiconductor industry, the United States supported the development of chip technology in South Korea and Taiwan in Asia, representing companies including: Samsung, TSMC, etc., although more than Japan, TSMC has become the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer.