Episode Details

The Detail puts on a rabbit suit and gets special access to the incubators of Taiwan's semiconductor industry

Inside Taiwan's booming semiconductor sector, rabbit suits, sanitising air showers and transistors smaller than a speck of dust

Guests:

• Brian Travers - CEO of Christchurch's Syft Technologies
• Yuyi Chang - Electronic Engineering student
• Dr Sun-Zen Chen - Tsing Hua University researcher
• Zse-hong Tsai - Taiwan AI Centre for Excellence head
• Professor Yung-jen Hsu - Centre for Excellence chair
• Professor Tien-Wang Tsaur - Economist

Learn more by reading these two articles:

• The world’s biggest chipmaker needs to move beyond Taiwan
• Taiwan Weaponizes Chip Sector to Deter China on World Stage

References:

• Space technology and Taiwan's strategic objectives

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