Page 9 - Communication

Potential Investment and

Collaboration Opportunities

in Taiwan

Leveraging Taiwanese Industry
1 Clusters to Invest in Technological

R&D and High-end Manufacturing

Taiwan's communications companies have both manufacturing and
global logistics capabilities. Their strengths include networking IC, parts and
components, touch panels, and system integration. The industrial chain is
relatively complete. Therefore, Taiwan's complete communications industrial
cluster can improve the performance of R&D centers and manufacturing bases
established by foreign companies in Taiwan. In upstream base components for
example, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. (TSMC) has partnered
with leading IC vendors such as Qualcomm and Ericsson to develop and
produce 5G IC on an OEM basis. Taiwan's MediaTek has now launched the M70
5G Modem IC and is working on 5G System-on-Chip (SoC) products that are
compatible with both Sub-6 GHz and millimetric bands. WIN, Wha Yu, Universal
Microwave Technology (UMT), Advanced Wireless Semiconductor (AWSC)
and other companies are working on power amplifiers, antennae and radio-
frequency components. In the midstream, Taiwanese manufacturers are working
on networking and hardware infrastructure (switches, routers, micro-cells,
consumer premise equipment (CPE) and set top boxes (STB)). For downstream
end-user applications, Quanta, Advantech and Gigabyte are developing virtual
platform servers; Askey, WNC, Jorjin, and HTC are developing wearable devices.
In the future, foreign companies can invest in business opportunities offered by
Taiwan's communications industry through collaborative R&D and technology
transfers.

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