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2 Industrial Clusters

Taiwan is home to the most complete semiconductor industry clusters
and specializations in the world. Once an IC design house completes a product
design, it can be passed to a foundry or IDM (an Integrated Device Manufacturer
provides everything from IC design, manufacturing, packaging, testing, to final
sale) to be produced into semi-finished wafers. After front-end testing, dicing,
and packaging are carried out by a packaging company, a testing company then
performs the back-end testing. Final products that pass testing are supplied to
system vendors through sales channels to be assembled into system products
(see Fig. 2).

Upstream design tool and intellectual property core

Memory Microcomponent Logic IC Analog IC ASIC/ASSP

IC manufacturing equipment IC manufacturing materials

Wafer Foundry Memory manufacturing Silicon wafer Photomask Chemicals Metal target

IC packaging equipment IC package IC packaging material
Gold Lead IC Molding Solder
wire frame substrate Compound Ball
IC testing equipment IC test

Source: 2019 Semiconductor Industry Yearbook, Department of Industrial Technology, Ministry of Economic Affair
Source: 2019 Semiconductor Industry Yearbook, Department of Industrial Technology, Ministry of Economic Affair
Figure 2 The overall structure of Taiwan's semiconductor industry

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