Taiwan’s Semiconductor Industry of Outflow of ：A Focal Study of IC Foundries

• Main Author: 呂哲豪
• Other Authors: 蘇偉業
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2004
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/50035340982490857346

碩士 === 義守大學 === 管理科學研究所 === 92 === Recently, the economy of Mainland China has been developing rapidly. Under the preferential policies and tax concessions offered by the government, the building of 8” wafer fabs is being encouraged. This triggered social disputes in Taiwan over whether the government should allow domestic firms to set up wafer fabs in Mainland China. At last, the government approved it governed by the policy principle of “effective management” in March 2002. This study attempts to probe the impact of outflow of wafer fabs upon its upstream and downstream firms, and discuss what role the government should play in this case. As the outflow remains at the preliminary stage, this study adopts an exploitative approach and a qualitative research method － mainly in-depth interviews－ focusing upon the upstream and downstream firms of the wafer fab in the semi-conductor industry, to exploit the impact of the outflow of wafer fabs. The findings of the study are that the investment strategy of domestic wafer fab would have much impact upon the downstream firms. However, in the short run, the firms would not move their hub into Mainland China, because the semi-conductor industry there is not ripe yet. Why the firms compete to invest in Mainland China is to take a niche in the big market in advance. In the long run, the firms will turn Mainland China into a manufacturing center; while Taiwan concentrates upon research and development （R&D）, technology upgrading, developing new production processes, maintaining high yield rates and improving productivity. The government should encourage the industry to engage in the R&D, setting up R&D center. Taiwan should make profits not only from OEM, but also from product design and technology upgrading. It should try to lure more foreign investment and encourage foreign investors to set up research centers in Taiwan that can facilitate the industrial upgrading and strengthen Taiwan’s competitive advantage. To maintain the advantage of the semi-conductor industry of Taiwan, not only the government should play a part, inter-corporation collaboration should play another one. Thus it would not hit the domestic semi-conductor industry, even though the counterpart in Mainland China is rapidly catching up. At the same time, Taiwan’s semi-conductor firms can expand their business sphere into Mainland China and sustaining a competitive advantage of Taiwan’s semi-conductor industry in the world.