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Forging Taiwan's Silicon Shield

Planet Money

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The Taiwan Miracle

In the 1980s, Min Wu was on a mission to come home and open one of the earliest semiconductor factories in Taiwan. The effort to bring Taiwanese talent home would ultimately be part of building a critical Silicon shield for Taiwan. Two offices in California maintain data on nearly 3,000 engineers and computer scientists information they make available to Taiwanese talent scouts.

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