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Entrepreneurship-driven growth in the integrated circuit design industry

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Through a combination of talent cultivation and innovative research and development, the integrated circuit design industry in Taiwan now plays a central role in global electronics.

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Fig. 1: The evolution of the global and Taiwanese IC industry.
Fig. 2: The growth of the Taiwanese IC design industry.
Fig. 3: Yearly global device shipments for PCs, feature phones and smartphones.

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I thank the chairman of MediaTek, M.-K. Tsai for his perspectives on the history of the Taiwanese IC design industry, and H. Renauld for his help with the manuscript.

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