Taipei, Dec 11, 2025 (AFP) - Taiwan to keep production of 'most advanced' chips at home: deputy FM

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2025-12-11

Taiwan plans to keep making the "most advanced" chips on home soil and remain "indispensable" to the global semiconductor industry, the deputy foreign minister told AFP, despite intense Chinese military pressure. The democratic island makes more than half of the world's chips, and nearly all of the most advanced ones, that power everything from smartphones to AI data centres. Its dominance of the industry has long been seen as a "silicon shield"......

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