Taiwan

Overview

Taiwan sits at the centre of the global semiconductor industry: the chips inside most of the world's phones, cars and data centres are manufactured on the island, much of it by one company, TSMC.

That concentration makes Taiwan both an economic engine and a strategic crossroads — the island's output underpins technology supply chains from Silicon Valley to Shenzhen.

On the rise

Every advance in AI makes Taiwan's chipmakers more important — and the island more central to global politics.