EDITORIAL: Taiwan’s window of opportunityTaiwan’s export-oriented economy is booming amid strong global demand for artificial intelligence (AI) applications, the National Development Council (NDC) said on Tuesday. To date, much of Taiwan’s AI-related economic growth has taken the form of semiconductor exports, with Taiwanese chips powering servers that deliver AI services worldwide. AI cannot function without semiconductors, but semiconductors alone do not generate the productivity, automation and innovation that AI enables. A strategic shift toward AI hardware and software systems therefore does not diminish the importance of Taiwan’s semiconductor sector — it reinforces it. Developing AI systems would not only strengthen Taiwan’s economic resilience at a time of growing pressure on globalization, but also deepen its indispensability within global supply chains.

Source: Taipei Times January 28, 2026 16:27 UTC