Taiwan's rise as chip design hub threatens U.S. dominance

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U.S. companies have dominated chip design even as they have outsourced fabrication. Now Taiwanese players are starting to encroach on this turf.

YU NAKAMURA and HIDEAKI RYUGEN, Nikkei staff writersApril 28, 2022 02:17 JST | Taiwan

TAIPEI -- Taiwan, long known as a global leader in semiconductor fabrication, is starting to make inroads upstream into design as well, going up against American companies that had seen the island mainly as a manufacturing hub.

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