National Technology Adviser Dave Smith is to lead 34 British semiconductor business representatives to this year’s Semicon Taiwan trade show, to be held from Wednesday to Friday next week, the UK representative office to Taiwan said yesterday.
“I am delighted to be returning to Taiwan to lead the UK delegation, to continue our semiconductor discussions based on the relationships built and trust,” Smith was quoted as saying in a statement issued by the British Office Taipei.
Smith also led a British business delegation to Taiwan for last year’s Semicon Taiwan event.
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“The UK’s robust R&D [research and development] capabilities and commercial innovation are a natural match for Taiwan’s excellence in semiconductor manufacturing. Together, we can shape the future of global technology,” Smith added.
Meanwhile, British Representative to Taiwan Ruth Bradley-Jones said she looks forward to attending Semicon Taiwan. It would be her first time attending the event since taking office in February.
The UK and Taiwan “are aligned in our values, goals and ambitions, and we have highly complementary strengths, with the UK offering innovation, R&D and scalable ideas, and Taiwan providing large-scale manufacturing and global supply chain capabilities,” she said.
“We are committed to building partnerships with Taiwan that are robust, productive and enduring,” she said.
The British business delegation includes companies specializing in photonics, quantum, memory, chip design, compound semiconductors and advanced packaging, among other areas.
The group is larger than its delegations in 2023 and last year, the office said.
While in Taiwan, the delegation is to visit Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (台積電), the world’s largest contract chipmaker, United Microelectronics Corp (聯電) and Powertech Technology Inc (力成).
The British Office Taipei is also to sign a memorandum of understanding with Taiwan’s representative office in the UK on joint semiconductor development and take part in the third UK-Taiwan Semiconductor Dialogue in Taipei during the visit, it added.
Semicon Taiwan is to be held at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center. It would bring together more than 1,200 semiconductor and technology companies, and feature more than 4,100 booths.
More than 100,000 industry professionals are expected to attend, making it one of the world’s most influential semiconductor events, the event’s organizers said on its Web site.
