Back in the 2000s, Abian declared he wanted to develop three sectors: memory chips, displays, and phones. All of them were trashed really badly. All of them are making a comeback.
Taiwanese used a pun, 慘業, to refer to them.
Last week Nanya (memory chips) announced they’re building a new plant, hiring 2,000 people, and using the most advanced process for DRAM (10 nm). Samsung has been so focused on its foundry business it’s underinvesting in memory, and lost its technological lead to Micron (1/3 of whose physical assets are in Taiwan, and has licensed their tech to Nanya).
Playnitride is developing the leading display technology (Micro-LED), which they will license to Samsung for TVs. But as some mentioned here, TV prices are going down, but demand for other displays (like monitors or in the TESLA) are shooting through the roof,
HTC’s demise may have been a blessing in disguise. After Google bought out their engineers and patents, they probably said, well, if we’re designing Pixel phones here, we might as well move our entire hardware design (Nest, Chromebook) over.
Can still see its buildings while driving along I-84.
Interesting history of Micron:
https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/business/article220062090.html
Do you who is making this? Looks like a Mini-LED is here and it’s a winner.
You’ll like this one
They own 6% of TSMC.
They should sell some and clean up the place.
They already did. They started with 48%.
They should sell more and use the funds specifically for environmental protection, clean up the air and water, fixing up the shitty pavements.