Why Is AI Scaling So Fast That the World Keeps Turning Back to Taiwan?

Q1: Why is Taiwan central in today’s AI acceleration
AI demand is rising faster than global capacity growth. Taiwan is the only manufacturing ecosystem that can deliver advanced chips, packaging and AI servers at the required speed and scale. The capacity for technologies like CoWoS remains almost fully booked as global firms rush to secure supply.

Q2: Why does the world depend on Taiwan for supply chain stability
AI demand exposes bottlenecks across global supply chains. Taiwan provides concentrated know how in fabrication, packaging, server assembly and components. This concentration makes the region a stabilizing force when trade policy shifts or when demand surges faster than infrastructure can adapt. Consistent performance reinforces Taiwan as the reference point for global AI manufacturing.

Q3: What remains Taiwan’s biggest challenge
The Global AI Index shows Taiwan scoring high on infrastructure and strategy but lower on talent depth and startup scale. Programs such as the technician apprenticeship training for new fabs indicate a deliberate effort to build the human capacity needed to sustain long term AI growth.

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