However, "compared with the big foreign conglomerates, Taiwan's IC makers are smaller, less vulnerable and can respond more flexibly," says Genda Hu, who worked in the US semiconductor industry for nearly two decades before returning to Taiwan in July this year to take up his appointment as general director of the ERSO.
不過，「和國外的大財團比起來，台灣的積體電路公司規模小、衝擊面也小」，在美國半導體業界工作十多年、今年七月回國接任工研院電子所所長的胡正大表示。