Taiwan has to date played an important role in global semiconductor and IT hardware manufacturing, but its software industry has never really got off the ground. In contrast, even before the concept of BRICs was widely acknowledged (embodying the four strongest developing nations of Brazil, Russia, India and China), India had already quietly established a reputation as one of the world's biggest international software subcontracting centers.
作為全世界半導體代工產業和資訊硬體製造業大國，台灣軟體產業並不發達；相對的，早在「金磚四國」還未喊的震天價響前，印度早已悄悄建立世界上最大的軟體代工國稱號。