If you look around Silicon Valley in California, engineers of Chinese extraction are an influential group, "observes ERSO general director Genda Hu. Over the last few years there has been a constant stream of highly educated people" deserting with their weapons "--experience and skills--and returning to Taiwan, and this has provided the greatest impetus to Taiwan's semiconductor industry.
放眼加州矽谷，華裔工程師是舉足輕重的群體」，電子所所長胡正大指出，這幾年「帶槍投靠」（有經驗、有技術）的歸國學人絡繹於途，成為台灣積體電路最大的推進動力。