STSIP Administration Director-General Tai Chien still remembers a time, in 2000, when STSIP was built upon 15 12-inch silicon wafer factories, and industrialists would frequently invest hundreds of billions of dollars.
南管局局長戴謙還記得，民國八十九年間，南科一度號稱將有十五座十二吋晶圓廠在此生根，業者投資動輒以千億計。