But Taiwan's semiconductor industry differs from those of Japan and South Korea, whose domestic production capacity exceeds domestic demand. Although Taiwan's IC production capacity expanded sharply last year to reach 2.7 % of the global supply, it still remained far below the 6.5 % of global supply consumed by Taiwan's market.
和日本、韓國「國內產能大於國內需求」模式不同的是，去年台灣積體電路雖然產能大增，達到全球供應量的百分之二．七，依舊遠不及百分之六．五的市場耗用量。