While Taiwan has the world's fifth-largest semiconductor industry, that industry's focus is on foundry work; that is, building chips to a designer's specifications. In their efforts to achieve the highest levels of quality and efficiency, Taiwan Semiconductor and United Microelectronics often simply replicate foreign production lines and equipment, effectively locking out local machine tools makers.
台灣半導體雖然號稱全球第 5 大，但以晶圓代工為主，台積電、聯電為求最高品質和效率，通常就直接複製國外的生產線和設備，讓國內的精機業者無用武之地，而引為憾事。