That year, when President Chen Shui-bian took office, Taiwan Semiconductor Corporation (TSMC) chairman Morris Chang gave him the gift of the company's first 12-inch silicon wafer, produced there, raising the semiconductor industry to fever-pitch.
當年陳水扁總統前來視察時，台積電董事長張忠謀以在此產出的台灣第一片十二吋晶圓作為贈禮，更將半導體產業的熱度炒到最高點。