The island is well placed to be a leader

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This situation led the Taiwanese government to take hold very early on of these industrial issues, which – whatever one thinks of the metaverse and the emergence of this theme in the public debate – are significant.

In the creation of tomorrow's content The Sino-American overseas chinese in worldwide data trade war and the containment measures adopted in 2020 have strengthened Taiwan's leadership in the manufacture of electronic components, particularly semiconductors, whose strategic nature was revealed by the shortage of chips in the automotive industry that disrupted dozens of factories (including those of Renault and PSA).


The island is also home to leading IT equipment manufacturers (such as HTC, Asus or Acer), and has high-level R&D talent and regulations favorable to the protection of intellectual property. This combination of factors has led American groups such as Microsoft, Google, Qualcomm, Amazon or Nvdia to invest there in recent years in the software, artificial intelligence and cloud computing sectors. While difficulties in recruiting and raising funds have long hampered the development of Taiwanese XR studios and producers, the development of a strategy for the XR ecosystem at the national level, marked in particular by the creation of the Taiwanese Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) in 2019, has reshuffled the cards.