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TAIPEI, Oct 1 Asia Pulse - Taiwan is planning to invest NT$10 billion (US$290 million) over the next nine years to build the island into a major global silicon-IC design center, industrial sources said Sunday.
The flagship program, dubbed the Si-Soft Project, was formally launched in early September with the endorsement of the government and the private high-technology manufacturing sector.
Si-Soft Project is aimed at building Taiwan into the world's center of silicon related industries, whose total production value is expected to reach NT$10 trillion (US$286 billion) in 10 years and supply 80 percent of the world's needs for silicon products and related manufacturing, said Tsai Ching-yen, a minister-without-portfolio in charge of science-technology development and related affairs.
At a discussion held Saturday, Tsai said the Central Personnel Administration has decided to add 85 openings for lecturers in domestic universities and colleges, particularly in the fields of system design, telecommunications and optoelectronics, to beef up Taiwan's cradle of nurturing hi-tech talent and workforce.
In addition, Tsai said, one of the three locations -- the Philips plant in the Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park, which has recently emptied due to the closure of some Philips operations in Taiwan, the Espire Industrial Park run and owned by the Acer Group, and the Nankang Software Processing Zone -- will ...