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Boris Johnson says UK once considered competing with Taiwan in chips, but abandoned plan over tech gap

Bryan Chuang, Taipei; Jingyue Hsiao, DIGITIMES Asia 0

Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Credit: DIGITIMES

During a keynote address at the Ketagalan Forum in Taipei on August 5, former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson revealed that he had contemplated enabling the UK to compete with Taiwan in semiconductor manufacturing as early as 2019. While in office,...

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