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How Can We Improve Our Communications Industry? 李家同 暨南國際大學資管及資工系 A very serious question facing us today. What kind of industries should our country have? Certainly, we cannot afford to have those industries which are competitive because of their low costs due to mainland China. Labor, land and almost everything else are cheaper there. The only industries which we can have are those which have very high technology threshold. So high that our major competitor, mainland China, can hardly compete with us. At the end of the Chin Dynasty, some of our enlightened ancestors started to build factories, nearly all around Shanghai. There are two characteristics of them: For internal use, never for exporting. All turn-key factories. We remained essentially an agricultural country for a long time until 1970’s. Suddenly, we started to export. The ability of exporting is a sign that we are now an industrialized country. We could export for three reasons. 1.Although many factories were still turn-key factories, the technologies required to run these factories were much higher than before. 2.The costs incurred were low as compared with many of our neighboring countries. 3.High quality of our products. For example, we have had a quite successful PC industry for a long time because of the following: 1.We could design and manufacture mother-boards well with low cost. 2.We could quickly design new chip sets after Intel announces a new CPU. 3.We have an IC manufacturing industry which produces the chip sets here with high quality. 4.The costs incurred were relatively low. But, our PC industry now faces sharp competition from the PC industries in mainland China. A mobile phone system diagram. A wireless LAN system diagram. Bad news: As far as I know, for all mobile phones and wireless LAN cards made in Taiwan, all chips inside them are not made in Taiwan. We are at best a system house. Why is it so difficult for us to design chips for mobile phone phones and wireless LAN c