Taiwan is the world’s largest producer of motherboards, monitors and modems. In 1994, it turned out 7.4 million motherboards – the main printed circuit boards in computers – while producing 12.7 million monitors domestically and another 4 million in Taiwanese factories abroad. It holds a 55% global market share in modems. But it is the manner in which it has achieved this status that is as impressive as the numbers themselves.
Computers and consumer electronics items traditionally have been made by large, vertically integrated conglomerates that produce most of the component parts in-house.
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