Holcomb, Purdue Officers Journey to Taiwan, South Korea for Semiconductor Partnerships

Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb, together with Purdue College Dean of School of Engineering Mark Lundstrom, are amongst those that have arrived in Taiwan on Sunday morning as a part of an financial improvement journey to Asia, which additionally features a go to to South Korea, according to Gov. Holcomb’s office.

The journey to Taiwan follows two latest semiconductor business bulletins in Indiana, together with Taiwan-based MediaTek, which introduced in July the opening of a semiconductor chip design heart in West Lafayette. The corporate says they plan to rent 30 prime engineers and ten graduate scholar interns by 2025.

The go to additionally comes after the latest signing of the federal CHIPS and Science Act. The laws, beforehand identified within the U.S. Senate because the United State Innovation and Competitors Act, was co-sponsored by Senator Todd Younger of Indiana.

I landed in Taipei to kick off an financial improvement journey in Taiwan & South Korea. Indiana’s dwelling to 10 Taiwanese & 12 South Korean companies. This week marks my 2nd journey to South Korea as Governor & I’m proud to be the primary governor to go to Taiwan since earlier than the pandemic.

— Governor Eric Holcomb (@GovHolcomb) August 21, 2022

Lundstrom will return to Indiana after departing Taiwan, and Purdue College president-elect Mung Chiang will be a part of the delegation in Seoul, South Korea.

Indiana is dwelling to greater than 1,050 foreign-owned enterprise institutions, representing greater than 40 international locations and territories — together with 10 from Taiwan and 12 from South Korea.

Gov. Holcomb is the primary U.S. governor to go to Taiwan since 2019 and is the primary Indiana governor to go to Taiwan in 17 years. The price of the journey is being paid by way of non-public donations to the Indiana Financial Growth Basis, in keeping with Gov. Holcomb’s workplace.

“Purdue College is delighted to be invited as a part of the state of Indiana’s delegation led by Governor Holcomb and Secretary Chambers,” mentioned Dr. Chiang. “Boilermakers have long-standing tutorial partnerships with establishments in Taiwan and South Korea, and we stay up for attracting tech corporations and jobs to the onerous tech hall within the Hoosier state.”

Gov. Holcomb’s journey to Taiwan comes a number of weeks after a go to that U.S. Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi made to Taiwan, which created diplomatic tensions between the U.S. and China. Pelosi’s go to to Taiwan reportedly angered China, which has lengthy claimed that Taiwan is a part of its territory.