In response to China-based Tsinghua Unigroup's interest in combining its two subsidiary IC designers with Taiwan-based MediaTek, Acer founder Stan Shih said that China-based investment in Taiwan-based IC design houses is feasible as long as the investment is balanced based on appropriate stake ratios and constraining conditions such as protecting intellectual properties.
Shih used Japan as an example and pointed out that the Japan government has over protected local enterprises, which has caused the enterprises to lack competitiveness, and he believes an industry should have both competition and cooperation in order to create value.
Taiwan's PC and semiconductor industries have gone through multiple stages of cooperation and competition to gradually establish their foundations, Shih noted.
