Inside Taiwan and Germany’s Next Chip Alliance
Dresden, one of Germany’s oldest cities, has become a strategic semiconductor foothold for TSMC after it selected the city for its European expansion. With the firm’s Dresden fab set to start production in 2027, how will the city evolve into a new frontier for chip innovation, and how are residents, industry experts and policymakers interpreting the shift? In this episode of Zoom In Zoom Out, Dresden Mayor Dirk Hilbert and TSRI and National Institutes of Applied Research, Director General Chien-Nan Liu join Alec Macdonald and Isabel Wang to explore how TSMC is reshaping Europe’s tech landscape.















