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There were many reasons of Japan’s failure, such as the critical change in currency exchange rate between yuan and dollar, and also the heavy punishments of Fujitsu by United States. However, Japan has recently joined TSMC to form an advanced electronic packaging factory in Japan to maintain its impact. The weaker and weaker presence of England and France is because of the insufficient financial support on semiconductor technology due to socialism. They tended to support rather uniformly the popular needs of society, but did not concentrate on supporting semiconductor technology. Today, to build a Si‐based transistor factory will take 3–5 billion US dollars, so fewer and fewer countries can afford it. Russia is simply poor. Samsung in Korea has had the government’s focused support to do so. TSMC in Taiwan is unique that it takes orders from all over the world to make VLSI devices, so it knows the major trend of the technology. Thus, it can spend the money it earned to keep improving the technology with innovation. For example, the technique of immersion lithography has enabled TSMC to lead the manufacturing of nanoscale semiconductor devices for the past five generations. Now, we are having the 5 nm node of nanotechnology, and 3 nm and 2 nm nodes are coming.