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@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.de
2026-06-02 07:27:27

Happy to share that my article is live: enjoy some #semiconductor industry dynamics in #Vietnam and #Taiwan.
I draw on ethnographic fieldwork at industry fairs in Taipei and Hanoi to make …

One of the images used in the article, a snapshot from the Taipei industry fair where a journalist showed me an image of the (now former) chairman of TSMC, the star of the industry, that was just rushed through the venue.
@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.de
2026-06-26 12:26:27

Back with the Taiwanese colleagues to explore the #semiconductor industry, now in #Dresden. We started with vanished #chip histories, moved to promised silicon futures and will now venture out – a…

A snapshot from an 1980s Robotron machine from the Technische Sammlung Dresden, where we started. It's a grey picture of a grey machine, excitingly boring
Snapshot of the German and Taiwan flags that reside in the middle of a table, snacks nearby
A mural form the city centre that we discussed before our first dinner, a rather controversial large art work that (in GDR times) was introduced for the occasion of the GDR's 20th anniversary; a red flag connecting the 1848 social uprisings in Germany (and Marx/Engels at its heart) with developments merging into and serving socialist propaganda