The Trump administration of US President promotes "US manufacturing", and Texas has quickly become a new town in global technology and manufacturing, attracting code-based investments such as Global Crystals and Taiwan Electronics Fifth Brothers. However, Taiwan manufacturers believe that high prices and salary are a fierce challenge for investment in the United States. Some semiconductors also analyzed that Taiwanese businessmen who invest in the United States "have to turn this into an American company." If human resources want to adjust it from Taiwan, it is unrealistic.

Since the outbreak of the US-China trade war, under the trend of China +1, Taiwan's factory has moved its production base to Mexico to serve North American market customers nearby. However, with Trump 2.0 vigorously promoting the return of manufacturing industry and imposing high taxes on imported products from other countries. In addition, American customers require local content, more and more Taiwan manufacturers have chosen to use Texas as the point to deploy the US market.

Trump pushes US manufacturing and Texas's four major advantages come out

President of the North American Taiwan Business Council President Chen Shixiu accepted the Central News Agency's visit to the Central News Agency and said that Texas is divided into three metropolitan areas, including Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth Metropolitan and Austin San Antonio. Currently, Taiwan factories are mainly distributed in Houston and Dallas; the largest investment cases in recent days have come from Global Crystals, and Taiwan factories such as Texas and Systems have also invested in codes, indicating that the Texas area is highly valued by Taiwan manufacturers.

Chen Shixiu said that Dalas has a diverse industry, covering high-tech, finance, aviation and new energy industries such as electric vehicles. Texas Warehouse's headquarters is also in Dalas. Taiwan factories are more likely to find supply chains. In addition, the tax exemption advantages of the US, Canada and Mexico free trade agreement, Dalas is located at the center of its geographical location. "Dras may catch up quickly and attract more Taiwanese factories."

Texas official data shows that over the past 10 years, Taiwan has announced 15 investment plans in Texas, with a total amount of nearly US$11.2 billion, creating a total of 3,550 job opportunities.

Texas not only attracts Dunghai, Renbao, Guangda, Chengkai and Hebei Electronics fifth brothers. Chen Shixiu revealed that large screws, plastic injection molding factories, etc. are also interested in investing in Texas, mainly because Texas has four major advantages, including cheap land costs, convenient transportation, and abundant labor in Texas. More importantly, enterprises and individuals in Texas do not need to pay for income tax; the consumption standard is also relatively low, and food, clothing, housing and transportation are cheaper than those in the East and West sides of the United States.

AI and space economy are both in Texas. Taiwan's factory is in new competition

Telecom US President Wu Zongyan said that the United States is the leader of technology, integrating important customers such as Google, Amazon and Netflix. In recent years, the demand for data centers has been booming. Not only has the AI ​​war, it has also cooperated with Texas companies such as Lonestar and Intuitive Machine to develop the first data center to go to space.

Wu Zongye said that Texas Houston is a major development town for space industry. Compared with the risks of earth politics and other risks, space can be used as an extremely safe backup plan and store confidential information. Group upgrades existing commercial solid-state hard drives (SSDs), through radiation and storing tests, which successfully meet the conditions of space environment, and it is very difficult for Taiwan to take on the most advanced space mission in the United States.

Large factories such as Tesla, Ultramicro, HP and DELL are gathered in Texas, and the space industry chain is complete. Wu Zongyan said that as a technology-based town, Texas will have industry and talent clusters in the future. Although the US tax policy has added uncertainty in corporate operations, it is still optimistic about the potential for Taiwan and the United States to cooperate with commercial machines such as space, AI and data centers.

In addition, the Star Door Project, jointly jointly developed by Open AI, Oracle and Software, will be launched in Texas. Hui Yide, general manager of Huacheng Electric, said that "there is power behind the computing power." The power demand for AI data centers is 7 to 8 times. In addition, the data center is set close to that of the power generator, and the transformer needs to be customized. The shipment delivery time of Huacheng Electric is nearly 1 times faster than that of European factories, and successfully won the order of Star Door.

Dongyuan Electric has been deeply engaged in Texas for 30 years. Wang Rongbang, president of the Motor Systems and Automation Industry Group, said that Texas has rich oil and natural gas resources. Due to the demand of ESG, Texas Petrochemical Industry and Taiwan's investment in the United States, Dongyuan serves customers including petrochemical, hydrogen production, carbon capture and electronic high-tech manufacturers. Texas Factory focuses on the production of highly customized products such as medium and high-voltage motors and variable frequency appliances, meeting customers' demand for US manufacturing and 100% local production.

Texas is full of energy, and high prices and salary increase have become investment challenges

According to data, Texas's semiconductor manufacturing capacity accounts for 36% of the overall U.S., and the number of semiconductor-related population alone is as high as 47,000. Adriana Cruz, president of the Texas Economic Development and Tourism Bureau, said that Texas passed the Texas chip bill last year to increase efforts to build a localized semiconductor supply chain. In the past six years, the number of semiconductor manufacturers in Texas has reached 44%.

Wang Rongbang said that Texas has low taxes, and the supply of outstanding college graduates is sufficient, which is not inferior to California. Texas prices are also lower than those in California. In recent years, there have been more and more employees in Texas factories. However, the investment trend has increased in the past five years, and the number of airport workers has grown by 2 to 3 times. Salary, price standards and housing taxes have also increased, and taxes are needed to be paid higher than before. "Some Taiwanese businessmen have also reported that Texas' salary is about to catch up with California."

He said that Americans value family life and do not like a demand-based and top-down management model. Overtime work must be communicated in advance. When a manufacturer encounters the situation where overtime is needed, he should first find the employees and provide bonuses and other reasons, so that the employees should be willing to work overtime. "There is no standard for overtime, and they must communicate in advance." However, it cannot happen too many times. Otherwise, the employees will respond and believe that the company's manpower is not enough. They should be sufficient manpower, rather than forcing the employees to work overtime..

Gao Yongzhong, chairman of the compound semiconductor factory Intele, shared that the investment and labor costs in the United States must be higher than those in Taiwan, and the progress of construction will be slower. Taiwanese businessmen must be prepared to invest well in the United States and set their own conditions. It is recommended that Taiwanese businessmen who go to the United States invest "make this one into an American company." If all human resources want to be adjusted from Taiwan, it is unrealistic.