Expand into the United States without leaving Taiwan. Purdue is your American base.
Taiwan's government is encouraging semiconductor expansion into America, and Purdue is on the shortlist.
Taiwanese capital is flowing to the United States and Taiwan's own Ministry of Economic Affairs has named Purdue Research Park in Indiana as a base worth assessing.
Four reasons semiconductor companies are choosing Purdue.
Purdue University runs one of the largest and highest-ranked engineering colleges in the country, ranked No. 4 in the U.S. for graduate engineering and No. 2 among all public universities (U.S. News, 2026). Purdue University graduates more engineers than any university in America, and its electrical and computer engineering programs, the heart of chip design, both rank in the national top 10. In 2022, Purdue launched the nation's first comprehensive Semiconductor Degrees Program, built specifically to train the workforce your industry runs on.
Indiana sits at the crossroads of the country's major interstates, putting your equipment, materials, and finished product within a one-day drive of a large share of the North American market. For a supply chain that can't afford delays, a central location beats a coastal one.
Semiconductor operations need land, power, and above all water, the very resources other locations are running short of. Indiana offers abundant water, available sites at the Purdue Research Park, competitive power and operating costs, and no bidding war for every acre and every hire. Build at the scale you need, and grow into it.
This isn't a bet on what Indiana might become. SK hynix is investing more than $4 billion to build a facility in West Lafayette, one of the largest economic-development project in state history, and TSMC and MediaTek are already partnered in the region. You'd be joining the Silicon Heartland, not starting it.
Locating at Purdue University means direct access to Purdue University's research, faculty, and graduates.
This isn't an office park with a nice address. Purdue University is one of the finest engineering institutions in the United States, and companies at the Purdue Research Park and Discovery Park District work hand in hand with its faculty and students: recruiting graduates before they leave campus, partnering on research, and building alongside a university that has spent decades turning Indiana into engineering talent. A relationship between Purdue and Taiwan that goes back decades means you're not starting cold.
Indiana is already home to a growing semiconductor ecosystem. TSMC has partnered with Purdue on secured-microelectronics research since 2019, MediaTek chose Purdue's Discovery Park District for a chip-design center, and SK hynix is investing more than $4 billion to build a facility in West Lafayette, one of the largest economic-development project in Indiana history. These partners are turning the region into what's being called the Silicon Heartland.
the nation's first comprehensive Semiconductor Degrees Program
U.S. producer of engineering graduates (by degrees granted annually)
U.S. graduate engineering program, & No. 2 among public universities (U.S. News 2026)
SK hynix plant, one of the largest economic-development projects in Indiana history
drive to a large share of the U.S. population and market
U.S. locations Taiwan's Ministry named for semiconductor investment with Indiana among them.
This isn't about leaving Taiwan, it's about adding a U.S. base, exactly what Taiwan's government is encouraging. Keep your headquarters, R&D and roots at home, and build your American operations at Purdue.
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