新竹 (Xīnzhú): Hsinchu (city and county in northern Taiwan; center of Taiwan's semiconductor industry)

Meanings

1 Hsinchu (city and county in northern Taiwan; center of Taiwan's semiconductor industry)

Characters

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Examples

新竹科学园区是台湾最重要的高科技基地。

Xīnzhú kēxué yuánqū shì Táiwān zuì zhòngyào de gāo kējì jīdì.

Hsinchu Science Park is Taiwan's most important high-tech base.

台积电的总部设在新竹。

Táijīdiàn de zǒngbù shè zài Xīnzhú.

TSMC's headquarters is in Hsinchu.

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culture

Hsinchu Science Park (新竹科学园区), established in 1980, is Taiwan's "Silicon Valley" — home to TSMC (台积电), UMC, MediaTek (联发科) and most of the firms that make Taiwan the world's dominant chip fabricator.

history

The name 新竹 ("new bamboo") replaced the earlier indigenous-derived name 竹堑 in 1878 during the Qing dynasty. Hsinchu is also famous for 米粉 (rice noodles) and strong year-round winds — hence the nickname 风城 ("Windy City").