A list of key technologies is to be expanded to include artificial intelligence (AI) chip design and nine other items, the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) said yesterday.
To protect Taiwan’s crucial technologies in line with global industrial trends and domestic demand, the Executive Yuan on Dec. 5 last year announced a list of 22 key technologies, ranging from national defense and cybersecurity to aerospace, agriculture and semiconductors.
The list aims to prevent secret information about the technologies being leaked to foreign countries, which could put the nation’s security and the competitiveness of local industries at risk, the council said at the time, adding that the list would be reviewed periodically to prevent technology leaks to China, including Hong Kong and Macau, or foreign hostile forces, from undermining the nation’s security, industrial competitiveness and economic development.
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To ensure national security and maintain an industrial competitive edge in response to changes in international regulations, the NSTC yesterday published a preview of set of 10 technologies that it has proposed be added to the list.
The preview is available on its Web site for public feedback and suggestions for 14 days, it said.
The additions were decided based on local and international levels of technology protection, and the status of industrial development in Taiwan, encompassing fields from aerospace and quantum technologies to semiconductors and energy, the agency said.
Technologies such as the design of high-performance computing AI chip and launch systems, including the design and manufacture of small satellite launch systems, were added to bolster the defense of trade secrets for the nation’s core technologies, the NSTC said.
The updated list would help prevent infringements on national and industrial interests, it added.
The NSTC said it would continue to garner expert opinions from a range of fields on the proposed additions and discuss the opinions with authorities until Nov. 15.
A review conference would be convened by the end of the year to approve the 10 new technologies, with the final decision sent to the Executive Yuan for announcement, it said.
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