A Chip Odyssey is Taiwan’s first feature-length documentary chronicling the history of its semiconductor industry — how a resource-scarce island became a global powerhouse through vision, grit, and decades of world-class engineering. The film interweaves interviews with more than eighty leaders from industry, government and academia to tell the story of a high-stakes national “gamble of the century” that reshaped geopolitics and innovation worldwide.

This screening is co-sponsored by the Schmidt Program, the Council on East Asian Studies, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Litereratures. Professor Jing Tsu will moderate the conversation.