A CHIP ODYSSEY
UCLA Screening & Conversation

Thursday, November 6, 2025 | 1:45-4:30 p.m. PST
Mong Auditorium, Engineering VI

About the Film

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 UCLA screening brings together communities across engineering, cinema, and international studies to reflect on Taiwan’s lessons for the era of AI — highlighting opportunities for U.S.–Taiwan collaboration in science, technology, and workforce development. Learn more!

Program

•  Welcome
   Hsian-Rong Tseng (Master of Ceremonies), Professor, Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
•  Opening Remarks
   Yang Yang, Chair and Professor, Materials Science and Engineering Department, UCLA Samueli
   Kang Wang, Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineer, UCLA Samueli
   Hon. Amino Chi, Director General, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles

•  Film Screening — A Chip Odyssey (106 minutes)
•  Fireside Chat
   Ben Chen 陳添順, Producer
   Chu-Chen Hsiao 蕭菊貞, Director
   Ben Tsiang 蔣顯斌, Producer
   Michael Berry (Moderator), Professor, Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies, UCLA
•  Audience Q&A

Co-Hosts

• UCLA Samueli School of Engineering
• Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles (TECO-LA)
• Southern California Monte Jade Science and Technology Association (SCMJ)
• UCLA Asia Pacific Center
• UCLA Anderson Center for Global Management

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