01 · Companies & People
The names behind the chips, machines, and materials.
Profiles, interviews, and longform features on Taiwan's industrial companies and the people running them — from family-run precision shops to publicly traded giants.
The weekly brief · Launching 2026
One short email each week — the companies, decisions, and shifts shaping Taiwan's industrial economy. Read by the people building, buying, and betting on it.
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What Compass Global Magazine is
Taiwan is one of the most consequential industrial economies on earth. The companies built here make the things the rest of the world buys — semiconductors, precision machinery, the materials and components that flow through every supply chain. The decisions made here shape what gets built, where, and by whom.
The English coverage of all this is split between trade press too narrow to read for context, and geopolitics coverage that treats Taiwan as a chess piece in someone else's story. Compass Global Magazine reports a third position: Taiwan as subject — its companies, its industries, its people, its decisions — for the buyers, investors, and curious readers who need to understand it.
Reporting Taiwan as a subject, not a chess piece. — Compass Global Magazine
What the magazine covers
01 · Companies & People
Profiles, interviews, and longform features on Taiwan's industrial companies and the people running them — from family-run precision shops to publicly traded giants.
02 · Industries & Technology
Reporting on Taiwan's industrial categories — semiconductors, machinery, materials, automation, energy — and the technologies shaping where each one goes next.
03 · Context & Policy
Trade policy, industrial strategy, geopolitical pressure, and the cultural and historical context that shapes how decisions actually get made.
Compass Intelligence · the data side
The magazine reports. The Intelligence ranks. The Industrial Excellence Index is a methodology-backed quarterly ranking of Taiwan industrial suppliers — for buyers and investors who need verified scoring without flying to Taichung.
Two axes, transparently weighted, refreshed every ninety days. A separate product from the magazine and the brief — the intelligence layer Taiwan's export sector has been missing.
On the roadmap · After the magazine launchesAxis 01
Peer recognition, operating tenure, scale of staff and capital, and on-the-ground field verification.
Axis 02
Certifications, export track record, U.S./EU compliance posture, and English-language operational readiness.
For now, the brief.
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