Taiwan President Lai Ching-te has called on Micron Technology and its Taiwanese workers to negotiate sincerely and constructively as a labor dispute over employee bonuses moves closer to a possible strike. Reuters reported on October 15 that Micron employs about 15,000 people in Taiwan and has invested more than NT$1.6 trillion there.

The dispute matters beyond labor relations because Taiwan is central to Micron’s advanced memory production. Reuters said Micron recently opened an advanced assembly and testing facility in Taichung and that high-bandwidth-memory capacity at the facility is fully booked through 2027. HBM is the stacked memory technology explained in BitcoinVersus.Tech’s What Is HBM? guide and is increasingly paired with leading AI accelerators.

Micron’s official X post highlights expanded Taiwan operations as part of its global manufacturing buildout to meet rising memory and AI demand.

Micron’s official video shows how the company positions HBM and storage as core components of AI infrastructure.

The labor process is not yet a strike. An earlier Reuters report on October 7 said 99% of 1,994 participating members of Micron’s Taoyuan union voted to authorize strike action, while timing remained undecided. The October 15 report says a Taichung union has also secured authorization and plans an October 19 rally that is not classified as a strike.

That distinction is important: a strike authorization gives a union leverage but does not mean production has stopped. For the semiconductor market, any sustained disruption would matter because AI systems depend on both compute and memory, a relationship visible in our Top 7 AI Chips coverage and our primer on SRAM versus DRAM. For now, negotiations—not a confirmed production shutdown—are the story.

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