Korea Taiwan Chip Exports
Korea and Taiwan Chip Exports Data
Korea and Taiwan sit at the center of the global semiconductor supply chain — together they account for the majority of foundry capacity, advanced packaging and high-bandwidth memory production. Their monthly export statistics are the earliest, most granular read on the global chip cycle, AI infrastructure build-out and consumer-electronics demand. FinzData's Global Macro Pulse Asia tech exports module delivers the full history of Korea and Taiwan chip and AI-hardware export series with every vintage: first release and all subsequent revisions. Traders use these vintages to nowcast foundry utilization, memory pricing and equipment spending; economists track the inventory cycle and trade elasticity; data scientists build point-in-time models for Nvidia, TSMC, Samsung, SK Hynix and supply-chain peers.
Why Korea and Taiwan chip exports matter to markets
The semiconductor cycle drives capital expenditure, inventory investment and earnings across a vast swath of global equities — from fabless designers and foundries to equipment makers, materials suppliers and end-market OEMs. Korea's customs data and Taiwan's MOEA statistics break out integrated circuits, memory, microprocessors, and increasingly AI-accelerator hardware (GPUs, HBM, advanced packaging). Because these economies are small, open and trade-dependent, their export volumes respond rapidly to global demand shifts — often leading US tech earnings by 4-8 weeks. The vintage structure is critical: initial releases are frequently revised as late customs declarations arrive, and those revisions contain information about the true trajectory of the cycle. Point-in-time access lets you simulate exactly what a trader knew each month.
- Korea: IC, memory, microprocessor, AI-hardware exports by destination
- Taiwan: IC, foundry, packaging, AI-accelerator exports by destination
- Every vintage: first release and all revisions
- Point-in-time semantics for look-ahead-free backtests
What the data shows
The Asia tech exports dataset provides monthly export values (USD) and volumes (kg) for Korea and Taiwan, disaggregated by HS code groupings that map to memory, logic, analog, discrete, optoelectronics and AI-specific categories (HBM, GPU modules, advanced packaging). Destination-country breakdowns reveal supply-chain rerouting — for example, China/Hong Kong versus US versus Southeast Asia shares. Each observation carries its vintage date: the value as published on the first release date, and each subsequent revision. This allows you to measure revision magnitude, direction and timing — a proven signal for cycle turning points. The series run from 2019 onward, covering the pandemic demand surge, the 2022-2023 inventory correction, and the AI-driven recovery.
- Monthly USD value and kg volume by HS-code category
- Destination-country breakdown for supply-chain mapping
- Full vintage stack: first release plus all revisions
- History from 2019 through present
How to use it
Access the data through your FinzData API key with the MCP tool get_global_pulse or call GET https://api.finzdata.com/v1/pulse/asia_tech_exports?match=NAME. Filter by country (Korea, Taiwan), HS category, destination, vintage date, or publication date. Join with the 16,000+ US equity universe, 5,100+ ETFs, 139 futures markets and 18,000+ macro series on the same key to build cross-asset signals — for example, long memory-equipment names when Korea HBM export revisions turn positive, or hedge TSMC ADR exposure using Taiwan foundry-export momentum. The point-in-time structure lets you simulate exactly what a strategy would have seen in real time.
- Filter by country, HS category, destination, vintage, publication date
- Join with equities, ETFs, futures and macro on one key
- Point-in-time rows eliminate look-ahead bias
Ask your AI
Use the FinzData connector in Claude, ChatGPT or Grok to ask questions in natural language. Example prompts:
- Using FinzData, show me Korea memory export revisions for the last 12 months and flag months where the revision exceeded 5%.
- Using FinzData, plot Taiwan AI-accelerator export vintages versus Nvidia quarterly revenue and compute the lead-lag.
- Using FinzData, compute the correlation between Korea IC export momentum and the SOX index on a rolling 6-month basis using only first-release data.
Get the data
Korea and Taiwan chip exports are part of FinzData Global Macro Pulse. Buy the full suite — every dataset and full history — for a one-time $195 at Get Global Macro Pulse, $195. Prefer just the Asia tech exports theme? Subscribe for $29. Add Pulse for $145 alongside any other data purchase. Every API key gets the last 30 days free.
Frequently asked questions
What product categories are covered?
Integrated circuits, memory, microprocessors, analog, discrete, optoelectronics and AI-specific categories (HBM, GPU modules, advanced packaging).
Are destination countries available?
Yes. Exports are broken out by destination for supply-chain rerouting analysis.
What does 'every vintage' mean?
Each monthly observation includes the first-release value and all subsequent revisions, each tagged with its publication date.
Is the data point-in-time?
Every row preserves the information set known on that vintage date, enabling look-ahead-free backtests.