To be fair this is mainly a dutch disease style issue. Taiwan was a dominating player in PCs in the 90s, not only under its own brands but making a large percentage of US-company branded products too. Since this was a cash cow, they failed to be forced to innovate. I still think there are pockets of excellence - personally love the Gigabyte Brix Pro: costs me much less to prototype clustering solutions using a bunch of these little muthas than renting off Amazon - and in the world of Gaming PCs a whole bunch of Taiwanese companies are super competitive and very innovative.