Corporate culture isn’t just built through policies or handbooks. It also happens in the in-between: when people show up, sit down, and connect beyond the task at hand.
As we step into the second half of the year, teams across AMPOWER took time to reconnect, catching up with colleagues we usually pass in the hallway or see in a meeting grid.
Some teams held department get-togethers. For a few hours, the conversation shifted, and it’s the chance to slow down. Nothing groundbreaking on the surface, but these are the moments where trust grows. Quietly, naturally. And with trust, collaboration becomes instinctive, not procedural.
Recently, we filled theaters in Taipei and Tainan for a special screening of “A Chip Odyssey” (造山者-世紀的賭注), inviting employees and their families to experience this powerful documentary together. Five years in the making, the film tells the story of the semiconductor industry in Taiwan, a field closely tied to AMPOWER and the clients we serve.
The documentary charts a sweeping, fifty-year odyssey: beginning with bold government ambition, carried forward by young engineers who left home to learn, then returned to build an industry that would place Taiwan at the center of the global chip supply chain.
It offers no easy answers. Instead, it asks the questions that stay with you: What do we owe the ground we stand on? The industries we’ve built? And the future we’re shaping, together?
Director Hsiao Chu-chen (蕭菊貞) described the work as a tribute to “the spirit of the mountain builders”—those quiet visionaries who turned Taiwan from a humble contender into a global force.
Corporate culture isn’t built in a day. It takes root in honest conversations, quiet listening, and the everyday effort to truly connect. When people feel seen, heard, and motivated, a deeper understanding begins to grow, and that connection becomes our strongest foundation.
[Photo: Activator Co. Ltd., Verse Magazine]
Trailer of “A Chip Odyssey“