As Taiwan focused on developing its semiconductor industry (its first semiconductor plant began producing chips in 1969), Chang was appointed by the Taiwanese government to lead an enterprise focused on chip manufacturing. Said, and left America in 1985.
“I certainly had no plans to spend so much time in Taiwan.” told the New York Times. “I thought I might be going back in a few years, and I didn’t really have any plans to set up TSMC to set up a company in Taiwan.”
Chang was asked by Lee Kuoh-ting, the godfather of Taiwan’s tech development and a government official, to commercialize Taiwan’s state-led chip efforts, and the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company was founded in 1987. was
TSMC will be a chipmaker, not a chip designer, and will compete with the dominant Intel and South Korea’s Samsung.
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