Aug 21, 2023 20:00:00

What kind of life has Morris Chan, who founded the world's largest semiconductor foundry 'TSMC'?

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Sotongfu

Matt Bevan of ABC News focused on Morris Chan, the founder of Taiwan's TSMC, which is famous as a company that manufactures 'semiconductors' used in various hardware such as smartphones, PCs, and cars. I'm here.

Morris Chang founded TSMC — the world's most important company. Now everyone wants control of it - ABC News
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Born in Zhejiang, China, he went to the United States in his teens and was educated at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At the age of 27, he started working at Texas Instruments in the United States, which develops and manufactures semiconductors.

Mr. Bevan said, ``The semiconductor manufacturing process at that time was very complicated, and almost nothing worked properly. “It has risen to 30%,” he said. Mr. Chan's arm is expected to be promoted by his boss, and Texas Instruments paid for Mr. Chan to obtain a doctorate degree.

Like Texas Instruments, every high-tech company at the time spent a lot of time and effort figuring out how to run a great semiconductor factory in-house. However, semiconductors are very difficult to manufacture, and the challenge is to operate incredibly complex and expensive machines in a clean environment.

Mr. Chan felt doubts about the method at the time, in which each company built a semiconductor factory with a mountain of problems like this, and said that high-tech companies should focus on semiconductor design and outsource the actual manufacturing to companies that specialize in it. He thought it was.

However, this idea was not accepted by Texas Instruments, and Mr. Chan later retired from the company where he worked for about 25 years.

A few years later, the Taiwanese government approached Mr. Chan. Mr. Chan established TSMC in Taiwan through the director of the Taiwan Institute of Industrial Technology and puts into practice the government's idea of `` making Taiwan the central capital of the world's semiconductors ''. TSMC at this time was born in a public-private partnership with the Taiwanese government, and 50% of the capital was issued by the government.

by Lee Jilin

Forty years after its founding, TSMC has become the world's largest foundry and responsible for the world's smallest semiconductor manufacturing.