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TIL: TMSC partly comes from a guy not getting a promotion at Texas Instruments and Taiwan wanting to getting in the semiconductor industry at the time with noth
by s_dev 6y ago
TIL: TMSC partly comes from a guy not getting a promotion at Texas Instruments and Taiwan wanting to getting in the semiconductor industry at the time with nothing but a plan.
>In 1983, a 52-year-old senior executive at Texas Instruments was passed over for the company's top job.
>He would go on to found and build the most strategically important company in the world.
https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1353369463190560773 https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1353369463190560773
- tooltalk 6y agoIronically, that's what Mong Song Liang who was passed over for the top position at TSMC and now heads SMIC in China, has been doing.
- hungryhobo 6y agoHe's also the one that got samsung where they are with semi fab.
- tooltalk 6y agoHe was responsible for Samsung's EUV development?