You're invited! I'm giving a talk about my research on Monday and it will be accessible via Zoom. Please use the following link for more information about the event. Links for registration and to download my paper are in the comments below. Would love to see you there!
@eastsportsman Oh yes, I remembered well that morning on cbs, it was announced that you and the team are starting a new sport show. I have been hooked since.
• be Morris Chang
• survive WWII in China, escape to America in 1949
• go to MIT, fail the PhD qualifying exam twice
• decide academia is a trap, join Texas Instruments
• spend 25 years climbing the ranks, building their entire semiconductor division into a global powerhouse
• get passed over for the CEO job because of corporate politics
• 1985: you are 54 years old. Most executives are buying golf clubs and preparing to retire.
• the Taiwanese government begs you to move to a tiny island and build their tech sector from scratch
• you look at the global chip industry and see a massive, glaring inefficiency
• the industry rule at the time: "Real men have fabs" (if you want to design chips, you have to spend billions to build the factory to make them)
• Chang realizes: "What if a factory just prints everyone else's designs, and promises never to compete with them?"
• 1987: founds TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) at age 56
• invents the "pure-play foundry" model
• traditional hardware giants like Intel and IBM laugh at him for just doing the "dirty work"
• suddenly, a guy named Jensen Huang (NVIDIA) and companies like Apple realize they can design world-class chips without spending $10 Billion on a factory
• TSMC single-handedly births the entire "fabless" technology industry
• scales the physics down to the atomic level, printing circuits smaller than a biological virus
• becomes an absolute, unbreakable monopoly on advanced human technology
• accidentally builds a "Silicon Shield" around Taiwan
• the US and China both realize that if Morris Chang's factories go offline for a single week, the entire global economy (smartphones, fighter jets, AI, car manufacturing) instantly collapses
• steps down, comes out of retirement at age 78 during the 2008 financial crisis to ruthlessly fire the CEO, doubles R&D spending while everyone else is panicking, and permanently crushes Intel
• 94 years old, smokes a pipe, plays competitive bridge, and controls the single most important bottleneck on planet Earth
"We do not compete with our customers. We are everybody's foundry."
Zidane is still in prison for defending his Christian community against Islamic terrorists and he’s been sentenced to death.
Self-defense is not a crime..
Free Zidane now !!!!