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TSMC to Build Chip Fab in Japan

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After a week of media rumor, leaks and speculation, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. TSMC), the world's largest contract chip manufacturer, announced in an online earnings briefing Thursday that it would build a semiconductor plant in Japan. TSMC gains fundamental science knowledge to help it build more advanced chips.

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TSMC R&D Chief: There’s Light at the End of the Chip Shortage

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Yuh-Jier Mii started on the ground floor of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. He shares the award with his colleague Cliff Hou , TSMC’s senior vice president of technology development and corporate research. Growing up in Taiwan, the environment encouraged people to become scientists or engineers.”.

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Inside the Global Race to Tap Potent Offshore Wind

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Ireland, South Korea, and Taiwan are among the other countries with bold floating wind ambitions. What the industry really needs to drive down costs, they say, is economies of scale. “In Building superstable platforms like Ideol’s and Principle Power’s to accommodate conventional turbines is expensive.

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

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Around the world, many of Kim’s protégés were lauded for their brilliant success in transforming the economy of a nation that had just started assembling radio sets in 1959 and was fabricating outdated memory chips in the early ’80s. That success can be traced in part to Kim, now an emeritus professor at KAIST. Chang Hae-Ja.