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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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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success in transforming the economy of a nation that had just started assembling radio sets in 1959 and was fabricating outdated memory chips in the early ’80s.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. Legend and Legacy.