TSMC Founder Morris Chang

Acquired by Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

Jan 27, 2025176:11Technology

We flew to Taiwan to interview TSMC Founder Morris Chang in a rare English interview. In fact, the last long-form video interview we could find was 17 years ago at the Computer History Museum… conducted by the one-and-on...

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