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S1E7: TSMC and Taiwan's semiconductor industry, all started 40 years ago at a soy milk restaurant
Startup Island TAIWAN Podcast
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In the early 90s, Mars merges TI Acer into TSMC. They pretty much like increased the entire capacity by two fabs within a couple of months. This is also the origin story of SMIC because the founder of SMIC was the CEO of the second semiconductor fab and he did not want to work for TSMC. The Chinese government actually put in quite a lot of efforts at booing Morris when he started SMIC as it's a communist country.
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