Morris Chang
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Founder of TSMC — inventor of the foundry model itself.
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Chang founded TSMC in 1987 at age 55 on a then-heretical idea: a chip company that only manufactures, for everyone. The pure-play foundry model he invented made fabless designers like NVIDIA possible and concentrated the world's advanced manufacturing in Taiwan — the geography this entire database orbits. He retired in 2018; his memoirs became essential industry reading.
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