A sign for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. in Shanghai. A chip made by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is seen at the 2020 World Semiconductor Conference in Nanjing, China. TSMC has tried to be the Switzerland of the chip industry, but those days are over. Morris Chang, TSMC’s founderChang, TSMC’s founder, is accustomed to conflict. Advertisement“It was thought that every company needed manufacturing ... and that was the most capital intensive part of a semiconductor company,” Chang said in a 2007 interview with SEMI, a chip industry association.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 17, 2020 09:32 UTC