TSMC founder Morris Chang supplied high job to Jensen Huang, memoir reveals

Chang revealed provide in autobiography revealed on Friday

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Ebook additionally chronicles TSMC’s dealings with main clients

By Wen-Yee Lee

TAIPEI, – TSMC’s founder Morris Chang requested Nvidia’s Jensen Huang to think about turning into the chief govt of the Taiwanese chip large greater than a decade in the past, however was turned down in simply 10 minutes, Chang says in a brand new quantity of autobiography.

Huang, who has served as chief govt of the AI chipmaker since founding the corporate, informed Chang, “I have already got a job,” the 93-year-old recounted within the memoir, revealed on Friday, that recounts his life from 1964 to 2018.

The second quantity of Chang’s autobiography covers his 25 years at Texas Devices and the founding of TSMC in 1987, after the primary, about his adolescence, was revealed in 1998.

The brand new quantity recounts a few of TSMC’s dealings with main clients reminiscent of Apple and Qualcomm, in addition to how Intel turned down an invite to spend money on TSMC within the Nineteen Eighties earlier than turning into a key buyer.

Chang additionally describes his friendship of greater than twenty years with Huang, who has turned California-based Nvidia into one of many world’s most useful corporations amid a surge of curiosity in synthetic intelligence.

The 2 males have commonly praised one another in public over time, with Huang crediting Chang for Nvidia’s success.

Within the e-book, Chang stated that whereas trying to find a successor in 2013, he considered Huang as a perfect candidate due to his character, skilled expertise, and semiconductor experience.

“I spent about 10 minutes concisely explaining my deep expectations for TSMC,” Chang recalled. He stated Huang listened patiently however responded, “I have already got a job.”

A number of weeks later, Chang tried once more, however Huang was determined.

“Jensen’s response to me was sincere: He ‘already had a job!’ That job was to raise Nvidia to what it’s at present, 11 years later,” wrote Chang.

Nvidia didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon Chang’s e-book.

Chang added that when Huang was choosing a producing companion for Nvidia, he was prepared to wager the whole lot on TSMC.

For its half, TSMC despatched two manufacturing employees to assist Nvidia in 1998 when the up-and-coming agency was short-staffed.

Chang additionally wrote that he approached Gordon Moore, then CEO of Intel, when he was elevating funds for TSMC within the Nineteen Eighties.

The U.S. chipmaker didn’t make investments, however later turned one in every of TSMC’s clients, contracting to make its newest laptop computer chips.

Chang stated Intel CEO Pat Gelsigner had since 2021 set his sights on turning the corporate right into a foundry participant.

Whereas he wished the trouble luck, Chang stated Intel’s long-standing enterprise mannequin, specializing in the in-house manufacturing of its personal chip merchandise, may make such a transfer laborious, given foundries makes chips designed by different corporations.

Intel didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

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