February 21, 1987
Morris Chang founds TSMC
Morris Chang founded Taiwan SemiconductorA material whose conductivity can be controlled — silicon semiconductors are the basis of almost all computer chips. Manufacturing Company on February 21, 1987 — pioneering the pure-play foundry model.
What it was for
TSMC manufactures chips for Apple, NVIDIA, AMD, and Qualcomm without designing its own products — enabling fabless chip companies worldwide. It became the world's most advanced semiconductorA material whose conductivity can be controlled — silicon semiconductors are the basis of almost all computer chips. fab operator.
People
- Morris Chang — founder
Companies
- TSMC
Why it's here
TSMC's foundry model reshaped how the entire chip industry is structured.
Why it mattered
It let startups design chips without building billion-dollar fabs.
What it solved
Integrated device manufacturers hoarded fab capacity and IPInternet Protocol — the addressing and routing layer that moves packets across networks..
Media
ImageMorris Chang總統府, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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