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Morris Chang (張忠謀) was born on 10 July, 1931 in Ningbo, Chekiang Province, People's Republic of China, is a Taiwanese-American businessman (born 1931). Discover Morris Chang's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 92 years old?

Popular As 張忠謀
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Age 92 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 10 July, 1931
Birthday 10 July
Birthplace Ningbo, Chekiang Province, People's Republic of China
Nationality China

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1931

Morris Chang (, Ningbo Wu: Jiann阴平去 Zong阴平去mœü阳舒; born 10 July 1931) is a Taiwanese-American businessman and electrical engineer.

He built his career first in the United States and then subsequently in Taiwan.

He is the founder, as well as former chairman and CEO, of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC).

He is known as the semiconductor industry founder of Taiwan.

, his net worth was estimated at US$2.8billion.

Chang was born in the city Ningbo, situated within Chekiang in China, in 1931.

When he was young, he wanted to become a novelist or journalist, though his father persuaded him otherwise.

The elder Chang was an official in charge of finance for the Yin county government and later a bank manager.

1937

Due to his father's career and the outbreak of World War II/Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945), the Chang family moved from Nanjing, Guangzhou, Chongqing and Shanghai due to the war situation.

Chang spent most of his primary school years in British Hong Kong between the ages of six and eleven.

1941

In 1941, the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong began and Chang's family went back to Shanghai and Ningbo to live for a few months, eventually making their way to the temporary capital, Chongqing.

1948

In 1948, as China was in the height of the restarted Chinese Civil War, a year before People’s Republic of China (PRC) was established and the Republic of China (ROC)'s retreat to Taiwan, Chang again moved to Hong Kong.

1949

In 1949, Chang moved to the United States to attend Harvard University.

1952

He transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in his sophomore year and received his bachelor's and master's degrees in mechanical engineering from MIT in 1952 and 1953, respectively.

1955

Chang failed two consecutive doctoral qualification examinations and eventually left MIT without obtaining a PhD. In 1955 he turned down a job offer from Ford Motor Company and joined Sylvania Semiconductor, then known as a small semiconductor division of Sylvania Electric Products.

He was tasked with improving germanium transistor yields, besides device development.

1958

Three years later, he moved to Texas Instruments in 1958, which was then rapidly rising in its field.

After three years at TI, he rose to manager of the engineering section of the company.

During his 25-year career (1958–1983) at Texas Instruments, he rose up in the ranks to become the group vice president responsible for TI's worldwide semiconductor business.

1961

It was then, in 1961, that TI decided to invest in him by giving him the opportunity to obtain his PhD degree, which he received in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1964.

Chang worked on a four-transistor project for TI where the manufacturing was done by IBM.

This was one of the early semiconductor foundry relationships.

Also at TI, Chang pioneered the then controversial idea of pricing semiconductors "ahead of the cost curve", which meant sacrificing early profits ("short term") to gain market share and achieve manufacturing yields that would result in greater profits over an extended timeline ("long-term").

1970

In the late 1970s, when TI's focus turned to calculators, digital watches and home computers, Chang felt like his career focused on semiconductors was at a dead end at TI.

1980

In the early 1980s, while still at Texas Instruments, Chang witnessed TI's factory in Japan achieving twice the chip production yield as TI's factory in Texas.

Observing that the staff and technicians in Japan are better qualified and had lower turnover, and failing to recruit the same caliber of staff in the United States, he concluded that future of advanced manufacturing appeared to be in Asia.

After he left General Instrument Corporation, Sun Yun-suan, Premier of the Republic of China (ROC), recruited him to become chairman and president of the Industrial Technology Research Institute in Taiwan, where the ROC government is now based, having lost the mainland.

This marked his return to the ROC, initially thought to last for a few years, three decades after he left during the chaotic Chinese Civil War mainly between the People's Republic of China and the ROC.

As head of a government-sponsored non-profit, he was in charge of promoting industrial and technological development in Taiwan.

1984

Chang left TI and later became president and chief operating officer of General Instrument Corporation (1984–1985).

1987

Chang founded TSMC in 1987, the beginning of the period where firms increasingly saw value in outsourcing their manufacturing capabilities to Asia.

Soon, TSMC became one of the world's most profitable chip makers.

1994

Chang left ITRI in 1994 and became chairman of Vanguard International Semiconductor Corporation from 1994 to 2003 while continuing to serve as chairman of TSMC.

2005

In 2005, he handed TSMC's CEO position to Rick Tsai.

2006

He represented Chen Shui-bian in 2006.

2009

In June 2009, Chang returned to the position of TSMC's CEO once again.

2018

On June 5, 2018, Chang announced his retirement, succeeded by C.C. Wei as CEO and Mark Liu as chairman.

Chang was awarded the Order of Propitious Clouds, First Class in September 2018.

Chang has served as Presidential Envoy of the Republic of China (Taiwan) to APEC several times.

Tsai Ing-wen appointed Chang to the same role six times from 2018 to 2023.