TSMC Founder Morris Chang

We flew to Taiwan to interview TSMC Founder Morris Chang in a
rare English interview. In fact, the last long-form video
interview we could find was 17 years ago at the Computer History
Museum… conducted by the one-and-only Jensen Huang! This episode
came about after asking ourselves a version of the Jeff Bezos
“regret minimization” question: what conversations would we most
regret not having if the chance passed Acquired by? Dr. Chang was
number one on our list, and thanks to a little help from Jensen
himself, we’re so happy to make it happen.



Dr. Chang shares the stories of a few crucial moments from TSMC’s
history which have only been written about in his (currently
Chinese-only) memoirs, including how TSMC won Apple’s iPhone and
Mac chip business and a 2009 discrepancy with NVIDIA that almost
jeopardized their relationship, and the lessons he took from
them. We can’t think of a better way to kick off 2025. Please
enjoy!





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Links:


Worldly Partners’ Multi-Decade TSMC Study

Karina Bao’s writing



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