Morris Chang

Morris Chang is a Taiwanese electrical engineer and business executive, born in Ningbo, China, in 1931, who lived in Hong Kong before moving to the United States. He studied at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned a doctorate at Stanford in 1964, then worked as a semiconductor engineer at Sylvania and Texas Instruments and became president and chief operating officer of General Instrument in 1984. After heading Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute, he founded Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company in 1987, the world's first semiconductor foundry, and served as its chief executive from 1987 to 2005 and as chairman until 2018. He is regarded as the founder of Taiwan's semiconductor industry.