Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award
| Morris Chang | |
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Chang in 2017
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| Native name | 張忠謀 |
| Born |
10 July 1931 Ningbo, Chekiang, China |
| Residence | Hsinchu and Taipei |
| Nationality | American Chinese Taiwanese |
| Alma mater |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, 1952; MS, 1953) Stanford University (PhD, 1964) |
| Occupation | Founder, chairman and CEO, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) |
| Net worth | US$1 billion+ (July 2017) |
| Spouse(s) | Sophie Chang (張淑芬) |
| Children | 3 |
| Parent(s) | Hsu Chun-wei, Chang Wei-kuan |
Morris Chang (Chinese: 張忠謀; pinyin: Zhāng Zhōngmóu; born 10 July 1931), is a businessman in Taiwan and the founder, chairman and CEO of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world's first and largest silicon foundry. He is known as the semiconductor industry founder of Taiwan.
Chang was born in Ningbo, Zhejiang. When he was younger, he had wanted to become a novelist or journalist. However, his father, an official in the Ningbo county government, persuaded him otherwise. In 1948, as China was in the height of the Chinese Civil War, a year before People’s Republic of China established, Chang moved to Hong Kong.
The very next year he moved yet again to the United States to attend Harvard University. He transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received his bachelor's and master's degrees in mechanical engineering from MIT in 1952 and 1953, respectively. After leaving MIT without obtaining a PhD, he was hired by Sylvania Semiconductor, then just known as a small semiconductor division of Sylvania Electric Products, in 1955. 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. 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.
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