Name
Morris Chang
Morris Chang
Hsinchu, Taiwan
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Master of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Ph.D, Stanford University
Taiwan
semiconductors, Self Made
$1,100,000,000
2057
#2057 Billionaires 2019
#36 Taiwan's 50 Richest 2018
Chang chairs Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, one of the world's largest manufacturers of semiconductors. His degrees from MIT are in mechanical engineering and his PhD is in electrical engineering.Chang worked for a quarter-century at Texas Instruments and then joined the Taiwan research body that spun off TSMC.TSMC customers include Apple, Nvidia and Qualcomm.
Chang founded TSMC in 1987; a decade later the company became the first Taiwanese firm to trade on the New York Stock Exchange.
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