Morris Chang — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries

“I said, 'Look, I heard you, but I am still the guy that's responsible for the operation of the company. So you need to let me go ahead with this one.'”

— Morris Chang, on convincing the board to triple CapEx for 28nm

“Intel just does not know how to be a foundry.”

— Tim Cook to Morris Chang, explaining why Apple chose TSMC over Intel

“There's a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood leads on to fortune.”

— Morris Chang, quoting Shakespeare on betting big on 28nm

“My reaction entering Harvard was sheer ecstasy, almost disbelief. What a country. The United States was at its peak in its moral leadership and its political leadership in terms of democracy, and it was the richest country in the world. Not to mention stable.”

— Morris Chang

“The semiconductor business is like a treadmill that speeds up all the time. If you can't keep up, you fall off.”

— Morris Chang

“It was like in the movie The Godfather. It was an offer I couldn't refuse.”

— Morris Chang, on being ordered by the Taiwanese government to start a semiconductor company.