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Taipei: Taiwan<\/a>'s envoy to a gathering of Asia-Pacific leaders is the 91-year-old billionaire founder of a computer chip manufacturing giant that operated behind the scenes for decades before being thrust into the centre of US-Chinese tension over technology and security.
Morris Chang's hybrid role highlights the clash between Taiwan's status as one of China's top tech suppliers and Beijing's threats to attack the self-ruled island democracy of 22 million people, which the mainland's ruling Communist Party says it part of its territory.
Taiwan's decision to send Chang instead of a political leader to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Thailand reflects the island's unusual status.
The United States and other governments have agreed to Chinese demands not to have official relations with Taiwan or have their leaders meet its president.
Chang transformed the semiconductor industry when he founded Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp<\/a>. in 1987 as the first foundry to produce chips only for customers without designing its own.
That allowed smaller designers to compete with industry giants without spending billions of dollars to build a factory.
TSMC<\/a> has grown into the biggest chip producer, supplying Apple Inc<\/a>., Qualcomm Inc<\/a>. and other customers and turning Taiwan into a global tech centre.
TSMC-produced chips are in millions of smartphones, automobiles and high-end computers.
Despite that, TSMC ranks high on any list of the biggest companies that are unknown outside their industries.
Chang, a Texas Instruments Inc. veteran who served as TSMC chairman until 2018, represented then-President Chen Shui-bian at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in 2006.
He was re-appointed to the same job in 2018, 2019 and 2020 by President Tsai<\/a> Ing-wen.
\"Taiwan's semiconductor industry, especially TSMC, plays a pivotal role in the domestic and even the world economy,\" Tsai told reporters on October 20.
\"At this important moment, Chang is an irreplaceable candidate to serve as the representative of our country's APEC leaders.\"
Britain's trade minister, Greg Hands, said London wants closer cooperation with Taiwan on semiconductors during a visit this month. Britain is home to Arm, a leading chip designer.
Taiwan is in a \"very challenging environment\" and APEC is the \"most important international conference venue for Taiwan,\" Chang said at the October 20 briefing with Tsai.
\"Taiwan needs to build a secure and resilient supply chain with trusted partners, especially in the electronics sector,\" he said.
Last year, Chang warned support was eroding for globalisation and free markets that helped TSMC prosper.
\"Globalisation seems to be a bad word and free market economy' is beginning to carry conditions,\" Chang said while accepting an award from the Asia Society.
\"Many companies in Asia and America face challenges as to how to operate in the new environment,\" Chang said. \"Still, I'm confident that solutions will be found.\"
TSMC was thrust into geopolitics in 2020 when then US President Donald Trump blocked the company and other vendors from using US technology to make chips for Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies Ltd., which produces smartphones and network gear for phone and internet carriers.
American officials say Huawei is a security threat and might enable Chinese spying, an accusation the company denies.
Most of the world's smartphones and other consumer electronics are assembled in Chinese factories. But they need components and technology from the United States, Europe and Asian suppliers - especially Taiwan, the biggest chip exporter.
Huawei, China's first global tech brand, designs chips but needs TSMC and other contractors to make them.
Their foundries need American manufacturing technology, which gives Washington leverage to disrupt Chinese high-tech industry.
Processor chips are China's biggest import at USD 300 billion a year, ahead of oil. The ruling Communist Party sees that as a strategic weakness and is spending heavily to create its own chip producers, but they are generations behind TSMC and other global leaders.
Trump's successor, Joe Biden, left Trump's curbs in place and imposed more restrictions that extend to other Chinese companies.
TSMC, headquartered in Hsinchu, adjacent to the Taiwan capital, Taipei, says it made 12,302 different products last year for 535 customers. The company reported an USD 18.7 billion profit last year on USD 49.8 billion in revenue.
Chang was born in Ningbo, south of Shanghai, and moved to Hong Kong after a civil war on the mainland ended with the Communist Party taking power in 1949.
The mainland's former ruling Nationalist Party fled to Taiwan. The two sides have been ruled separately since then. They have no official relations but are linked by billions of dollars of trade and investment.
Chang studied at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before receiving a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1964.
Chang spent a quarter-century at Texas Instruments, rising to become a vice president in charge of its semiconductor business, before being invited to Taiwan in the 1980s to lead a technology research institute.
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台北:台湾的特使亚太领导人峰会是91岁的创始人亿万富翁电脑芯片制造巨头在幕后操作前几十年来被推到美中紧张关系的中心在技术和安全。
张忠谋的混合作用凸显了冲突台湾作为中国顶尖技术供应商之一,北京的威胁攻击2200万人的民主自治的台湾岛,中国大陆的共产党表示,其领土的一部分。
台湾的决定向张而不是政治领袖亚太经济合作峰会在泰国反映了台湾不同寻常的地位。
美国和其他国家的政府已经同意中国与台湾要求没有官方关系或其领导人满足其总统。
当他创办常改变了半导体行业台湾半导体制造公司。1987年作为第一个铸造生产的芯片只对客户没有自己设计。
让小设计师与行业巨头竞争没有花费数十亿美元建造工厂。
台积电已经发展成为最大的芯片生产商,提供苹果(aapl . o:行情)。,高通(qcom . o:行情)。和其他客户和把台湾变成全球科技中心。
TSMC-produced芯片在数以百万计的智能手机、汽车和高端的电脑。
尽管如此,台积电在未知的任何最大的公司在他们的行业。
常,德州仪器公司(Texas Instruments inc .)资深担任台积电董事长直到2018年,代表陈水扁在2006年亚太经济合作会议。
他再次任命同样的工作在2018年,2019年和2020年的总统蔡蔡英文。
“台湾半导体产业,尤其是台积电,扮演一个关键的角色在国内乃至世界经济,”蔡在10月20日告诉记者。
“在这个重要的时刻,常是不可替代的候选人作为我国APEC领导人的代表。”
英国贸易部长格雷格的手,说,伦敦希望加强合作与台湾在半导体本月访问期间。英国的手臂,是一个领先的芯片设计。
台湾是“极具挑战性的环境”,亚太经合组织是“对台湾最重要的国际会议场地,”常与蔡在10月20日发布会上说。
“台湾需要建立一个安全的和有弹性的供应链与值得信赖的合作伙伴,特别是在电子行业,”他说。
去年,Chang警告支持帮助台积电侵蚀对全球化和自由市场繁荣。
“全球化似乎是一个不好的词和自由市场经济开始携带条件,”Chang说,虽然从亚洲协会接受奖项。
“许多公司在亚洲和美国面临挑战,如何在新环境中运作,“Chang说。“不过,我有信心,解决方案会被发现。”
台积电刺入地缘政治在2020年时任美国总统唐纳德·特朗普阻止该公司和其他供应商使用我们的技术为中国芯片科技巨头华为技术有限公司,生产智能手机和手机和网络运营商的网络设备。
美国官员说华为是一个安全的威胁,可能会使中国间谍,指责该公司对此予以否认。
世界上大部分的智能手机和其他消费电子产品是在中国工厂组装。但是他们需要组件和技术来自美国、欧洲和亚洲供应商,尤其是台湾,芯片的最大出口国。
华为,中国第一个全球科技品牌,设计芯片,但需要台积电和其他承包商。
铸造厂需要美国制造业的技术,这让华盛顿杠杆来扰乱中国的高科技产业。
处理器芯片是在每年3000亿美元,中国最大的进口石油。执政的共产党认为,作为一个战略弱点,加大开支以创建自己的芯片生产商,但他们背后的代台积电和其他全球领导人。
特朗普的继任者,乔·拜登,左特朗普的限制和施加更多的限制,扩展到其它中国公司。
台积电公司,总部位于新竹,毗邻台湾,台北,称其为535客户去年赚了12302种不同的产品。该公司公布去年187亿美元利润498亿美元的收入。
张出生在宁波,上海以南,搬到香港在大陆的内战结束后,中国共产党在1949年夺取政权。
大陆的前执政党国民党逃到台湾。此后双方已分别统治。他们没有官方关系,但与数十亿美元的贸易和投资。
Chang就读于哈佛大学和麻省理工学院之前收到1964年从斯坦福大学电气工程的博士学位。
常在德州仪器公司度过了四分之一个世纪,成为其半导体业务的副总裁负责,之前被邀请到台湾在1980年代领导技术研究所。
1988年,台积电成为台湾第一家公司在纽约证券交易所进行交易。常在公司的股份价值16亿美元。
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