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Contract Chipmaker TSMC Looks To Show Innovative Side.(INTERNET & TECHNOLOGY)(Q & A)
Byline: JAMES DETAR
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is out to prove it's a technology leader.
TSMC doesn't design chips. It manufactures them for its chip customers.
It's recruited new management talent in its bid for the leadership mantle. It hired noted University of California, Berkeley, professor Calvin Chenming Hu as its first chief technology officer last June. He's in charge of TSMC's tech strategy.
While at Berkeley, Hu co-founded Celestry Design Technologies Inc., a private chip design software firm. He left the university to become co-chairman of the San Jose, Calif.-based company.
Hu spearheaded TSMC's April 9 rollout of a new chip process called Nexsys. With Nexsys, TSMC can make chips with metal lines just 90 nanometers wide. That's less than one-thousandth the width of a human hair. The company expects the new process to boost sales.
Hu talked about Nexsys in an interview with Investor's Business Daily. He also discussed plans to build on the company's position as a technology leader.
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