How old is Zhang Zhongmou?

Zhang Zhongmou, 193 1, 10 was born in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province in July. He is the founder of Taiwan Province Integrated Circuit Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (TSMC) and is known as "the king of chips" and "the godfather of semiconductors" in Taiwan Province Province. He is a member of the board of directors of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an academician of Taiwan Province Academy of Mechanical Sciences, and a consultant of new york Stock Exchange and Stanford University.

At the age of 24, as a graduate of MIT, he entered the semiconductor industry with Gordon Moore, the founder of Intel Corporation, and entered Texas Instruments with jack kilby, the inventor of integrated circuits.

On June 5, 20 18, Zhang Zhongmou announced his official retirement.

August 20 19, he ranked 2057th in Forbes list of global billionaires. On February 26th, 2020, with a wealth of RMB 654.38+000 billion, Shimao Shenzhen-Hong Kong International Center ranked the 2000th in the Hurun Global Rich List in 2020.

Chinese name: Zhang Zhongmou.

Mbth: MorrisChang

Nationality: USA

Ethnic group: Han nationality

Place of birth: Ningbo, Zhejiang

Date of birth: 193 1 July 10.

Occupation: entrepreneur

Graduate school: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Main achievements: founded TSMC.

Masterpiece: Digital Photogrammetry

Constellation: Cancer

Zodiac: sheep

personal record

193 1 was born in Ningbo, Zhejiang. His father is the finance director of Yinxian County, Ningbo, and his mother is a descendant of Xu Shidong, a famous bibliophile in Ningbo in Qing Dynasty.

193 1-1940, the family fled to Nanjing, Guangzhou, Chongqing, Shanghai and Hong Kong, and spent most of their childhood in Hong Kong.

194 1 year, Hong Kong and Kowloon were occupied by Japan. His father, Zhang, took his wife and children to Chongqing and entered Chongqing Nankai Middle School.

1949, 18-year-old Zhang Zhongmou entered Harvard University. There are 1000 freshmen in this school. He is the only person from China.

1950, Zhang Zhongmou transferred to MIT, specializing in mechanical engineering.

1954, master's degree in mechanical engineering from MIT.

From 65438 to 0955, 24-year-old Zhang Zhongmou worked as an engineer in the semiconductor department of Sylva-nia, an electrical appliance company near Boston, and entered the semiconductor industry.

From 65438 to 0958, 27-year-old Zhang Zhongmou came to Texas and entered Texas Instruments, becoming the first China employee of Texas Instruments. At that time, the annual turnover of Texas Instruments was less than $654.38 billion.

1964 received a doctorate in electronic engineering from Stanford University and returned to Texas Instruments.

1965, promoted to general manager of integrated circuit department.

From 65438 to 0972, he became the vice president and senior vice president of Texas Instruments, and was the third person of Texas Instruments, second only to the chairman and president. At this time, Texas Instruments has already become the number one in the world, with 60,000 employees worldwide, half of whom are under the control of Zhang Zhongmou. He was the first China man to enter the top management of a big American company.

1At the end of 1970s, Intel was invincible in the memory market. At that time, Xia Bai, the president of Intel, attached great importance to consumer electronic products and was unwilling to invest more in semiconductors, while Zhang Zhongmou was too strong-willed to give in, calling for more investment in semiconductors on different occasions inside and outside the company.

From 65438 to 0985, he resigned from the high-paying position in the United States and returned to Taiwan Province Province, China. Invited by Taiwan Province Province to be the president of Taiwan Province Industrial Technology Research Institute, he has made outstanding contributions to the rise and industrial upgrading of semiconductor industry in Taiwan Province Province.

1987, Zhang Zhongmou founded the world's first professional foundry company-Taiwan Province Integrated Circuit Manufacturing Company (TSMC) in Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan Province Province, and quickly developed into a leading enterprise in the semiconductor industry in Taiwan Province Province.

In 2006, Zhang Zhongmou appointed Cai as CEO, and he only served as the chairman. At that time, Cai worked for 20 years, starting from the factory director, and was the right-hand man for training.

In 2009, under the financial turmoil, TSMC was on the verge of losing money in the first quarter, and Zhang Zhongmou returned to TSMC as CEO, which shocked the global semiconductor industry.

In the first quarter of 20 10, TSMC's operating income reached NT$ 92190 million, and its after-tax surplus was NT$ 33.66 billion, making it the most profitable enterprise among the 300 listed companies in Taiwan Province Province. The annual operating income exceeded NT$ 400 billion, with a growth rate of over 40%. The market value reached NT$ 2 trillion, and the share price rose by 30.65%. The annual operating income of 201/kloc-0 is expected to exceed 500 billion Taiwan dollars.

On June 5, 20 18, Zhang Zhongmou announced his formal retirement at the shareholders' meeting.

Personal realization

research field

VirtuoZo, the industrialized product of his all-digital automatic photogrammetry system (including art design and virtual photogrammetry), completely simplifies the instruments and equipment of digital photogrammetry and changes the "aristocratic" status of photogrammetry. VirtuoZo is a digital photogrammetry system with independent intellectual property rights in China, which has been widely used at home and abroad for more than 1000 sets, resulting in economic benefits of over 100 million yuan. China's digital photogrammetry has come to the forefront of the world, winning glory for the Chinese nation.

Moreover, this surveying system began to update the annual topographic map of the Three Gorges dam area as early as 1997. Dunhuang research institute applied it to mural protection; Zurich University of Technology used it to successfully rebuild the image of Bamiyan Buddha in Afghanistan. Germany and Belgium use it to process coronal satellite images; Britain uses it to process aster stereo satellite images; It is used in digital city design in Korea and eth-Virtuozo in Switzerland.

Reward honor

Digital Photogrammetry won the third prize of "National Excellent Science and Technology Book Award" and "Science and Technology Progress Award (Science and Technology Works)" from 65438 to 0999.

representative works

Because of its outstanding contribution to the semiconductor industry, it was rated by the American media as one of the greatest contributors in the 50-year history of the semiconductor industry and one of the best managers in the world. The international media called him "the man who made his opponent tremble", while the people of Taiwan Province province respected him as "the godfather of semiconductor" because he pioneered the professional semiconductor foundry.

Rich ranking

August 20 19, he ranked 2057th in Forbes list of global billionaires.

On February 26th, 2020, with a wealth of RMB 654.38+000 billion, Shimao Shenzhen-Hong Kong International Center ranked the 2000th in the Hurun Global Rich List in 2020.

On April 7, 2020, he was ranked1730th in the 2020 Forbes Global Billionaires List with a wealth of12 billion US dollars.

Anecdotes of characters

Resign and come back

In June 2005, he resigned as CEO of TSMC and handed over power to his successor Cai. After Cai took office, he only existed as a "spiritual leader". Besides meeting with senior executives regularly, he also spends more time on lectures, reading books and his favorite classical music and culture.

In June 2009, four years after resigning as CEO of TSMC, Zhang Zhongmou, 78, was re-appointed as CEO of TSMC and concurrently served as the current chairman. Cai, the former CEO, was transferred as the general manager of the newly established "new business organization", reporting directly to. Zhang Zhongmou said that TSMC used to focus on OEM, but the growth of semiconductor industry slowed down. After three years, it can only return to the level of 2008 at most, even if the economy is slightly better in the future, the growth will be limited. In order to find the way to grow in the future, it is decided to establish one or more "new enterprises" and leave them to Cai. Because of the importance of new business, "the best managers must be sent to give their lives".

Half-guide godfather

Zhang Zhongmou is a person who can define an industry.

Before him, no one in the integrated circuit industry talked about OEM. How can IC OEM? I'll help you produce integrated circuits? No, all the ICs are made by ourselves. Intel sets up its own factory and makes its own IC and chips. However, Zhang Zhongmou said that IC design and IC manufacturing will be separated in the future, and IC brands will also be separated from IC design and IC manufacturing. We see that PC, PC brand, PC design and PC manufacturing have begun to separate. PC is manufactured by OEM, designed by ODM, such as IBM brand, and then sold by itself. But before 15, he said that the IC is the same and can be branded. Why can IC OEM survive? Because through his production, equipment and investment, the yield, flexibility and quality of production have surpassed those of IC designers. "Intel is good at designing a CPU, but it is not good at producing CPU. My cost is half of his, and my quality is twice of his. I can help you OEM. " When Zhang Zhongmou said this for the first time, basically no one in Taiwan believed it, and no one without foresight would believe it.

Refuse to be a senior minister

2065438+01654381On October 22nd, Zhang Zhongmou declined the invitation of "Vice President" Chen Jianren to be the senior minister of the Presidential Palace. However, since the "Presidential Office" did not update the list, TSMC "had to take the initiative to make a statement". It is rumored that in order to let Zhang Zhongmou, who has American nationality, be the "minister of state affairs", Taiwan's "Presidential Office" specially revised the "Measures for the Selection and Appointment of State Affairs and National Policy Advisers in the Presidential Office" and deleted the provision that "those who lost the nationality of the Republic of China or acquired foreign nationality" should be dismissed, which is the so-called "Zhang Zhongmou Clause". However, Tsai Ing-Wen's "hot face" encountered a "cold ass".

Social assessment

He can define an industry and is the most cutting-edge figure in the world. Why can AMD compete with Intel? AMD has much less money than Intel, but AMD can compete with Intel. It's important to have someone like Zhang Zhongmou. Because AMD only needs well-designed products, it is designed in comparison with Intel and made by TSMC and Intel in Zhang Zhongmou. Intel has to design and manufacture itself, and the designers have to raise it themselves, and then they have to put it into production, because the equipment has been going up from appropriation, development and loan. AMD designed it, TSMC made it and made it with Intel. In the end, because the manufacturing cost of Intel is twice that of TSMC, and the quality is worse than other companies, Intel's manufacturing has become a burden for Intel. Intel's brand is an asset and design is an asset, but Intel's manufacturing is its burden; AMD's design is also very good, TSMC's manufacturing is very cheap, and it can bite Intel and play its own brand. This is how the whole strategy was formed. TSMC in Zhang Zhongmou is so much cheaper than Intel, and its gross profit can reach 50%. He defined an industry and saved the whole island of Taiwan Province Province. What attracts the world's attention in Taiwan Province Province is not the PC industry, but the IC industry.

Personal idea

After finishing high school in mainland China, he went to Taiwan Province Province and then to the United States. He studied at Harvard University with a bachelor's degree, MIT with a master's degree and Stanford University with a doctor's degree. Three of the best schools in America have read him. There is a passage in his autobiography that touched me very much. He said that of all the books he has read, the one that impressed him the most was an introduction to British and American classical literature, a course he took in his freshman year. He said that when he first arrived in the United States and didn't know much about English, he began to read British and American classics, Shakespeare, Roman epics and Homer's epics, just like a foreigner who just arrived in China, he read Mencius and The Book of Songs to him in his freshman year. So he studies hard. As a result, he took this course, which left him the deepest impression and gave him a kind of care and love for people. He thinks this is the most important lesson in his whole learning process. Later, I gradually realized this sentence, because people who like literature have developed right brains.

social influence

Why did studying English and American literature have a particularly deep influence on him? There is a big truth in this. As a leader-a leader is also a person. You have to have special feelings for people and be particularly moved by them to guide them. So Zhang Zhongmou is particularly touching. He is famous for his strictness in TSMC. He is very strict. People often have meetings with him with stomach medicine, because asking a few questions will break out in a cold sweat, and he will take out the report with a bang and get it himself. But in fact, he is a person with a developed right brain and special feelings for people. People with developed right brains prefer to read British and American classical literature, and are easily moved and moved. So we need to train the right brain. The size of the right brain determines whether you can become a leader. Remember that my sentence is correct. Whether you can become a leader or not depends on your right brain. Whether you can become a manager depends on your left brain.

Personality assessment

He is the founder of TSMC, the world's largest integrated circuit service manufacturer, and the "father of semiconductors" in Taiwan Province Province. He initiated the concept of professional OEM, and the principle of "only OEM, not competing with customers" was his creed, which benefited the economy of Taiwan Province Province and indirectly hatched Hon Hai Group of Guo Taiming. In the commonwealth magazine Benchmark Enterprise Award of Taiwan Province, TSMC ranked first in a row 1 1 year. CNN evaluated him as a symbol of the economic rise of Taiwan Province Province, and the most important reason why the economy of Taiwan Province Province has not yet gone bankrupt. 20 1 1 year, TSMC ranks first in the global wafer foundry market. (New Weekly Review)