Your city has decided to build a statue or monument to honor a famous person in your country. Who would you choose? Use reasons and specific examples to support your choice. ====================================================================== For me, a person deserving to be honored should contribute to his country or community, or at least, devote himself to certain filed which impacts the society. Therefore, if my city plans to construct a building in honor of someone, I would suggest a technology leader, who has impacted and made some contribution to IC industry in Taiwan. Yes. Morris Chang, the Father of Semiconductor Foundry. Following are the reasons why I choose him as the famous contemporary to be honored. Back to 80’s or 90’s, the time at which the semiconductor industry in Taiwan just began to bloom. The government planed to bring up semiconductor fabrication industry first. They had prepared almost everything, sufficient capital and hardware. However, there was no leader to run an experimental business in Industrial Technology Research Institutes (ITRI) in Hsin-Chiu. So, the Primer Sun decided to persuade Morris to come back to Taiwan, who had rich experience in Texas Instrument (TI). As far as I know, it’s still not easy to earn a job in TI. However Morris gave up the position as a vice president in TI and then came back to Taiwan and led a group in ITRI, developing Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) technology. Soon after, with the government’s aid, he pushed the company to the top one in the world. Even now, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) still occupies almost half of the foundry market and earns Taiwan thousands of money. Besides the economics revenue the company has realized, what really wins my respect is the “cluster effect” of whole Integrated Circuit(IC) industries booming with TSMC, including circuit design, package, fabrication equipment, and further downstream application industry, like PC industry. This effect not only brings more economic benefits to Taiwan, but also raises a lot of science and technology experts in Taiwan. I believe, without these people, IPOD or WII could not be realized so fast. Dreams of mobile phones and one-hundred-dollar notebook for lower class or children in developing countries would be impeded. To sum up, though Morris Chang is just a technology leader in Taiwan, his devotion to development of TSMC and further encouragement of the whole IC industries really impresses me. So, I would select him as an honorablly famous person in this small island. --

※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 140.112.27.111