Zhang Zhongmou, founder of TSMC, believes that free trade is dyingThe chip industry has entered different games and expressed support for the slow development of the United States for the development of semiconductors in the United States.
Comprehensive Taiwan Liberty Times and Economic Daily reported that Zhang Zhongmou said on Thursday (March 16) in the event in Taiwan's World Magazine: "I want to free trade has not been dead but endangered.The chip industry is not helpful at all. It is a rising cost. The chip was originally omnipresent. It will stop or slow down, which has entered different games. "
Zhang Zhongmou predicts that the semiconductor supply chain will beIt will move towards polarization, which will increase the cost of the chip and cause the chip's omnipotent development trend.
For the United States' promoting semiconductor -related industrial policies, Zhang Zhongmou believes that this move is to make the development of semiconductors in mainland China slowly.Zhang Zhongmou also said that the semiconductor manufacturing technology of mainland China lands behind Taiwan for about five to six years.
Zhang Zhongmou said in the journey of looking back at the establishment of TSMC that with the support of then Li Guoding, then the administrative member of the Executive Yuan, the Taiwan government finally invested 48 % of the company's equity.
Zhang Zhongmou also said that in the seventh year after the establishment of TSMC, after being listed in Taiwan in 1994, the government immediately sold all the company's shares, saying that the government could not sell it immediately.
