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Digitimes October 19, 2026 By Rodney Chan neutral

The road not taken Part 2 of 2: TSMC's first CTO said no to Intel twice but still wonders what if

TSMCIntelAI / LLMSemiconductorsManufacturing
Chenming Hu co-invented the FinFET transistor with colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley, in the 1990s and became TSMC's first chief technology officer in 2001. Decades earlier, as a graduate student, he was invited by Intel co-founder Andy Grove to join Intel, and turned him down.
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