And this brilliant achievement must start from the breakfast report of a soymilk shop 44 years ago. In 1974, Taiwan was dominated by labor-intensive light industry, processing and exporting industry, facing mature industrial development, and the third world. With the rise of the country and a large amount of low-cost labor, Taiwan is in urgent need of finding a turning point in the next generation of industry.
In February of that year, in the Xiaoxinxin Soymilk Shop in Nanyang Street, Taipei, he gathered Taiwan’s heavyweight political and financial figures, including Executive Dean Fei Wei, Economic Minister Sun Yunqi, Director of the General Administration of Communications Fang Xianqi, Minister of Communications Gao Yushu, Industrial and Research Institute Chang Wang Zhaozhen, Director of the Institute of Telecommunications Research, Kang Baohuang, and Pan Wenyuan, Director of the Research Institute of the United States Unlimited Wire and Electric Company (RCA), which develops the IC industry in Taiwan. They have breakfast and breakfast reports, and decided to integrate with Taiwan's industrial transformation direction. As a blueprint for industrial development, circuit technology outlines Taiwan's vision for transforming high-tech industries in the future, and decides to seek partners from the United States to introduce integrated circuit research and development, manufacturing, packaging and testing technologies to achieve timeliness.
Subsequently, Pan Wenyuan convened overseas scholars to form an Electronic Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) in the United States, and selected RCA as a technology transfer partner, selected to introduce complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology in integrated circuits, while working The Institute established the Electronic Industry Research and Development Center (later expanded to the Institute of Electronics) as the executive unit of the Integrated Circuits Program.
In April 1976, a team of 19 people recruited and trained to the United States to bring integrated circuit technology back to Taiwan. The success of the RCA program has enabled the society and the people to discover that Taiwan has the ability to develop its own technology and then move to the development of high-tech industries. The goal. In October 1977, ITRI built the first integrated circuit demonstration plant in Taiwan, and the talents who were trained in the United States returned to China for production and R&D. The demonstration plant uses a 7.5 micron process and the product yield is the sixth in operation. The monthly rate is as high as 70%, which is much higher than the RCA of the technology transfer mother factory. The result is beyond expectations.
In order to industrialize technology into technology, it was decided in 1980 to set up UMC, the first semiconductor manufacturing company in Taiwan, as a spin-off company, and to transfer 4 wafer technology, as well as engineers from the Institute of Electronics Industry, ITRI. Assisted UMC in R&D and manufacturing, including Cao Xingcheng, who later served as Chairman of UMC.
Later, the United States, Japan, South Korea and other countries saw that the impact of integrated circuits on national development was significant, and they actively invested in international protection technology. In 1984, ITRI took over the "VLSI" program and invested in R&D. Zhang Zhongmou, who served as the global vice president of Texas Instruments, served as the dean of the Industrial Research Institute. The first 6-inch integrated circuit experimental plant in Taiwan was completed in 1986, with the support of Zhang Zhongmou and the support of the then political councilor Li Guoding, 1987 Established Taiwan IC Manufacturing Company, transferred equipment and talents of VLSI plan to TSMC, and created a professional foundry model.
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