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Morris Chang

CEO and Founder of TSMC, Tsmc Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing

Search every verified Morris Chang interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Morris Chang, founder of TSMC, has spoken extensively in recent interviews and public appearances about the state of the semiconductor industry, geopolitical tensions, and the challenges facing major chip companies. In a February 2025 interview, Chang discussed Intel's struggles, saying that former CEO Pat Gelsinger's strategy appeared to focus on the foundry business rather than AI, and that in hindsight Intel "perhaps should have focused on AI." He also commented on Intel's CEO selection process, stating that "whoever speaks well, they adopt their strategy — I think this is not a good practice." Regarding Samsung, Chang described its past pursuit of the memory business as a "deadly mix of ambition and temptation," and said that collaborating with Samsung is like dealing with "an unknown devil." He also revealed that in 2013 he had approached Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about becoming TSMC's CEO, but that Huang declined, and noted that TSMC could not have allowed Huang to retain his 7.5% stake in Nvidia due to potential conflicts of interest. Chang has also addressed the broader geopolitical landscape affecting the semiconductor supply chain. In a 2024 speech at MIT, he argued that "deviations from free-market, free-trade globalization — industrial policy, subsidization, and reshoring — will make the world chip industry less efficient and less resilient," while acknowledging that "national security considerations, of course, override everything." In a separate discussion with Alibaba's Joe Tsai, Chang said that the "immediate purpose of decoupling is to slow China down — especially in chips — and I think it's doing that," but added that "ultimately I believe it will be harmful to everybody, because the world would progress faster if we all worked together." He has also expressed concern about the risk of hot conflict between the world's two largest economies, stating that he hopes they "don't somehow accidentally or by purpose get into a hot conflict."

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