Liang Mong Song
Co-CEO, SMIC
After 17 years at TSMC, he helped rival Samsung beat TSMC to 14nm chips, then became co-CEO of China's SMIC.
- Born
- 1952, Taiwan
- Now
- Co-Chief Executive Officer, SMIC
- Studied
- UC Berkeley, National Cheng Kung University
Interesting facts
- Detour
To sit out his TSMC non-compete, he spent 2010 as a visiting professor at Samsung-owned Sungkyunkwan University, actually teaching at Samsung's in-house chip institute.
en.wikipedia.org - Turning point
Passed over for TSMC's R&D vice president job in the 2005 leadership change, he left the company in 2009 after 17 years.
en.wikipedia.org - First
At Samsung he is credited with helping it reach 14nm FinFET chips before his former employer TSMC.
en.wikipedia.org - Numbers
Credited as inventor on nearly 500 TSMC patents, and was one of the company's so-called Six Knights of R&D.
en.wikipedia.org - Numbers
In a 2020 letter he said he had led a team of more than 2,000 engineers that completed SMIC's 7nm chip process.
livemint.com - Before AI
Before TSMC he worked as an engineer at AMD on memory chips.
asiatimes.com
Career
- SMICCo-Chief Executive Officer2017 to now
- SamsungChief Technology Officer, System LSI; EVP Foundry, System LSI2011–2015
- Sungkyunkwan UniversityVisiting Professor2010–2011
- National Tsing Hua UniversityProfessor of Electrical Engineering2009–2010
- TSMCSenior R&D Director1992–2009
- AMDEngineeruntil 1992
Education
- PhD, Electrical engineering, UC Berkeley, 1984
- MS, Electrical engineering, National Cheng Kung University
- BS, Electrical engineering, National Cheng Kung University
