Former Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) chairman Mark Liu (劉德音) has been appointed to the board of directors of US-based dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chip supplier Micron Technology Inc.
Liu’s role is to focus on boosting the firm’s artificial intelligence (AI) development, the US company said.
Micron chairman, president and chief executive officer Sanjay Mehrotra in a statement released on Wednesday described Liu as a visionary leader with technical expertise and business acumen from his 30 years at TSMC.
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“He [Liu] has decades of experience leading one of the world’s most advanced and sophisticated semiconductor companies, with fab operations at the largest scale,” Mehrotra said. “His experience will help guide Micron as we scale our business to address the growing opportunities unleashed by AI — from the data center to the edge.”
Liu is also the founder and chairman of multistrategy investment fund J&M Copper Beech Ventures.
He also founded the Technology Competitiveness and Industrial Policy Center at the University of California, Berkeley, to advise policymakers and lawmakers on enhancing the competitiveness of the US tech industry.
The former TSMC chairman began his career at Intel Corp before moving to AT&T Bell Laboratories, where he conducted fundamental research on high-speed electronics.
Liu then joined TSMC in 1993 and was responsible for building the company’s first eight-inch and 12-inch fabs.
He held increasingly key leadership positions, including senior vice president from 2004 to 2012, cochief operations officer from 2012 to 2013, president and cochief executive officer from 2013 to 2018 and executive chairman from 2018 until his retirement from TSMC in June last year, where he was succeeded by C.C. Wei (魏哲家).
Liu’s other board commitments at Micron include serving on the University of California, Berkeley, Engineering Advisory Board, the company said.
Micron recruited Mark Liu to boost cooperation with TSMC to speed up its high bandwidth memory, Liu Pei-chen (劉佩真), a Taiwan Industry Economics Database researcher, told the Central News Agency.
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