At the end of 2003, this week's magazine interviewed the head of the R&D department of TSMC. The Executive Yuan of Taiwan awarded the TSMC "Outstanding Science and Technology and Talent Award" and presented the award at the Yuanshan Hotel in Taiwan.
At that time, these six people were called TSMC's "Six Knights of R&D". The original photos were from left to right, namely Lin Benjian , Yang Guanglei , Jiang Shangyi, Sun Yuancheng, Liang Mengsong , and Yu Zhenhua.
R&D Six Knights won the award because of the successful development of 0.13 micron manufacturing technology in the past three years, and surpassed the UMC that adopted the cooperation with IBM technology at that time. 0.13 micron is a very important technical node for TSMC to establish its future development, and it is also TSMC. For the first time, it abandoned cooperation with international manufacturers and adopted its own development model, and surpassed international manufacturers. Since then, TSMC has built up confidence and has developed and advanced to its leading position.
Interestingly, after Liang Mengsong later resigned from TSMC, he joined his competitor Samsung Electronics , and turned around to compete with TSMC. Moreover, the two sides went to court. TSMC accused Liang Mengsong of leaking business secrets to his rival South Korea Samsung , and the two parties sued and fought against each other. In the past four years, the Supreme Court finally ruled that TSMC won the case and also banned Liang Mengsong from working at Samsung.
Due to this unpleasant process, only the four digits on the left were left in the photos released by TSMC. Because Liang Mengsong was to be removed, Yu Zhenhua on the far right of the screen was also removed. Yu Zhenhua was invested in the research and development of packaging technology by TSMC. The general is also the only supervisor among the six knights who still stayed at TSMC. Because of Liang Mengsong, he cannot be listed, which is indeed a bit unpredictable.
At that time, Jiang Shangyi specially pulled Liang Mengsong to the front and ranked in the middle of the front row with him. He didn't know much about the reason at that time, but obviously at that moment, Jiang Shangyi should still be sure of Liang Mengsong's contribution to TSMC's R&D department.
Of course, Liang Mengsong later had various grudges and hatreds with TSMC. Later, Jiang Shangyi went to SMIC as vice chairman, which caused protests by Liang Mengsong, the co-executive director of SMIC. It was only later that everyone gradually understood that many media began to become big. The disagreement and competition among these people are depicted in bloody storm.
1, Lin Benjian
Lin Benjian, male, born in 1942 in Vietnam , is from Taiwan, with a ancestral home in Chaoshan, Guangdong, an academician of the US National Academy of Engineering, a member of the " Central Research Institute ", Taiwan Tsinghua University , Taiwan Jiaotong University , Taiwan Jiaotong University , Distinguished Chair Professor of Taiwan University and Director of the Joint R&D Center of Tsinghua University-TSMC.
Lin Benjian obtained a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Taiwan University in 1963; in 1970, he received a doctorate in electrical engineering from Ohio State University in the United States; from 2000 to 2015, he served as a senior director and outstanding academician of science and technology at Taiwan Integral Circuit Manufacturing Co., Ltd. from Taiwan Integral Circuit Manufacturing Co., Ltd. from Taiwan Integral Circuit Manufacturing Co., Ltd. . He was elected as an associate general manager; in 2008 he was elected as an academician of the National Academy of Engineering in Taiwan; in 2014 he was elected as an academician of the "Central Research Institute" in Taiwan; at the end of 2015 he retired from TSMC.
Lin Benjian focuses on the research and development of microfilm technology in semiconductor manufacturing, leading the team to create many globally leading technologies, including 1.25 micron, 1 micron, 0.75 micron, 0.5 micron, and 0.35 micron.
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2, Jiang Shangyi
1946, Jiang Shangyi was born in Chongqing, China. In 1948, my father and his family moved to Taiwan, China. He studied electrical engineering at National Taiwan University. In 1969, I went to Princeton University to study . In 1970, he transferred to , Stanford University, and studied for a doctorate degree.
Jiang Shangyi's first job was to study gallium arsenide laser at ITT company . In 1976, he joined Texas Instruments and was committed to using some innovative technologies to improve the efficiency of solar cells . In 1980, Jiang Shangyi joined HP and conducted research on CMOS, CCD and bipolar technology.
In 1997, Jiang Shangyi joined TSMC as president of R&D.Under the leadership of the Six Gentlemen of Technology represented by him, TSMC eventually became the world's leader in advanced semiconductor process technology. In 2006, Jiang Shangyi retired from TSMC. In 2009, he returned to TSMC and focused on transistor and advanced packaging projects. In 2015, he left TSMC again.
After 2016, Jiang Shangyi was invited to join SMIC and served as vice chairman. Resigned in November 2021.
3, Liang Mengsong
3, Liang Mengsong obtained a bachelor's and master's degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Chenggong University, and then obtained a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and his doctoral supervisor was the professor of the Berkeley Electrical Engineering who was once a technical director of TSMC. Hu Zhengming , the world-renowned inventor of FinFET. After graduation, Liang Mengsong worked in the American processor manufacturer AMD for several years. He joined TSMC in 1992, and he was forty years old that year.
A technology leader who has worked at TSMC for 17 years, Samsung for 8 years, and is 64 years old.
On October 16, 2017, SMIC announced the appointment of Zhao Haijun , Dr. Liang Mengsong as the joint CEO and executive director of SMIC. It will take effect from the 16th, SMIC will start the "double" CEO of CEO The chief system, in the future, Liang Mengsong will be directly responsible and report to the board of directors like Zhao Haijun.
4, Yu Zhenhua
Yu Zhenhua joined the process model of TSMC's R&D department in 1994 The block development unit is responsible for the development of key technologies. It started TSMC's copper process research and development work since 1997 and established Taiwan's first copper process laboratory. In the 0.13 micron battle, Yu Zhenhua's business was transferred to copper conductors and low-dielectric substances. Classified as the "latest stage" process, it was once ignored. It was not until Moore's Law began to gradually slow down that people began to realize the importance of packaging to reduce costs.
In 2009, TSMC began to develop "advanced packaging technology" Afterwards, Zhang Zhongmou was called 400 R&D engineers gave Yu Zhenhua, and Yu Zhenhua successfully developed CoWoS technology two or three years later and further simplified its structure. With the CoWoS, InFO-PoP and TSV technologies developed by Yu Zhenhua, TSMC became the iPhone. 7's exclusive chip supplier. By 2016, more and more high-performance chips began to introduce CoWoS technology, and CoWoS ushered in the dawn of victory. It has to be said that Yu Zhenhua's new technology combines integrated circuits with packaging, The world opens the era of 3D-IC, which has also brought TSMC into a new realm of system integration.
5, Sun Yuancheng
Sun Yuancheng joined TSMC in 1997 and served as director of the Advanced Module Technology Development Department, and later transferred to the Director of the Logic Technology Development Department, 2000 Promoted to Associate, Senior Director, promoted to Deputy General Manager of Research and Development in 2006, retired from TSMC's technical director and deputy general manager in 2019, and is currently the president of the Innovation Research Institute of Yangming Jiaotong University.
During his tenure at TSMC, Sun Yuancheng led advanced process technology successively Blueprint, transforming R&D processes and infrastructure, and independently developing new technologies. At the same time, working with the factory and related teams to transfer generations of new technologies to factory mass production, assisting TSMC from its previous technology followers to now The leader in advanced semiconductor technology.
In addition, Sun Yuancheng's team also formulated energy-saving CMOS SOC system chip technology, including high-speed, shared logic, and low-residual leakage transistor IC platforms to meet the needs of different markets and products, and its advocated low-power CMOS platform has also been adopted by the International Technical Blueprint Committee to formulate technical specifications. Blueprint, open business opportunities for mobile phone and mobile computing applications.
6, Yang Guanglei
Yang Guanglei, male, born in August 1959, American nationality, doctoral degree. He has served as an independent non-executive director of SMIC and a member of remuneration committee.
From 1986 to 2018, he served as a researcher at the Lincoln National Experimental Center of MIT, a senior technician at HP, a senior manager of Singapore Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd., deputy director of R&D of Taiwan Huabang Electronics Co., Ltd., and a large-scale circuit Director of Engineering of the Manufacturing Company and Director of R&D of Taiwan Integrated Circuit Manufacturing Co., Ltd., served as independent non-executive director of SMIC from 2019 to November 2021. Mr. KWANG-LEEIYOUNG (Yang Guanglei) also serves as the non-executive co-founder and director of Yiyi Digital Co., Ltd. and an independent director of Dingheng Digital Technology Co., Ltd.
