Major Apple Inc supplier and iPhone assembler Foxconn stated it had employed Chiang Shang-yi, a former prime govt at Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC and Chinese language chipmaker SMIC, to steer its rising push within the chip enterprise.
Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics maker, is finest recognized for assembling iPhones and different Apple merchandise, although lately it has been increasing into chips to diversify its enterprise.
It purchased a chip plant from Taiwan chipmaker Macronix Worldwide final 12 months and in September introduced a three way partnership with India’s Vedanta Ltd to arrange semiconductor and show manufacturing vegetation there.
Foxconn stated in an announcement that Chiang had been appointed its semiconductor technique officer, a newly created position.
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The corporate stated his deep expertise within the business would offer “invaluable help” and technical steerage for the group’s world semiconductor deployment technique.
“We’re grateful to have such a seasoned semiconductor veteran be part of us at this essential juncture within the group’s growth,” Foxconn Chairman Liu Younger-way added within the assertion.
Chiang beforehand labored as vice chairman of analysis and growth at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC), the world’s largest contract chipmaker.
He was extra lately the vice chairman of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC), the most important and most superior chipmaker in China.
Chiang resigned from his place at SMIC final November, roughly a 12 months after becoming a member of the corporate for the second time.
His transfer to China was controversial given Taiwan’s concern about dropping chip expertise to its large neighbour, which has struggled to recreate the island’s success at making semiconductors.
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