TAIWAN'S NEW DREAMS

摘要

At the depth of the global economic crisis, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. was in trouble. With factories operating at just a fraction of capacity, Morris Chang-TSMC's silver-haired founder-laid off hundreds of staffers, ordered the remaining work-rners to take unpaid leave, and took other cost-cutting steps such as dimming the lights in hallways. "It was terrible," Chang says in his office on the eighth floor of "Fab 12," a vast facility that serves as TSMC's headquarters.