Amazing Liang Mong Song help SMIC surpasses TSMC, driving China’s Tech Ambitions

When Asian makers make dramatic advances, there’s often a common semiconductor element: Berkeley-educated Liang Mong Song. After the US passed the Chip Act, US media began to dig into the reasons for the rapid progress of SMIC’s process, and reported Liang Mong Song in depth, saying that Liang is often behind all the great advances made by Asian semiconductor manufacturers. Five years ago, Liang Mong Song began to serve as CEO of SMIC. In 2015, when South Korea’s Samsung Electronics announced that the company had successfully developed the world’s most advanced 14-nanometer process, it caused a shock in the technology world. And this summer, China’s Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation made a splash in the same space, as news broke that the company had also made a huge leap. TechInsights Inc., an industry analyst firm, said SMIC made chips on a 7-nanometer process for a bitcoin mining company. Both incidents involved a man named Liang Mong Song. He was a legendary engineer in the chip industry, but little known to the outside world. Liang Mong Song, 70, was the head of Samsung Electronics’ chip development business when it made a breakthrough, and now he is in charge of SMIC’s technology business in Shanghai. Earlier in his career, he was also one of the stars behind the rise of TSMC. In 2003, TSMC successfully developed a 130-nanometer copper process a year earlier than IBM, ranking first in the world. TSMC listed Liang as the second engineer in charge at the press conference, after his then-boss Jiang Shangyi. Liang Mong Song is a chip wizard with boundless mana, and he always has the magic to let the laggards win the championship. Hi! Welcome to Tech Teller. Before we start today’s video, please subscribe to our channel, which is the encouragement that we can create more videos. In today’s video, let’s get closer to the legendary life of TSMC’s Renegade Genius- Liang Mong Song.