Liang Mong Song (梁孟松) was one of TSMC’s founding geniuses.

Unquestionably brilliant but scathingly difficult to work with, he rose through TSMC’s ranks for nearly two decades.

Then he defected to South Korea to work for the company's biggest and fiercest competitor: Samsung.

In doing so, he near single-handedly pushed Samsung to overtake and overthrow the Taiwanese chip giant.

Most Western media seem to skip over TSMC's history after its founding. I think what happened between then and now is just as enthralling.

In this video, we are going to look at one of the company's most dramatic events: the defection of Liang Mong-song.

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