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A profile of Dr. Shih Chin-tay, who led Taiwan's foray into chip production in the 1970s after joining the Industrial Technology Research Institute in Hsinchu (Rupert Wingfield-Hayes/BBC)
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Rupert Wingfield-Hayes / BBC:
A profile of Dr. Shih Chin-tay, who led Taiwan’s foray into chip production in the 1970s after joining the Industrial Technology Research Institute in Hsinchu — When 23-year-old Shih Chin-tay boarded a plane for the United States in the summer of 1969, he was flying to a different world.