# Solution Finders Part 2 of 2: TSMC's first CTO said no to Intel twice but still wonders what if — retained record

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source: [news](https://highsignal.app/data/news) (news:digitimes)  published 2026-10-19 08:20 ingested 2026-10-20 02:50

[original source ↗](https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20261019PD218/intel-taiwan-academia-sinica-tsmc-electronics.html)

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Credit: DIGITIMES
Chenming Hu co-invented the FinFET transistor with colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley, in the 1990s and became TSMC's first chief technology officer in 2001...
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