TSMC appoints two executives as Co-COOs, passing the baton on

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) Board of Directors held a special meeting on February 29 and approved the appointment of Senior Vice President of R&D Y.J. Mii and Senior Vice President of Operations Y.P. Chin as Executive Vice Presidents and Co-Chief Operating Officers of TSMC.

The last time TSMC appointed Co-COOs were Shang-yi Chiang, C.C. Wei, and Mark Liu from March 2012 to 2013. After Chiang's retirement in October 2013, Liu and Wei were both promoted to be co-CEOs. Therefore, this latest promotion has signified that Mii and Chin have been chosen to become potential candidates for TSMC's future helmsmen.

Y.J. Mii is the Senior Vice President of Research and Development (R&D) at TSMC. Mii joined TSMC in 1994 as a manager at Fab 3 and then joined the company's R&D organization in 2001. In 2011, he was appointed Vice President of Research and Development and later he was promoted to Senior Vice President in November 2016.

In more than two decades of services at TSMC, Mii has made significant contributions to the development and manufacturing of advanced CMOS technologies in both Fab Operations and R&D. He successfully managed the development of 90nm, 40nm, and 28nm technologies. By spearheading the research and development of 16nm, 7nm, 5nm, and beyond, he has helped maintain TSMC's technology leadership in the foundry segment of the global semiconductor industry. $Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM.US)$