Mark Liu

7 min read Mark Liu is chairman of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. H.-S. Philip Wong is a professor in the school of engineering at Stanford University and chief scientist at TSMC. In 1997 the IBM Deep Blue supercomputer defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov. It was a groundbreaking demonstration of supercomputer technology and a first glimpse into how high-performance computing might one day overtake human–level intelligence. In the 10 years that followed, we began