Morris Chang’s life is the story of modern Asia — and, in many ways, of modern civilization itself. Born amid the collapse of Republican China, educated in the industrial optimism of postwar America, and reborn in the laboratories of Taiwan, Chang carried the twentieth century’s trauma into the twenty-first century’s precision.

The Precisionist traces his journey from the bomb shelters of Chongqing to the immaculate fabs of Hsinchu Science Park, where he founded TSMC — the company that now underwrites the world’s technology and Taiwan’s independence. Through him, we see how exile became design, how order replaced ideology, and how the discipline of yield quietly shaped the global balance of power.

This is not just a story about semiconductors. It is about the evolution of competence itself — about how one man’s obsession with doing things right became the architecture of the digital age.

In an era of speed and spectacle, The Precisionist reminds us that the future is not invented overnight; it is built — slowly, meticulously, and with faith in process.

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