From what I heard from peers from that era, not significantly.
Taiwan's ITRI gave Morris Chang a blank check to implement his vision, which is something no ambitious person would turn down.
Why become yet another rich but nameless CEO (who remembers Bucy at TI) when you can become the next Jack Kilby or William Shockley.
China did the same thing for Liang Ming Song (former head of R&D at TSMC) at SMIC and India for Randhir Thakur (former head of foundry services at Intel and Applied Materials) at Tata Electronics.
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Stop being so combative to OP - he asked a fair question about the bamboo ceiling.
Looking at you Chollida1, next_xibalba, and Cumpiler69 (classy name /s)
It reads to me like it is you who are being combative by calling me out by (screen)name. It was quite reasonable to find the GP comment inexplicable given that 1) the article doesn't make any explicit or implicit mention of racism, 2) Chang rose to group VP at TI after having had his PhD sponsored by the same company [1], and 3) as you say, he was given an astounding offer by Taiwan. In other words, the leap to racism and racial discourse is quite a big one.
Whether or not you view my comment as combative, I utterly reject your belief that you have the right to police my content or tone. This isn't Reddit.
From what I heard from peers from that era, not significantly.
Taiwan's ITRI gave Morris Chang a blank check to implement his vision, which is something no ambitious person would turn down.
Why become yet another rich but nameless CEO (who remembers Bucy at TI) when you can become the next Jack Kilby or William Shockley.
China did the same thing for Liang Ming Song (former head of R&D at TSMC) at SMIC and India for Randhir Thakur (former head of foundry services at Intel and Applied Materials) at Tata Electronics.
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Stop being so combative to OP - he asked a fair question about the bamboo ceiling.
Looking at you Chollida1, next_xibalba, and Cumpiler69 (classy name /s)