Win Semiconductors chairman and president Dennis Chin-Tsai Chen (pictured), discusses his business philosophy with Jack Huang, founder and chairman, Taiwan Renaissance Platform
Once facing bankruptcy, Taiwan-based wafer contract manufacturer Win Semiconductors is now the world’s largest gallium arsenide (GaAs) foundry semiconductor company with a market capitalisation growth of 640% in eight years. Having partnered global first-tier manufacturers and mastered the technical blueprint for the next decade, how is Win planning to take it to the next level and maintain its lead?
Win Semiconductors chairman and president Dennis Chin-Tsai Chen, discusses his business philosophy over the past two decades.
Huang: Win Semiconductors was founded in 1999, and at that time, the market was dominated by global companies, and there were many newcomers and the competition was fierce. Soon after [in the early 2000s], the infamous tunnelling fraud involving chipmaker Procomp Informatics took place. In addition, Win Semiconductors was losing NT$1bn ($28.8m at contemporary rates) a year and was in a precarious situation.
In 2003, you took over the management of the company and…
