The road not taken Part 2 of 2: TSMC's first CTO said no to Intel twice but still wonders what if
Chenming Hu co-invented the FinFET transistor with colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley, in the 1990s and became TSMC's first chief technology officer in 2001. Decades earlier, as a graduate student, he was invited by Intel co-founder Andy Grove to join Intel, and turned him down.