TSMC is one of the top 20 companies in current times, with total resources nearing trillions.   In a way they control the world, and probably one reason why China wants to invade Taiwan.   
From being a failure to pass PhD at MIT,  Morris Chang became a worker at Texas Instrument.  He eventually became a VP for semiconductor at Texas Instrument.  At 55, he resigned from TI to head Taiwan's semiconductor factor y.  And never looked back.
TSMC has end to end facility:   design and manufacturing of microchips.  
They left behind some of the US biggies in semicon:   AMD and  Intel.
There are many Filipino execs expatriate who have worked at Semicon.  Can we have our own Morris Chang?