Loading . . .Working in chip innovation was not always the plan for Min Cao, vice-president of pathfinding at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC).Cao had dreamed of a career in physics, but after graduating from Stanford University at the end of the cold war, an abundance of out-of-work physicists meant he cast his net more widely. His desire to understand how the world works led him to the rapidly developing field of microchips.“There are still a lot of mysteries,” says Cao, whose...