Chen, John

John Y. Chen has been the Corporate Vice President of Technology and Foundry Management at NVIDIA Corporation since 2004.  Prior to that, Dr. Chen spent 10 years at TSMC.  He created and ran the R&D at TSMC, Taiwan. Subsequently, he built and ran fab operations of WaferTech in Camas, WA, then served as the Vice President of Business Development in the last year at WaferTech.

Earlier in his career at Hughes Research Lab and Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, he has contributed more than 100 refereed journal articles, most published by IEEE. He has been invited to give numerous speeches including the plenary speeches in 1996 IEDM and 2009 IEDM, and luncheon speech in 2018 IEDM. He wrote a textbook on “CMOS Devices and Technology for VLSI,” published by Prentice Hall, a part of Simon & Schuster today. He was elected to the IEEE Fellow in 1992 for “leadership in and contributions to CMOS device and process technology”. 

In the 80’s, he has served on the Technical Advisory Board of ITRI/ERSO, the incubator of Taiwan semiconductor industry including TSMC. In 2001, he became the board director of Cascade Inc. (Nasdaq:CSCD) for six years until the company was acquired by FormFactor (Nasdaq:FORM). His recent book on “Leadership in Management” was published by Nova Science Publishers, N.Y. in 2022.

Dr. Chen holds a B.S. in E.E. from National Taiwan University, an M.S. in E.E. from University of Maine, a Ph.D. in E.E. from UCLA, and a master’s degree from the UCLA Executive Engineering Management Program.