Semiconductors are vital to almost every device. Dutch chipmaker NXP gets €1 billion to design and manufacture this key technology in Europe
They’re all around us, hidden in credit cards, mobile phones, cars and coffee machines. Semiconductors power the technologies we use every day. Few understand them like Maarten Dirkzwager.
In 2005, Dirkzwager was working as an advisor engineer in a tech multinational, when he got a call from one of the general managers, who told him: “I really like what you’ve advised. It’s different from what I had in mind. Why don’t you come work with me in Hong Kong and implement this idea?” And that is how Dirkzwager ended up working on semiconductors in Hong Kong.
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