Dr. Fu-Chieh Hsu was appointed as TSMC's Vice President/deputy head of Research and Development in December 2009 and concurrently supervises TSMC's Design and Technology Platform. Dr. Hsu has served as TSMC's Vice President of Design and Technology Platform since March 2006.

Dr. Hsu founded Monolithic System Technology Inc. (MoSys) in 1991 and served as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer until retiring at the end of 2004. He was Chairman and President of Myson Technology Inc. (now Myson Century Inc.) from 1990 to 1991. Prior to that, Dr. Hsu worked at Integrated Device Technology Inc. as Chief Technology Officer and Vice President as well as other senior positions. Dr. Hsu also served at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories.

Dr. Hsu has published or contributed to more than 40 papers and also holds 55 U.S. patents. Dr. Hsu received his Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University in 1978, and Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer sciences from University of California, Berkeley, in 1981 and 1983, respectively.