Chip prodigy Da Bo returns to China after his role in TSMC’s 3nm plant in Japan

A Chinese chip pioneer who made his name in Japan – sweeping its top awards and developing the core components of the world’s most advanced production line – has returned to China, along with his team of researchers.Da Bo, a semiconductor prodigy whose research underpins TSMC’s 3-nanometre chip production line in Japan, is listed on the China" class="entity-link entity-location" data-entity-id="23976" data-entity-type="location">University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) website as a chair professor at the School of Engineering Science.Da joined Japan’s National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in 2013 – when he arrived as a postdoctoral student after completing his PhD at USTC. He said in an interview published on May 20 by Chinese news website Deeptech that his goal was very clear.