After TSMC made the decision to develop this technology itself, in order to speed up the work, the company not only recruited a team that included component expert Carlos Diaz, lithography specialist Burn J. Lin and Denny D. Deng, author of basic research on bipolar transistors, as well as American semiconductor R & D experts, it developed a common fabrication process and, focusing on the individual customer, created tailor-made applied processes.
為了走自行研發的路，台積電不僅延攬了包括元件專家卡羅斯、微影學大師林本堅、在雙載子電晶體提出基本論文的鄧端理等人，及美國半導體研發高手，並開發通用型製程，再針對客戶量身訂做各類應用製程。