TSMC founder Morris Chang offered top job to Jensen Huang, memoir shows

* HT Image Chang revealed offer in autobiography published on Friday * Book also chronicles TSMC's dealings with major customers By Wen-Yee Lee TAIPEI, - TSMC's founder Morris Chang asked Nvidia's Jensen Huang to consider becoming the chief executive of the Taiwanese chip giant more than a decade ago, but was turned down in just 10 minutes, Chang says in a new volume of autobiography. The second volume of Chang's autobiography covers his 25 years at Texas Instruments and the founding of TSMC in 1987, after the first, about his early life, was published in 1998. Chang also describes his friendship of more than two decades with Huang, who has turned California-based Nvidia into one of the world's most valuable companies amid a surge of interest in artificial intelligence. While he wished the effort luck, Chang said Intel's long-standing business model, focusing on the in-house production of its own chip products, could make such a move hard, given foundries makes chips designed by other companies.