Chang got a foothold at another early leader, Texas Instruments, and says by the mid-1980s he had identified foundry services as a future industry need.

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It depicts a foundry worker pouring molten iron - an industry, along with coal, which features prominently in the history of Shotts.

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It costs Intel, the industry giant, several billion dollars to build a foundry to make new-generation computer chips.

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