Profile of Kim Choong-Ki, a professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, who is revered as the godfather of South Korea's chip industry (Dong-Won Kim/IEEE Spectrum)

Dong-Won Kim / IEEE Spectrum:
Profile of Kim Choong-Ki, a professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, who is revered as the godfather of South Korea's chip industry  —  They were called “Kim's Mafia.”  Kim Choong-Ki himself wouldn't have put it that way.  But it was true what semiconductor engineers …