Chenming Calvin Hu (Chinese: 胡正明; pinyin: Hú Zhèngmíng; born 12 July 1947[1]) is a Taiwanese-American electronic engineer who specializes in microelectronics.
He is TSMC Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the electronic engineering and computer science department of the University of California, Berkeley.
In 2009, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers described him as a “microelectronics visionary … whose seminal work on metal-oxide semiconductor MOS reliability and device modeling has had enormous impact on the continued scaling of electronic devices”.
[4] Hu was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1997 for contributions to the modeling integration-circuit devices and to the reliability and performance of VLSI systems.
Between 2001 and 2004 Hu was the chief technology officer of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.