張忠謀談前妻 像瓊瑤「庭院深深」

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In my posting of yesterday in 美国新闻 titled "Pat Gelsinger Spoke," I add:

Note:
(a)
(i) Dan Nystedt, Chip War: Building fabs all over the world is not enough. Taipei: Commonwealth Magazine 天下雜誌, Mar 19, 2023 (op-ed)
https://english.cw.com.tw/article/article.action?id=3395
("About the Author[:] Dan Nystedt is a research analyst at TriOrient Investments Ltd [三東投資有限公司, set up by Taiwanese and based in Taipei], a private company. He has lived in the Greater China region for over 20-years, first as a Chinese language student in Tainan, Taiwan, then a journalist for media including the Wall Street Journal, prior to joining TriOrient")
(ii)
(A) Nystedt is said to be Swedish surname, meaning unclear.
(B) German toponymy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_toponymy
("-stadt, -stedt, -stätt, or -stetten ('settlement,' 'town,' 'place;' cf. English stead [which descended from Old English noun masculine stede place]). Examples [of place name, not persons' name]: Darmstadt, Eichstätt, Ingolstadt, Neustadt")

(b) A die is a chip.
(i)
(A) Read etymology of dice (as verb, meaning cutting into cube) which came from dice (as noun, plural of die)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dice
(B) die (n): "plural dice : a small cube marked on each face with from one to six spots and used usually in pairs in various games and in gambling by being shaken and thrown to come to rest at random on a flat surface —often used figuratively in expressions concerning chance or the irrevocability of a course of action   <the die was cast>"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/die
(ii) dice. Online Etymology Dictionary, undated
https://www.etymonline.com/word/dice
says the same thing, that dice as a noun ("early 14c") came before dice as a verb ("late 14c").

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(1) 陳依旻 (Yahoo財經特派記者), 張忠謀談和前妻離婚…像瓊瑤「庭院深深」：寂寞更深. Yahoo! 奇摩, Dec 9, 2024.
https://tw.stock.yahoo.com/news/張忠謀談和前妻離婚像瓊瑤「庭院深深」：寂寞更深-082041148.html

(2) "張忠謀新書自傳下冊於11月底上市，今日 [Dec 9, 2024] 盛大舉行新書發表會 [which lasted 15 minutes and is available in videos at YouTube]，張忠謀透露自己年輕時有「想當作家的夢」，但17歲時因父親一句「當作家會餓肚子」，作家夢因此碎裂。不過，張忠謀透露，書中許多章節，都可以看到「作家夢的碎片」。": from the Web.
(3) first wife: Christine Chen Chang (July 10, 1931 - July 1, 2009 (age 77); married Morris Chang 1952, (officially) divorced 1991) lived in Dallas, TX when she died (where Texas Instruments is headquartered). There seems to be no Chinese name, which hinted that she was born in America.