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Aart de Geus
Aart de Geus is a Dutch-born technology executive who co-founded Synopsys in 1986, pioneered commercial logic synthesis, and served as its chief executive for three decades before becoming Executive Chair in 2024.
Adaptec, Inc.
Adaptec, Inc. was a computer storage company, founded in 1981 by Larry Boucher and two colleagues, that became the dominant maker of SCSI host bus adapters and RAID controllers.
Akira Yamamura
Akira Yamamura (山村 章, 1944–2024) was a Japanese business executive who led the semiconductor-equipment group Ferrotec from its 1980 founding, becoming its chairman in 2020.
Alain Rossman
Alain Rossman is a French-educated Silicon Valley technology executive who co-founded chipmaker C-Cube Microsystems in 1988, then founded Unwired Planet, known as the father of WAP, and Vudu.
Alan R. Pearlman
Alan R. Pearlman (1925–2019) was an American engineer who founded ARP Instruments in 1969, whose synthesizers outsold Moog by the mid-1970s before the company's 1981 bankruptcy.
Alvin B. Phillips
Alvin B. Phillips (1929–2018) was an American semiconductor executive who founded Western Digital in Southern California in 1970 and served as its president until 1976, before the company pivoted to storage.
Alvin Kaplan
Alvin Kaplan is an American semiconductor engineer who co-founded LSI Computer Systems in Melville, New York, with Attila Tetik in 1969, designing custom mixed-signal integrated circuits.
AMEC
AMEC (中微公司) is a Shanghai semiconductor equipment maker founded in 2004 by Gerald Yin Zhiyao, known for plasma etch tools serving chip lines down to 3nm.
Andrzej J. Strojwas
Andrzej J. Strojwas is an electrical engineer and Carnegie Mellon professor emeritus who co-founded PDF Solutions, the semiconductor yield-analytics company, and serves as its Chief Technology Officer.
Anirudh Devgan
Anirudh Devgan is a technology executive who has served as president and CEO of Cadence Design Systems since 2021, after leading its research and development from 2012.
Anji Microelectronics
Anji Microelectronics (安集科技) is a Shanghai semiconductor materials company founded in 2004 by returnee scientist Wang Shumin, listed on the STAR Market in 2019 and known for CMP slurries.
Annapurna Labs
Annapurna Labs is an Israeli chip design company founded in 2011, acquired by Amazon in 2015, that designs AWS's Graviton server processors and Trainium AI accelerators.
Apple in China
Apple in China describes Apple's two-way dependence on China: most iPhones are assembled there, Chinese consumers account for about 17% of sales, and diversification into India and Vietnam is under way.
APsystems
APsystems (昱能科技) is a Chinese manufacturer of microinverters and module-level power electronics for solar, founded in 2010 in Jiaxing, Zhejiang, and listed on the Shanghai STAR Market.
Arm China
Arm China, formally Arm Technology (China) Co. Ltd. (安谋科技), is the independent Chinese joint venture that licenses Arm's semiconductor technology and collects royalties in China.
Arteris
Arteris, Inc. is a Campbell, California-based semiconductor IP company founded in 2004 and listed on Nasdaq as AIP; its network-on-chip interconnect technology has shipped in more than 4 billion chips and chiplets.
Arthur Wu
Arthur Wu (吴传福, Wu Chuan-fu) is a Taiwanese engineer who founded Proxene Tools in Taichung in 1984, building it into Asia's largest maker of industrial adjustable wrenches.
ASM International
ASM International is a Dutch semiconductor equipment maker founded by Arthur del Prado in 1968, based in Almere, holding over 55% of the atomic layer deposition market.
Atheros Communications
Atheros Communications was a California developer of wireless chipsets, founded in 1998 by Stanford's Teresa Meng and John Hennessy, and acquired by Qualcomm in 2011 for $3.1 billion.
Atmel
Atmel Corporation was an American semiconductor company in San Jose, California, founded by George Perlegos in 1984 and known for its AVR microcontrollers; Microchip Technology acquired it in 2016.
Attila Tetik
Attila Tetik is a semiconductor executive who co-founded LSI Computer Systems in Melville, New York, in 1969 with Alvin Kaplan after developing CPU circuits for Control Data Corporation.
Avigdor Willenz
Avigdor Willenz, also known as Avi Willenz, is an Israeli semiconductor entrepreneur who co-founded Galileo Technology, sold to Marvell for $2.7 billion in 2001, and later chaired Habana Labs.
Bancha Ongkosit
Bancha Ongkosit (บัญชา องค์โฆษิต), born 1951, is a Thai businessman, a former advertising executive who founded KCE Electronics in 1982, a Bangkok maker of printed circuit boards for cars.
Barry Lam
Barry Lam (林百里, born 1949 in Shanghai) is a Taiwanese electronics entrepreneur who founded Quanta Computer in 1988, the world's largest notebook contract manufacturer, and earlier built Kinpo Electronics.
Bernard V. Vonderschmitt
Bernard V. Vonderschmitt was an American engineer who co-founded the chipmaker Xilinx in 1984 and pioneered the fabless model of designing chips without owning factories.
Besta
Besta, formally Inventec Besta Co., Ltd., is a Taipei-based education-electronics company founded in 1989 under the Inventec Group, best known for its BESTA electronic dictionaries.
Bill Carter
Bill Carter, full name William S. Carter, is a retired American semiconductor engineer who was the principal designer of the XC2064, the first commercial FPGA, at Xilinx.
Bill O'Meara
Bill O'Meara (William J. O'Meara) is an American semiconductor executive who co-founded LSI Logic in 1980, led its marketing and sales, and later served as CEO of C-Cube Microsystems.
Bitmain
Bitmain (比特大陆) is a Beijing-founded semiconductor company established in October 2013 by Jihan Wu and Micree Zhan that makes ANTMINER digital currency mining servers and Sophon AI chips.
Bluespec
Bluespec is a high-level hardware description language built on guarded atomic actions (rules), whose compiler synthesizes designs into standard Verilog, with two interchangeable syntaxes, BSV and BH.