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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.
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.
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.
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.
Chen Lu (semiconductor entrepreneur)
Chen Lu (陈鲁), born 1977, is a Chinese semiconductor-equipment entrepreneur who founded Skyverse Technology, a Shenzhen maker of wafer inspection and metrology equipment listed on the STAR Market in 2023.
Chen Tianshi
Chen Tianshi (陈天石), born in 1985, is a Chinese computer scientist who co-founded Cambricon Technologies in 2016 and leads the Beijing AI chip designer, becoming China's first AI chip billionaire in 2025.
Chen Weiliang
Chen Weiliang (陈维良, born 1976) is a Chinese semiconductor executive who founded the GPU developer MetaX in 2020 after thirteen years as a senior director at AMD Shanghai.
CXMT
CXMT (ChangXin Memory Technologies, 长鑫存储) is a Chinese semiconductor company founded in 2016 in Hefei that makes DRAM memory chips, ranking fourth in global DRAM revenue by 2026 behind Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron.
Dongxin Semiconductor
Dongxin Semiconductor (东芯半导体, Dosilicon) is a Shanghai-based fabless designer of small- and medium-capacity memory chips, including NAND Flash, NOR Flash, DRAM, and MCP products, founded by Jiang Xueming in 2014.
GigaDevice
GigaDevice (兆易创新) is a Beijing-based fabless semiconductor company founded by Zhu Yiming in 2005, second worldwide in SPI NOR flash and listed in Shanghai since 2016.
Hong Zhou
Hong Zhou (洪洲) is a Chinese GPU design engineer who serves as chief technology officer and executive director of Shanghai Biren Technology, and formerly led Huawei HiSilicon's self-developed GPU team.
Hu Yahua
Hu Yahua (胡亚华) is a Chinese engineer and businessman who co-founded Changsha Jingjia Microelectronics, a Changsha-based maker of military graphics display-control products and domestic GPU chips.
Huang Xu
Huang Xu (黄旭) is a Chinese semiconductor executive who co-founded Rockchip Electronics, a Fuzhou-based fabless designer of intelligent application processor SoCs, in November 2001, holding a 43% founding stake.
Hwatsing Technology
Hwatsing Technology, also known as Hua Hai Qing Ke, is a Tianjin-based Chinese semiconductor equipment maker, founded in 2013 as a Tsinghua University spin-off for CMP tools.
Jiang Xueming
Jiang Xueming (蒋学明), born 1961, is a Chinese semiconductor entrepreneur and former Jiangsu textile magnate who founded the Shanghai memory chip designer Dosilicon in 2014.
Jingjia Micro
Jingjia Micro (景嘉微) is a Chinese fabless chip designer in Changsha, Hunan, founded in 2006, whose JM5400 of 2014 was China's first fully self-owned GPU chip.
John Zhong
Zhong Peifeng (钟培峰), also known as John Zhong, is a Chinese-American semiconductor executive, born in 1963, who founded the Shanghai chip designer Amlogic in 2003 and serves as its chairman.
Kong Dehai
Kong Dehai (孔德海) is a Chinese chip designer who co-founded and co-leads the Shanghai GPU company Lisuan Tech, after more than 20 years in Silicon Valley chip development.
Li Xinrong
Li Xinrong (李新荣), also known as Allen Lee, is a semiconductor executive who spent 15 years at AMD and has been co-CEO of Biren Technology since 2021.
Lü Guangquan
Lü Guangquan (吕光泉, born 1965) is a Chinese-American semiconductor equipment engineer and chairman of Piotech, a Shenyang maker of thin-film deposition equipment, after a twenty-year career at Novellus and AIXTRON.
Lu Xinchun
Lu Xinchun (路新春, born 1966) is a Cheung Kong Scholar professor at Tsinghua University and founder of Hwatsing Technology, China's leading supplier of 12-inch CMP equipment for chip manufacturing.
MetaX Integrated Circuits Shanghai
MetaX Integrated Circuits (沐曦股份), known as Muxi, is a Shanghai fabless developer of general-purpose GPUs for AI training, inference, and graphics, co-founded in September 2020 by three AMD veterans.
Micree Zhan
Micree Zhan (Zhan Ketuan, 詹克团) is a Chinese chip designer who cofounded Bitmain Technologies, the world's largest bitcoin mining machine maker, in 2013, and later founded the AI chip company Sophgo.
Montage Technology (semiconductor company)
Montage Technology (澜起科技) is a Shanghai-based fabless semiconductor company, founded in 2004, that designs memory interface and interconnect chips for cloud computing and AI infrastructure.
Newave Semiconductor
Newave Semiconductor (新涛科技) was a fabless semiconductor company founded in 1997 that designed mixed-signal communication chips in Shanghai, and was acquired by IDT in 2001 for about $80 million.
Niu Yixin
Niu Yixin (牛一心) is a Chinese semiconductor engineer who co-founded the graphics-chip startup Lisuan Tech in 2021 and serves as its chief technology officer, after 18 years leading GPU development at S3 Graphics.
Pei Zhenhua
Pei Zhenhua (裴振华, born 1959) is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded Suzhou Tianhua Ultra-Clean Technology in 1997 and became one of the earliest outside investors in CATL.
Peng Li
Peng Li (彭莉, born 1978) is a Chinese chip engineer who co-founded the Shanghai GPU maker MetaX in 2020 and serves as its chief technology officer and chief hardware architect.
Piotech
Piotech Inc. (拓荆科技), also known as PNC Process Systems, is a Chinese maker of thin-film deposition equipment for chip fabrication, founded in Shenyang in 2010 and STAR Market listed in 2022.
Qian Jun
Qian Jun (钱军) is a Chinese chip-design executive and co-founder and CEO of Vastai Technologies, a Shanghai AI chip developer founded in 2018, after a decade at AMD.