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LONGi Green Energy
LONGi Green Energy, also known as LONGi Solar (隆基绿能), is a Chinese manufacturer of monocrystalline silicon wafers and solar modules, founded by Li Zhenguo in 2000 and the world's largest monocrystalline silicon maker by 2013.
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 Weibing
Lu Weibing (卢伟冰) is a Chinese technology executive, born in 1975, who ran the phone maker Gionee before joining Xiaomi in 2019, rising to Group President in 2022.
Lü Xiangyang
Lü Xiangyang (吕向阳, born 1962) is a Chinese investor who co-founded BYD in 1995 and founded Rongjie Investment Holding Group, parent of lithium producer Rongjie Co.
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.
Luo Jinhong
Luo Jinhong (骆锦红, born 1967) is a Chinese battery entrepreneur who co-founded lithium battery maker EVE Energy in 2001 and co-controls it with her husband Liu Jincheng.
Luo Liguo
Luo Liguo (罗立国, born 1956) is a Chinese entrepreneur from Zhejiang who founded and chairs Hoshine Silicon Industry, the Shanghai-listed global leader in industrial silicon and siloxanes.
Luxshare Precision Industry
Luxshare Precision Industry is a Chinese precision manufacturer founded in 2004 by Wang Laichun, known for assembling Apple products including AirPods, the iPhone, and the Vision Pro headset.
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.
National Electric Vehicle Sweden
National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS) is a Swedish electric-vehicle company in Trollhättan, founded in 2012 by Kai Johan Jiang to build electric cars from bankrupt Saab Automobile's assets.
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.
Ningbo Deye Technology
Ningbo Deye Technology is a Chinese manufacturer based in Ningbo, founded by Zhang Hejun in 2000, and the world's largest provider of residential energy-storage inverters.
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.
Orbbec
Orbbec (奥比中光) is a Shenzhen-based 3D vision sensing company founded by Huang Yuanhao in 2013, developing depth cameras across structured light, iToF, stereo, and LiDAR technologies.
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.
Qu Xiaohua
Qu Xiaohua (瞿晓铧), known in English as Dr. Shawn Qu, is a Canadian business executive who founded the solar manufacturer Canadian Solar in Ontario in 2001.
Rao Luhua
Rao Luhua (饶陆华, born 1965) is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded Shenzhen Clou Electronics in 1996, led it to its 2007 Shenzhen listing, and lost control by 2021.
Rao Xianhong
Rao Xianhong (饶先宏) is a Chinese semiconductor engineer and associate professor who co-founded Changsha Jingjia Microelectronics in 2006 and was first completer of China's JM5400 embedded GPU.
Richard Chang (semiconductor executive)
Richard Chang, or Zhang Rujing (张汝京), is a Chinese-American semiconductor executive born in 1948 who founded and led SMIC, China's largest chip foundry, from 2000 to 2009.
Shanghai Aiko Solar Energy
Shanghai Aiko Solar Energy, known as Aiko Solar, is a Chinese solar cell and module maker in Shanghai, founded by Chen Gang, known for N-type ABC cells.
Shanghai Betone Semi-Conductor Energy Technology
Shanghai Betone Semi-Conductor Energy Technology (陛通半导体) is a Shanghai manufacturer of thin-film deposition equipment for chip fabrication, founded in Zhangjiang in 2008 by Song Weicong, a 13-year Applied Materials veteran.
Shao Jianxiong
Shao Jianxiong (邵建雄) is a Chinese businessman who founded and chairs Hoymiles, a Hangzhou maker of solar microinverters whose 2021 stock listing made him a billionaire.
Shen Wei
Shen Wei (沈炜) is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded Vivo, the Dongguan-based smartphone maker with over 500 million users, and serves as its chief executive officer.
Skyverse
Skyverse Technology (中科飞测) is a Chinese semiconductor inspection and metrology equipment maker in Shenzhen, founded in 2014 and listed on the STAR Market in 2023.
Song Weicong
Song Weicong (宋维聪), born in 1955, is a Chinese semiconductor entrepreneur who spent thirteen years at Applied Materials before founding Betone, a Shanghai thin-film deposition equipment maker, in 2008.