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Realtek Semiconductor
Realtek Semiconductor (瑞昱半导体) is a Taiwanese IC design company founded in 1987 and headquartered in Hsinchu Science Park, known for Ethernet chips, PC audio codecs, and networking controllers.
Rick Tsai
Rick (Lih Shyng) Tsai is a Taiwanese semiconductor executive who leads MediaTek, the world's top smartphone chip supplier, after serving as TSMC's CEO from 2005 to 2009.
Rock Hsu
Rock Hsu (许胜雄) is a Taiwanese electronics executive who co-founded Kinpo Electronics in 1973 and chaired Compal Electronics for 32 years until 2024, now leading the Kinpo Group.
Sayling Wen
Sayling Wen (温世仁, 1948–2003) was a Taiwanese electronics executive who co-founded Kinpo Electronics in 1973, led Inventec to become Taiwan's largest notebook maker, and funded rural digitization in China.
Shu Shien-Siu
Shu Shien-Siu, also romanized Hsu Hsien-hsiu (徐賢修), was a Taiwanese mathematician and science administrator who chaired the National Science Council and ITRI, and is honored as the "Father of the Hsinchu Science Park."
Simon Lin
Simon Lin, born Lin Hsien-ming (林宪铭) in 1952, is a Taiwanese business executive who has led Wistron since leading its 2001 spin-off from Acer, where he was once president.
Stan Shih
Stan Shih, also known as Shi Zhenrong (施振榮), is a Taiwanese entrepreneur who co-founded Acer in 1976, led it to second place among world PC makers, and proposed the smiling curve.
Sung Cheng-Huan
Sung Cheng-Huan (宋政桓), known as Reiny Song, is a Taiwanese software engineer who co-founded the Taipei anti-fraud company Gogolook in 2012, serving as chief technology officer.
Sunplus Technology Co. Ltd.
Sunplus Technology is a Taiwanese fabless integrated-circuit design company founded in 1990, based in Hsinchu Science Park and listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange under code 2401.
T.H. Tung
T.H. Tung (Tung Tzu-hsien, 童子贤, born 1960) is a Taiwanese electronics executive who co-founded Asus in 1989 and chairs Pegatron, a contract manufacturer for Apple.
Ted Hsu
Ted Hsu (徐世昌, Hsu Shih-chang) is a Taiwanese engineer who co-founded ASUS in 1989, served as Vice Chairman of Pegatron, and returned in 2016 to lead ASUS's AI programs.
Terry Gou (Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industry))
Terry Gou, also known as Guo Taiming (郭台铭), is a Taiwanese entrepreneur who founded Foxconn, formally Hon Hai Precision Industry, in Taiwan in 1974 and led it as chairman for 45 years.
Tseng Fan-cheng
Tseng Fan-cheng (曾繁城), also romanized F.C. Tseng, is a Taiwanese semiconductor engineer, a 1976 RCA trainee whom Morris Chang calls a TSMC co-founder, who led the company as president and vice chairman.
Unimicron
Unimicron (欣兴电子), or Unimicron Technology Corporation, is a Taiwanese printed circuit board and IC package substrate manufacturer founded in 1984, supplying Nvidia, Intel, Google, and Amazon.
United Microelectronics Corporation
United Microelectronics Corporation (联华电子), known as UMC, is a Taiwanese semiconductor foundry founded in 1980 as Taiwan's first semiconductor company and the world's fourth-largest foundry by revenue.
VIA Technologies
VIA Technologies (威盛电子) is a Taiwanese fabless semiconductor company, founded in 1987, that briefly led the world chipset market in 2000 and holds an x86 license behind China's Zhaoxin.
Wang Kuo-chao
Wang Kuo-chao (王国肇) is a Taiwanese semiconductor engineer who trained in IC design at RCA in 1976 and chairs the Taiwan-listed chip firms Taihsin Semiconductor and Genesys Logic.
Wayne Hsieh
Wayne Hsieh (谢伟琦, Hsieh Wei-chi) is a Taiwanese engineer-turned-investor who co-founded computer maker ASUS in 1989 and led the consortium that bought Forbes Media in 2014.
Wenchi Chen
Wenchi Chen (陈文琦) is a Taiwanese semiconductor entrepreneur who has led VIA Technologies since the early 1990s, building it into the world's number-two PC chipset supplier.
Wistron Corporation
Wistron Corporation (緯創資通) is a Taiwanese electronics manufacturing company formed from Acer in 2001 and Taiwan's largest ODM by revenue in 2025, driven by AI servers.
Wiwynn
Wiwynn (纬颖) is a Taiwanese original design manufacturer of hyperscale cloud servers, founded in 2012 as a Wistron spin-off and listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange since 2019.
Wu Chuan-fu
Wu Chuan-fu (吴传福) is a Taiwanese businessman who founded PROXENE TOOLS, a Taichung maker of adjustable wrenches, in 1984 and serves as its general manager.
Yageo
Yageo (国巨) is a Taiwanese maker of passive electronic components such as resistors and capacitors, founded by Pierre Chen in 1977 and first globally in chip resistors.
Yang Chang-Chih
Yang Chang-Chih (杨长基) is a Taiwanese businessman who founded printed circuit board maker Gold Circuit Electronics in Taoyuan, Taiwan, in 1981, and debuted at No. 13 on the 2026 Forbes Taiwan 50 Richest list.
Yang Cheng-tse
Yang Cheng-tse (杨承泽) is the chairman and CEO of Gold Circuit Electronics, a Taiwanese printed circuit board maker, where he succeeded his father in 2017.
Yeh Kuo-i
Yeh Kuo-i (叶国一), born 1941, is a Taiwanese electronics entrepreneur who founded Inventec in 1975 and built it into one of Taiwan's major notebook and server manufacturers.
ZEMO
ZEMO (零迈移动服务) is a Taipei company founded in 2021 by Lu Hsueh-ju that runs an all-electric vehicle fleet for corporate transport and EV dispatch, serving companies like ASUS and Acer.
Zhang Congyuan (Huali Industrial Group)
Zhang Congyuan (Chang Tsung-yuan), born 1948, is a Taiwanese footwear manufacturer who founded and chairs Huali Industrial Group, one of the world's largest contract makers of branded athletic shoes.
Zhuo Zhihe
Zhuo Zhihe (卓志哲) is a Taiwanese semiconductor executive who joined MediaTek in 1997 as its first employee, served as founding president, became vice chairman in 2005, and retired in 2015.