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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.
Novatek Microelectronics
Novatek Microelectronics (聯詠科技) is a Taiwanese fabless semiconductor company founded in 1997 from UMC's former commercial product division, headquartered in Hsinchu Science Park, and known as the world's largest display-related chip supplier.
Novellus Systems
Novellus Systems was a San Jose, California maker of thin-film deposition equipment for chips, founded in 1984 and acquired by Lam Research in 2012 for about $3.3 billion.
Oh Jun-ho
Oh Jun-ho (오준호), born 1954 in Seoul, is a South Korean robotics engineer who led development of HUBO at KAIST, won the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge, and founded Rainbow Robotics.
OMRON Corporation
OMRON Corporation (オムロン), formerly Tateisi Electronics, is a Japanese automation, sensing, and healthcare group founded by Kazuma Tateishi in Osaka in 1933 and headquartered in Kyoto.
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.
Pan Wen-yuan
Pan Wen-yuan (潘文淵) was a Chinese-American RCA scientist who planned Taiwan's 1976 IC technology transfer, seeding UMC and TSMC, and is called the father of Taiwan's semiconductors.
Pantas Sutardja
Pantas Sutardja is an engineer who co-founded the chip company Marvell Technology with his brother Sehat Sutardja and Weili Dai in 1995, serving as chief technology officer until 2014.
Paolo della Porta
Paolo della Porta is an Italian engineer who led Saes Getters for decades and was the first EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year in 2001.
Pat Pistilli
Pat Pistilli, born Pasquale Pistilli, was an electrical engineer at Bell Labs who founded the Design Automation Conference in 1964 and co-founded MP Associates to run it.
Pat Weber
William Pez "Pat" Weber (1940–2024) was an American semiconductor executive who led Texas Instruments' chip business from 1986 to 1993 and briefly served as acting CEO in 1996.
Paul Newhagen
Paul Newhagen is an American semiconductor executive who co-founded Altera Corporation in 1983, served as its chief financial officer for about 10 years, and sat on its board until 2007.
Paul Severino
Paul Severino is an American technology entrepreneur who founded Interlan and Wellfleet Communications and co-founded Bay Networks; as Wellfleet's CEO he built it into Fortune's fastest-growing US company.
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.
Pei-Cheng Yeh
Pei-Cheng Yeh (叶培城), known in English as Dandy Yeh, is a Taiwanese entrepreneur who co-founded Gigabyte Technology in 1986 and has served as its chairman ever since.
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.
Peter Carlsson
Peter Carlsson (born 1970) is a Swedish entrepreneur, nicknamed "the Tesla Swede", who co-founded the battery manufacturer Northvolt in 2016 and led it as chief executive until November 2024.
Phil Moorby
Phil Moorby (1953–2022) was a British-born engineer who invented the Verilog hardware description language and its Verilog-XL simulator, work that became the foundation of digital chip design and verification.
Philco
Philco, an American electronics company founded in 1906 as the Philadelphia Storage Battery Company, led US radio manufacturing in the 1930s before Ford bought it in 1961.
Phison Electronics
Phison Electronics (群联电子) is a Taiwanese fabless semiconductor company, co-founded in 2000 by K.S. Pua, that designs NAND flash controllers for SSDs, memory cards, and USB drives.
Pierre Chen
Pierre Chen (陈泰铭) is a Taiwanese electronics entrepreneur who founded Yageo in 1977 and built it into a global passive components maker through acquisitions, becoming Taiwan's richest person in 2026.
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.
Polarium
Polarium is a Stockholm-based Swedish manufacturer of lithium-ion battery energy storage systems, founded in 2015 by Stefan Jansson and installed in more than 70 countries.
Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp
Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp (PSMC, 力积电) is a Taiwanese pure-play semiconductor foundry founded in 1994 that operates six fabs in Taiwan, ranks seventh among global foundries, and transferred chip technology to India's first fab.
Prabhu Goel
Prabhu Goel is an engineer and entrepreneur who founded Gateway Design Automation, the company behind the Verilog hardware description language, and sold it to Cadence in 1989.
Pradeep Sindhu
Pradeep Sindhu (प्रदीप सिंधु) is an Indian-born American computer scientist who co-founded Juniper Networks in 1996, led the design of its M40 backbone router, and later founded Fungible.
PrimeSense
PrimeSense was an Israeli 3D-sensing company founded in Tel Aviv in 2005 whose structured-light depth-sensing chip powered Microsoft's Kinect; Apple acquired it in 2013, reportedly for about $350 million.
Proxene Tools Co., Ltd.
Proxene Tools Co., Ltd. (伯鑫工具股份有限公司) is a Taiwanese hand-tool manufacturer founded in 1984 by Arthur Wu in Taichung, Asia's largest industrial-grade adjustable wrench maker, acquired 51 percent by Fusheng in 2025.
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.