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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.
Radware
Radware (רדוור) is an Israel-based cybersecurity and application delivery company headquartered in Tel Aviv, founded in 1996 and listed on Nasdaq under the ticker RDWR.
Rahul Sud
Rahul Sud is an India-born semiconductor engineer, formerly Director of Memory Engineering at Intel, who founded Lattice Semiconductor in Oregon in 1983 and was dismissed as CEO in 1987.
Rainbow Robotics
Rainbow Robotics (주식회사 레인보우로보틱스) is a South Korean robotics company founded in 2011 by KAIST's Hubo Lab researchers under Professor Oh Jun-ho, building collaborative robot arms and humanoids.
Rajeev Madhavan
Rajeev Madhavan is an EDA entrepreneur and venture investor who co-founded Magma Design Automation in 1997, led it to a Nasdaq listing, and sold it to Synopsys in 2012.
Rambus
Rambus is a semiconductor company in San Jose, California, founded in 1990, that sells memory interface chips and silicon IP for data center and AI systems.
Ran Halutz
Ran Halutz is an Israeli semiconductor executive who co-founded Habana Labs in 2016, serving as VP of research and development until Intel bought the AI chipmaker in 2019.
Ran Poliakine
Ran Poliakine (רן פוליאקין) was an Israeli serial entrepreneur who founded Powermat Technologies and Nano-X Imaging, which he took public in 2020; he died in 2024 at 56.
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.
Raviv Melamed
Raviv Melamed is an Israeli technology entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Vayyar Imaging, which makes single-chip 4D imaging radar sensors; he joined Intel in 2004 through its acquisition of his startup Envara.
Ray Capece
Ray Capece, a former Electronics Magazine editor from New York who helped write Lattice's business plans, co-founded Lattice Semiconductor in Oregon in 1983 and later served as its Secretary.
Ray Stata
Ray Stata (Raymond Stata) is an American semiconductor entrepreneur and MIT-trained engineer who co-founded Analog Devices in 1965, led it as CEO, and chaired its board until 2022.
Raydium Semiconductor
Raydium Semiconductor (瑞鼎科技) is a Taiwanese IC design company founded in 2003 and based in Hsinchu Science Park, known for display driver, touch, and power-management chips.
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.
Renrendai
Renrendai (人人贷) was a Beijing-based peer-to-peer lending platform founded in 2010 by Zhang Shishi, Li Xinhe, and Yang Yifu, one of China's largest until the P2P sector was shut down in 2020.
Ribbon Communications
Ribbon Communications is an American communications technology company, formed in 2017 by merging Sonus Networks and GENBAND, supplying session border controllers and IP networking equipment.
Rich Templeton
Rich Templeton is an American semiconductor executive who spent his 45-year career at Texas Instruments, serving as CEO from 2004 and chairman until his 2025 retirement.
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.
Richard Egan (businessman)
Richard Egan, known as Dick Egan, was an American engineer who co-founded EMC Corporation in 1979 and served as US Ambassador to Ireland from 2001 to 2003.
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.
Rob A. Rutenbar
Rob A. Rutenbar is an American electrical engineer and entrepreneur known for analog chip-design automation and, since 2017, research leadership at the University of Pittsburgh.
Rob Walker (electrical engineer)
Rob Walker (1935–2016) was a Silicon Valley engineer who co-founded the chip company LSI Logic in 1980 and led Stanford's Silicon Genesis oral history project.
Robert C. Dobkin
Robert C. Dobkin is an American analog integrated-circuit designer who co-founded Linear Technology in 1981, designed the first three-terminal adjustable voltage regulator, and holds over 100 patents.
Robert F. Graham
Robert F. Graham, known as Bob Graham (1929–1998), was an American semiconductor equipment executive who led Novellus Systems as CEO from 1986 and chairman from 1992.
Robert Galvin
Robert Galvin (1922–2011) was an American business executive who led Motorola, the company his father founded, from 1959, producing the first handheld cellular phone and developing Six Sigma.
Robert H. Swanson Jr.
Robert H. Swanson Jr., known as Bob Swanson, is an American semiconductor executive who co-founded Linear Technology in Milpitas, California, in 1981 and led it as CEO.
Robert Hartmann (semiconductor engineer)
Robert (Bob) Hartmann is an American semiconductor engineer who co-founded Altera in 1983, served as its Vice President of Engineering until 1994, and is known as the father of programmable logic.
Robert K. Brayton
Robert K. Brayton (1933–2025) was an American engineer and mathematician, a UC Berkeley professor and pioneer of electronic design automation whose tools shaped digital circuit design.
Robert Krakoff
Robert "RazerGuy" Krakoff was an American business executive who co-founded gaming-hardware company Razer and launched the Razer Boomslang, widely called the first gaming mouse, in 1999.