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Robert Pepper
Robert Pepper is a semiconductor executive who was president, CEO, and chairman of Level One Communications in Sacramento, selling the chipmaker to Intel in 1999 for about $2.2 billion.
Robert R. Anderson
Robert R. Anderson is an American business executive who co-founded KLA Instruments in Silicon Valley in 1975, serving as Chairman, CFO, and COO until 1994.
Robert W. Dutton
Robert W. Dutton is an American electrical engineer and Stanford professor emeritus called the father of TCAD, whose group created the SUPREM and PISCES simulators.
Robin Saxby
Sir Robin Saxby, born 1947, is a British electronic engineer who was Arm Holdings' founding CEO from 1991, built its chip licensing model, and led its 1998 flotation.
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.
Rohm
Rohm, also known as ROHM Semiconductor (ローム株式会社), is a Japanese semiconductor and electronic-components manufacturer headquartered in Kyoto. Founded by Kenichiro Sato in 1954, it is a leading supplier of silicon carbide power devices.
Ronald Yara
Ronald Yara is an American semiconductor entrepreneur and venture capitalist who co-founded S3 Incorporated in 1989 and Chips & Technologies, later a general partner at Tallwood Venture Capital.
Ross Freeman
Ross H. Freeman (1948–1989) was an American engineer who invented the field-programmable gate array and co-founded Xilinx in San Jose in 1984, entering the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2009.
Roy Kusumoto
Roy Kusumoto (楠本) is an American engineer who founded Solectron in Milpitas, California in 1977, growing the circuit-board shop into the dominant electronics manufacturing services firm before its 2007 sale to Flextronics.
Roy Zisapel
Roy Zisapel is an Israeli technology executive who co-founded Radware, a Tel Aviv cybersecurity company traded on Nasdaq, and has led it as President and CEO since 1997.
S-MOS Systems
S-MOS Systems was a San Jose semiconductor company founded in 1983 that designed CMOS chips sold in North America and fabricated by Seiko Epson in Japan.
S3 Graphics
S3 Graphics, also known as S3 Incorporated, was a Silicon Valley graphics-chip company founded in 1989 that held 43 percent of the graphics market in the mid-1990s before losing the 3D transition to Nvidia and ATI.
Sanil Electric
Sanil Electric (산일전기) is a South Korean specialty transformer manufacturer founded by Park Dong-seok in 1987, headquartered in Ansan and listed on KOSPI in 2024.
Sanjay Gajendra
Sanjay Gajendra is an American semiconductor executive who co-founded Astera Labs in 2017, serving as its President and COO; he was named EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year 2026.
Sanjay Mehrotra
Sanjay Mehrotra is an Indian-born American semiconductor executive, CEO of memory chipmaker Micron Technology since 2017, who co-founded SanDisk in 1988 and led it until its 2016 sale to Western Digital.
Satish Gupta
Satish Gupta is a Silicon Valley semiconductor executive who led Cradle Technologies as president and CEO from 1998 to 2002, after marketing roles at Cirrus Logic.
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.
SDA Systems, later part of Cadence Design Systems
SDA Systems was a Silicon Valley electronic design automation company founded by James Solomon in 1983 to build chip design software, merging with ECAD to form Cadence in 1988.
Sean Lie
Sean Lie is a chip architect who co-founded Cerebras Systems in Sunnyvale, California, and as its chief hardware architect led the Wafer-Scale Engine, a chip spanning an entire silicon wafer.
Sehat Sutardja (Marvell Technology)
Sehat Sutardja (1961–2024) was an Indonesian-born American electrical engineer who co-founded the chipmaker Marvell Technology in 1995 and served as its CEO and chairman until 2016.
Seiuemon Inaba
Seiuemon Inaba, also known as Inaba Seiuemon, was a Japanese engineer who founded FANUC, the world's largest maker of numerical controls and industrial robots, and led it until 1995.
Sekiya family
The Sekiya family (関家) is the founding family of Disco Corporation, started by Mitsuo Sekiya in 1937 and led today by grandson Kazuma Sekiya, president since 2009.
Semtech
Semtech is an American semiconductor company headquartered in Camarillo, California, founded in 1960, that makes analog and mixed-signal chips and owns the LoRa low-power wireless technology.
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.
SHI International
SHI International is a closely held IT products and solutions provider headquartered in Somerset, New Jersey, founded in 1989 by Leo KoGuan and Thai Lee.
Shigenobu Nagamori
Shigenobu Nagamori (永守重信) is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded the motor maker Nidec in Kyoto in 1973 and built it into the world's largest maker of small precision motors.
Shinkawa (company)
Shinkawa Ltd. was a Japanese manufacturer of semiconductor back-end assembly equipment, best known for die, wire, and flip chip bonders; it joined Yamaha Motor in 2019.