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Takemitsu Takizaki (Keyence)
Takemitsu Takizaki (滝崎武光) is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded Keyence, the factory-automation sensor maker, in Hyogo in 1972 and led it as president until 2000.
Tamisuke Yokogawa
Tamisuke Yokogawa (横河民輔) was a Japanese architect and Doctor of Engineering who founded the Electric Meter Research Institute in Tokyo in 1915, which became Yokogawa Electric Corporation.
TBEA
TBEA (特变电工) is a Chinese power-transmission equipment and polysilicon group headquartered in Changji, Xinjiang, listed in Shanghai since 1997 and controlled by founder Zhang Xin.
TBM
TBM Co., Ltd. (株式会社TBM) is a Tokyo materials company founded in 2011 by CEO Atsuyoshi Yamasaki, known for LIMEX, a limestone-based alternative to plastic and paper.
Ted Hoff
Ted Hoff, born 1937 in Rochester, New York, is an American engineer who proposed the architecture of the Intel 4004, the first commercial microprocessor, becoming Intel's first Fellow in 1980.
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.
Teijin
Teijin, also known as Teijin Limited, is a Japanese technology group founded in 1918 as Japan's first rayon manufacturer, now spanning high-performance materials, healthcare, and IT.
Tencor Instruments
Tencor Instruments was a San Jose, California maker of wafer inspection and measurement equipment for chip manufacturing, founded by Karel Urbanek and merged with KLA in 1997.
Teresa Meng
Teresa Meng (孟怀萦) is a Taiwan-born electrical engineer who pioneered all-CMOS Wi-Fi, founded Atheros Communications, and in 2019 became the first woman to receive the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal.
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.
Tetsuya Iizuka
Tetsuya Iizuka (飯塚 哲哉) is a Japanese engineer, founder and CEO of the fabless semiconductor company THine Electronics since 1991, known for establishing the V-by-One HS interface used in high-definition televisions.
THine Electronics
THine Electronics (ザインエレクトロニクス) is a Tokyo-based fabless semiconductor company founded by Tetsuya Iizuka, known for its V-by-One HS interface standard used widely in 4K and 8K displays.
Thomas W. Williams
Thomas W. Williams is an EDA scientist and former IBM researcher known for co-inventing Level Sensitive Scan Design in 1977 and winning the 2018 Phil Kaufman Award.
Thomson-CSF
Thomson-CSF was a French defense and professional electronics group formed in 1968, Europe's largest in the field, privatized in 1998 and renamed Thales in 2000.
TiE; founder of Aspen Semiconductor
TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) is a nonprofit entrepreneurship network founded in Silicon Valley in December 1992, whose cofounder Narpat Bhandari also founded chip company Aspen Semiconductor.
TIER IV
TIER IV (株式会社ティアフォー) is a Tokyo-based autonomous driving company founded in 2015 as a Nagoya University spinout; it develops the open-source Autoware stack and listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2026.
Tokyo Electron
Tokyo Electron (TEL) is a Japanese maker of semiconductor production equipment, headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo, founded in 1963; it is the world's fourth-largest by revenue.
Tom Brightman
Tom Brightman is an American semiconductor executive who co-founded Cyrix Corporation in Richardson, Texas in 1988 with Jerry Rogers, and is credited with the processor behind the first sub-$500 personal computer.
TORICO LTD (Yuzo Torizuka)
TORICO LTD (株式会社トリコ), also known as Trico Co., Ltd., is a Japanese company founded by Yuzo Torizuka in 1973 that repairs semiconductor and LCD manufacturing equipment.
Toshihiko Furukawa
Toshihiko Furukawa was a Japanese business executive who founded Sodick Co., Ltd., a maker of electrical discharge machines and precision machine tools, in Yokohama in 1976.
Transitron Electronic Corp (semiconductor company)
Transitron Electronic Corporation was an American semiconductor manufacturer founded in 1952 by brothers Leo and David Bakalar in Massachusetts, once among the largest US diode and transistor makers.
Trina Solar
Trina Solar (天合光能) is a Chinese photovoltaic module manufacturer founded by Gao Jifan in 1997, headquartered in Changzhou, Jiangsu, and among the world's four largest module suppliers.
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.
Ueno Seiki
Ueno Seiki (上野精機株式会社) is a Japanese manufacturer of semiconductor and electronic-parts inspection equipment, founded in 1972 and headquartered in Mizumaki-machi, Fukuoka Prefecture, with a stated top share in visual inspection equipment.
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.
Varian Associates
Varian Associates was an American technology company founded in 1948 by klystron inventors Russell and Sigurd Varian, becoming one of the first Silicon Valley companies.
Vayyar
Vayyar Imaging is an Israeli semiconductor company founded in 2011 in Yehud by Raviv Melamed, Miri Ratner, and Naftali Chayat, making 4D imaging radar-on-chip sensors for automotive, senior care, and smart home uses.
Verilator
Verilator is an open-source SystemVerilog simulator and lint system that converts Verilog and SystemVerilog designs into C++ or SystemC models, often about 30 times faster than traditional simulators.
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.