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Vimicro
Vimicro (中星微电子, Zhongxingwei) is a Beijing-based fabless semiconductor company founded by Deng Zhonghan in 1999, the first Chinese chip design firm to list on Nasdaq, in 2005.
Virata Corp.
Virata Corp., originally Advanced Telecommunications Modules Limited (ATML), was a fabless semiconductor company founded in Cambridge, England in 1993 by Hermann Hauser, which made DSL communications processors and merged with GlobeSpan in 2001.
Walden C. Rhines
Walden C. Rhines is an American semiconductor and EDA executive who was CEO of Mentor Graphics from 1993 to 2017, after 21 years at Texas Instruments.
Walter C. Benzing
Walter C. Benzing, known as Walt Benzing, was an American chemical engineer who joined Applied Materials in 1967 and spent about a decade as its ambassador to Japan.
Wang Chuan
Wang Chuan (王川) is a Chinese technology entrepreneur who became Xiaomi's eighth co-founder in 2012 and built its Mi TV and Mi Box businesses, after founding Thunder Stone in 1996.
Wang Chuanfu
Wang Chuanfu (王传福), born 1966, is a Chinese battery engineer and entrepreneur who founded BYD in Shenzhen in 1995 and built it into the world's largest new-energy vehicle seller.
Wang Dongsheng
Wang Dongsheng (王东升, born 1957) is a Chinese industrialist who founded BOE Technology Group in 1993 and built it into the world's largest display panel maker.
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.
Wang Laisheng
Wang Laisheng (王来胜) is a Chinese billionaire businessman who co-founded Apple supplier Luxshare Precision in 2004 with his sister Wang Laichun and serves as vice chairman.
Wang Lei (Chinese entrepreneur)
Wang Lei (王雷), known in English as Bruce Wang, is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded portable power station maker EcoFlow in Shenzhen in 2017 and serves as its chairman and CEO.
Wang Minwen
Wang Minwen (王敏文, born 1963) is a Chinese businessman who chairs Hangzhou Lion Microelectronics, a semiconductor silicon wafer and chip maker listed in Shanghai since 2020.
Wang Shumin
Wang Shumin (王淑敏), born 1964, is a Chinese-born American materials chemist who founded Anji Microelectronics in Shanghai in 2004, China's leading producer of CMP polishing slurries.
Wang Tao (Chinese entrepreneur)
Wang Tao, also known as Frank Wang (汪滔), is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded DJI, the Shenzhen drone maker with about 70 percent of the global consumer market.
Wang Yanqing
Wang Yanqing (王燕清), born in 1966, is a Chinese engineer and entrepreneur who founded Wuxi Lead Intelligent Equipment in 2002 and chairs the world's largest lithium-battery equipment maker.
Wang Yiming
Wang Yiming (王一鸣), born 1981, is a Chinese engineer and entrepreneur who founded Ginlong Technologies, a maker of solar string inverters in Ningbo, Zhejiang, leaving UK doctoral studies in 2005 and listing it in 2019.
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.
Weili Dai
Weili Dai (戴伟立) is a Shanghai-born American businesswoman who co-founded the semiconductor company Marvell Technology Group in 1995 with her husband Sehat Sutardja, and served as its president.
Wellfleet Communications
Wellfleet Communications was a networking company in Bedford, Massachusetts, founded in 1986 by Paul Severino, that became the number-two maker of multiprotocol routers behind Cisco.
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.
Wilfred Corrigan
Wilfred Corrigan is a semiconductor executive who founded and led LSI Logic from 1981 to 2005 after serving as president and chief executive of Fairchild Camera and Instrument.
Will Semiconductor, which acquired OmniVision
Will Semiconductor (上海韦尔) is a Chinese fabless semiconductor company founded in Shanghai in 2007 by Yu Renrong, best known for its 2019 acquisition of OmniVision Technologies, making it a top-three CMOS image sensor supplier.
William M. Holt
William M. Holt is an American semiconductor engineer who spent 42 years at Intel, retiring in 2016 as head of its Technology and Manufacturing Group.
William Wang
William Wang is a Taiwanese-American business executive who co-founded Vizio in 2002, built it into a leading North American TV brand, and sold it to Walmart for about $2.3 billion.
Winston Chen
Winston Chen (陳文雄) is a Taiwan-born American engineer and executive who invested $100,000 in Solectron in 1978 and led it to $18 billion in revenue by 2000.
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.
Wu Jihan
Wu Jihan (吴忌寒) is a Singapore-based cryptocurrency entrepreneur who co-founded Bitmain in 2013, built it into the world's largest bitcoin mining chip maker, and now leads Bitdeer.
Wuxi Lead Intelligent Equipment Co Ltd
Wuxi Lead Intelligent Equipment Co Ltd, known as Lead Intelligent, is a Chinese maker of lithium-ion battery production equipment, founded by Wang Yanqing in 2002 and headquartered in Wuxi, Jiangsu.
Xu Lingjie
Xu Lingjie (徐凌杰) is a Chinese semiconductor executive who co-founded Biren Technology, the Shanghai-based GPU developer, in 2019 and was its president until resigning in January 2024.