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BOE Technology Group

BOE Technology Group is a Beijing-based display panel maker founded in 1993 from the state-owned Beijing Electron Tube Factory, ranked first globally in LCD shipments.

Bonnie Tu

Bonnie Tu (杜绣珍, Tu Hsiu-chen) is a Taiwanese bicycle-industry executive who chaired Giant Group, the world's largest bicycle brand, from 2017 to 2024 and founded the women's cycling brand Liv.

Bordrin Motor

Bordrin Motor (博郡汽车) was a Chinese electric-vehicle startup founded in Nanjing in 2016 by engineer Huang Ximing; it developed the iV6 and iV7 SUVs but produced none.

Brocade Communications Systems

Brocade Communications Systems was a San Jose, California company that built Fibre Channel switches for storage area networks, later acquired by Broadcom for about $6.1 billion in 2017.

Bruce Cheng

Bruce Cheng (郑崇华), born in 1936, is the Taiwanese engineer who founded Delta Electronics in 1971 and built it into the world's largest maker of switching power supplies.

BV Jagadeesh

BV Jagadeesh is an Indian-born Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor who co-founded data-center pioneer Exodus Communications and led NetScaler as CEO until Citrix acquired it in 2005.

Byton

Byton (拜腾汽车) was a Chinese-German electric vehicle startup founded in 2016 by former BMW executives in Nanjing, known for its M-Byte SUV and for never delivering a production car.

C-Cube Microsystems

C-Cube Microsystems was a Milpitas, California semiconductor company founded in 1988 that pioneered MPEG video compression chips, powering Video CD, satellite, and DVD players before LSI Logic acquired it in 2001 for about $878 million.

C. Norman Winningstad

C. Norman "Norm" Winningstad (1925–2010) was an American engineer and businessman in Oregon who founded Floating Point Systems, helped launch Lattice Semiconductor, and was a Silicon Forest philanthropist.

C.C. Leung (Quanta Computer)

C.C. Leung, also known as Chee-Chun Leung (梁次震), is a Taiwanese executive who co-founded Quanta Computer with Barry Lam in 1988 and serves as its vice chairman and president.

Cambium Networks

Cambium Networks is an American wireless broadband equipment company, formed in 2011 from Motorola Solutions' point-to-point and point-to-multipoint businesses, serving wireless ISPs, enterprises, and governments.

Cambridge Processor Unit Ltd

Cambridge Processor Unit Ltd, usually shortened to CPU Ltd, was a Cambridge microprocessor consultancy founded by Hermann Hauser and Chris Curry that became Acorn Computers.

Canadian Solar

Canadian Solar is a Canadian-incorporated solar photovoltaic module and battery energy storage manufacturer founded by Shawn Qu in Mississauga, Ontario, in 2001 and listed on NASDAQ since 2006.

Cao Renxian

Cao Renxian (曹仁贤), born 1968, is a Chinese engineer and entrepreneur who founded solar inverter maker Sungrow Power Supply in Hefei in 1997 and chairs it today.

Carlotta Baumann

Carlotta Baumann (born 1987) is a German business executive and managing owner of Finetech, a Berlin manufacturer of high-precision die-bonding equipment, who won the EY Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2024.

Carolyn Yeh

Carolyn Yeh (叶紫华, Yeh Tzu-hua) is a Taiwanese businesswoman who co-founded Multitech in 1976, the company that became Acer, and ran its finance and internal operations through its early years.

Carsten Breitfeld

Carsten Breitfeld (毕福康) is a German automotive engineer who led the BMW i8 program, co-founded the Chinese electric vehicle startup Byton in 2016, and later led Faraday Future.

Casa Systems, Inc.

Casa Systems, Inc. was a broadband and mobile networking equipment company in Andover, Massachusetts, founded by Jerry Guo in 2003 and listed on Nasdaq in 2017.

Casey Morrison

Casey Morrison is an American semiconductor executive who co-founded Astera Labs in 2017 and serves as its Chief Product Officer, leading its AI connectivity chips.

Chang Hung-ben

Richard Chang Hung-ben (张洪本) is a Taiwanese executive who co-founded ASE in 1984 and is vice chairman and president of ASE Technology Holding, the world's largest chip packaging and testing company.

Chang Jing

Chang Jing (昌敬), born in 1982, is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded the robotic vacuum maker Roborock in Beijing in 2014 and serves as its chairman and chief executive.

Charlene Barshefsky

Charlene Barshefsky is an American trade lawyer who served as US Trade Representative from 1997 to 2001, brokering the 1999 agreement that set terms for China's WTO entry.

Charles Sporck

Charles E. Sporck (1927-2024) was an American semiconductor executive who built National Semiconductor from near bankruptcy into a billion-dollar chip company as CEO from 1967 to 1991.

Chau-Ing Hsu

Chau-Ing Hsu (Hsu Chao-ying) is a Taiwanese electronics entrepreneur who founded Kinpo Electronics in 1973 and established Compal Electronics, a major notebook maker, in 1984.

Chen Chun-hsiung

Chen Chun-hsiung (陳俊雄) is a Taiwanese entrepreneur who founded Joy Industrial Group in 1971 in Taichung, whose Joytech and Novatec brands supply major bicycle makers worldwide.

Chen Gang (Chinese entrepreneur)

Chen Gang (陈刚), born 1968, is a Chinese entrepreneur, founder, chairman, and controlling shareholder of Shanghai Aiko Solar, a Shanghai-based maker of solar cells and ABC modules.

Chen Jui-tsung

Chen Jui-tsung (陈瑞聪), known in English-language coverage as Ray Chen, is a Taiwanese executive who became chairman of Compal Electronics in 2024 after leading its recovery from a 1987 plant fire.

Chen Lu (semiconductor entrepreneur)

Chen Lu (陈鲁), born 1977, is a Chinese semiconductor-equipment entrepreneur who founded Skyverse Technology, a Shenzhen maker of wafer inspection and metrology equipment listed on the STAR Market in 2023.

Chen Sung-chun

Chen Sung-chun (陈松君) is the general manager of Joytech, a Taichung-based Taiwanese maker of bicycle hubs and wheelsets sold under the Novatec brand, since 2022.

Chen Tianshi

Chen Tianshi (陈天石), born in 1985, is a Chinese computer scientist who co-founded Cambricon Technologies in 2016 and leads the Beijing AI chip designer, becoming China's first AI chip billionaire in 2025.