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Ding-Hua Hu
Ding-Hua Hu (胡定华, also romanized Hu Ting-hua; 1943–2019) was a Taiwanese electrical engineer who, as founding director of ITRI's ERSO in Hsinchu, led the 1976 RCA technology transfer that seeded Taiwan's IC industry.
Ding-Yuan Yang
Ding-Yuan Yang (楊丁元) is a Taiwanese electrical engineer and semiconductor executive who led ITRI's 1976 RCA integrated-circuit training group and founded Winbond Electronics in 1987, serving as its president until 1999.
Donald O. Pederson
Donald O. Pederson (1925–2004) was an American professor of electrical engineering at UC Berkeley who led the creation of SPICE, the circuit simulator from which most modern chip-design tools descend.
Dongxin Semiconductor
Dongxin Semiconductor (东芯半导体, Dosilicon) is a Shanghai-based fabless designer of small- and medium-capacity memory chips, including NAND Flash, NOR Flash, DRAM, and MCP products, founded by Jiang Xueming in 2014.
Doris Hsu
Doris Hsu (徐秀兰, also Hsu Hsiu-lan) is a Taiwanese executive who has chaired GlobalWafers since 2011 and won the EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year award in 2023.
Dr. John Hennessy
John L. Hennessy is an American computer scientist who cofounded MIPS Computer Systems and Atheros Communications, served as Stanford's 10th president from 2000 to 2016, and won the 2017 Turing Award.
EcoFlow
EcoFlow (正浩) is a Chinese clean-energy company founded in Shenzhen in 2017 by former DJI battery engineer Bruce Wang, making portable power stations and home batteries.
Edmund Sun
Edmund Sun is an American semiconductor entrepreneur who co-founded C-Cube Microsystems in California in 1988, serving as its first president and CEO; he also founded Weitek.
Eduard Polón
Eduard Polón (1861–1930) was a Finnish industrialist and lawyer who founded the Finnish Rubber Works in 1898 and led it for thirty years as managing director.
Elad Raz
Elad Raz is an Israeli technology entrepreneur, founder and CEO of NextSilicon, a Tel Aviv semiconductor startup founded in 2017 that builds the Maverick-2 accelerator for high-performance computing and AI.
EMC Corporation
EMC Corporation was an American data storage company founded in Massachusetts in 1979 by Richard Egan and Roger Marino, acquired by Dell in 2016 for $67 billion.
Emily Hong
Emily Hong (洪丽寗) is a Taiwanese executive who founded Wiwynn, a server and data-center infrastructure maker spun off from Wistron in 2012, and now chairs it.
EOS GmbH
EOS GmbH is a family-owned German industrial 3D printing company founded in 1989 near Munich by Hans J. Langer, a leader in metal laser sintering.
Eran Kirzner
Eran Kirzner is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Lightbits Labs, the San Jose, California company behind the LightOS software-defined NVMe over TCP storage platform, founded in 2016.
Ernest S. Kuh
Ernest Shiu-Jen Kuh (1928–2015) was a Chinese-born American electrical engineer, professor, and dean of engineering at UC Berkeley, and a founding figure of the electronic design automation industry.
Exabyte Corporation
Exabyte Corporation was an American data-storage company in Boulder, Colorado, founded in 1985, that introduced the first 8mm tape drive for computer backup in 1987.
Excelan
Excelan was a networking company founded in January 1982 by Kanwal Rekhi, Navindra Jain, and Inder Singh to sell Ethernet boards with TCP/IP, merging into Novell in 1989.
Fabless Semiconductor Association
The Fabless Semiconductor Association (FSA) was a semiconductor industry trade group co-founded by Jodi Shelton in 1994 to champion the fabless model of designing chips without owning factories.
Fang Yunzhou
Fang Yunzhou (方运舟) is a Chinese automotive executive who co-founded Hozon New Energy in Zhejiang in 2014 and built its Neta brand into China's best-selling EV startup by 2022.
Federico Faggin
Federico Faggin, born 1941 in Vicenza, Italy, is an Italian-born physicist and semiconductor designer who built the Intel 4004, the first commercial microprocessor, then co-founded Zilog.
Ferrotec Holdings Corporation
Ferrotec Holdings Corporation, renamed Ferrotec Corporation in 2025, is a Tokyo-headquartered Japanese materials-technology group founded in 1980 that makes ferrofluid seals, quartz crucibles, ceramics, and thermoelectric modules for semiconductor manufacturing.
Finis Conner
Finis Conner is an American disk-drive industry executive who helped found Shugart Associates, Seagate Technology in 1979, and Conner Peripherals, which Seagate acquired in 1996.
Frank Huang
Frank Huang (黄崇仁) was a Taiwanese semiconductor entrepreneur who founded DRAM maker Powerchip Semiconductor in 1994 and rebuilt it as the foundry PSMC, which he chaired until his death in 2026.
Franklin Antonio
Franklin Antonio (1953–2022) was an American engineer and philanthropist who co-founded Qualcomm in San Diego in 1985, served as chief scientist, and left nearly $200 million to the Summer Science Program.
Frederick Krehbiel
Frederick August Krehbiel was an American inventor and businessman who founded Molex in Brookfield, Illinois, in 1938, after he and his son developed a moldable plastic.
Futaba Corporation
Futaba Corporation (双葉電子工業) is a Japanese electronics manufacturer headquartered in Mobara, Chiba Prefecture, founded in 1948 and known worldwide for hobby and industrial radio control equipment.
Galileo Technology (company)
Galileo Technology was an Israeli fabless semiconductor company that designed switched Ethernet and communications chips, listed on NASDAQ and acquired by Marvell in 2001 for about $2.7 billion.
Gao Jifan
Gao Jifan (高纪凡) is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded Trina Solar in Changzhou in 1997 and leads it as chairman and CEO; Forbes estimated his family's wealth at $1.6 billion in 2026.
Gao Yunfeng
Gao Yunfeng (高云峰), born in 1967, is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded Han's Laser in Shenzhen in 1996 and chairs the laser equipment maker, worth 15.5 billion yuan in 2026.
Gary Lauterbach
Gary Lauterbach is a computer architect who co-founded Cerebras Systems in 2015, served as its CTO, and earlier was chief architect of Sun Microsystems' UltraSPARC III and IV processors.