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Gateway Design Automation

Gateway Design Automation was an American electronic design automation company, founded by Prabhu Goel in 1982, that developed the Verilog hardware description language and Verilog-XL simulator.

GCL Group

GCL Group (协鑫集团) is a Chinese clean-energy group founded in 1990 by Zhu Gongshan, organized around silicon materials for the solar industry, including granular polysilicon.

George Perlegos

George Perlegos (Γιώργος Πελέγος) is a Greek-born American semiconductor engineer who pioneered EEPROM memory at Intel, founded Atmel in 1984, and led it until his 2006 ouster.

George Scalise

George Scalise is an American semiconductor executive who led the Semiconductor Industry Association from 1997 to 2010 after senior roles at Apple and National Semiconductor.

GigaDevice

GigaDevice (兆易创新) is a Beijing-based fabless semiconductor company founded by Zhu Yiming in 2005, second worldwide in SPI NOR flash and listed in Shanghai since 2016.

Gil Rosenman

Gil Rosenman is an Israeli solid-state physicist and professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University, best known as a co-founder and chief scientist of the battery company StoreDot.

Gilat Satellite Networks

Gilat Satellite Networks (גילת לוויינים) is an Israeli satellite communications company founded in 1987 and headquartered in Petah Tikva, making VSAT terminals, modems, and antennas, and trading on NASDAQ as GILT.

Ginlong Technologies

Ginlong Technologies, which sells inverters under the Solis brand, is a Chinese manufacturer of solar string and energy-storage inverters founded in 2005 in Xiangshan, Ningbo, Zhejiang.

Giovanni De Micheli

Giovanni De Micheli is an Italian electrical engineer and professor at EPFL, a pioneer of electronic design automation and inventor of the Network on Chip paradigm.

Gjalt Smit

Gjalt Smit is a Dutch physicist who served as the first managing director of ASML, the lithography joint venture of Philips and ASM International, from 1984 to 1987.

Global Semiconductor Alliance

The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) is a Dallas, Texas-based trade association for the semiconductor industry, founded in 1994 as the Fabless Semiconductor Association and renamed in 2007.

Global Unichip Corporation

Global Unichip Corporation (创意电子, GUC) is a Taiwanese ASIC design services company founded in 1998 in Hsinchu, Taiwan, and listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange since 2006.

Gogolook

Gogolook (走著瞧股份有限公司) is a Taipei-based anti-fraud software company founded in 2012, best known for the Whoscall caller-ID app, which has passed 100 million downloads and holds leading anti-fraud market share in Taiwan, Thailand, and Japan.

Gold Circuit Electronics

Gold Circuit Electronics (金像电) is a Taiwanese printed circuit board maker founded by Yang Chang-Chih in Taoyuan in 1981, now among Taiwan's largest on AI server board orders, with record 2025 revenue of about NT$60 billion.

Gordon Campbell (semiconductor executive)

Gordon A. Campbell is an American semiconductor executive, formerly of Intel, who co-founded Chips and Technologies in 1984 and is credited with pioneering the fabless model of chip design.

Growatt

Growatt (古瑞瓦特) is a Shenzhen-based maker of solar inverters and energy storage systems, founded by Ding Yongqiang in 2010; by 2025 it ranked third globally in residential storage inverters.

Habana Labs

Habana Labs is an Israeli developer of deep learning processors, founded in 2016 in Caesarea, Israel, and acquired by Intel for about $2 billion in 2019.

Hamamatsu Photonics

Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. (浜松ホトニクス) is a Japanese manufacturer of photomultiplier tubes, opto-semiconductors, imaging equipment, and lasers, founded in 1953 in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, with a near-monopoly in photomultiplier tubes used in Nobel Prize neutrino experiments.

Hans J. Langer

Hans J. Langer is a German physicist and entrepreneur who founded the industrial 3D-printing company EOS GmbH near Munich in 1989; Forbes calls him the world's first 3D-printing billionaire.

He Xiaopeng

He Xiaopeng (何小鹏) is a Chinese entrepreneur who co-founded the UC browser, sold to Alibaba in 2014, and leads XPeng Motors, which delivered 429,445 vehicles in 2025.

Henry Nicholas

Henry Nicholas is an American businessman and electrical engineer who co-founded the semiconductor company Broadcom in 1991 and led it as president and CEO until 2003.

Hichem M'Saad

Hichem M'Saad, born 1965, is a US and Tunisian semiconductor executive who has served as CEO of Dutch equipment maker ASM International since May 2024.

Hideki Shoji

Hideki Shoji (庄司 秀樹) is a Japanese engineer and entrepreneur who founded Toyo System in Iwaki, Fukushima, in 1989, a maker of TOSCAT battery test systems.

Ho Chi-Wu

Ho Chi-Wu (何继武), also known as Billy Ho, is a Taiwanese technology executive serving as president and spokesman of MiTAC Holdings, which he joined in 1985.

Hock Tan

Hock Tan is a Malaysian-born American executive, educated at MIT and Harvard, who has led Broadcom as president and CEO since 2006 through deals including VMware.

Hon. Precision, Inc.

Hon. Precision, Inc. (鸿劲精密) is a Taiwanese manufacturer of semiconductor IC test handlers and thermal-control equipment, headquartered in Taichung and listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange as 7769.

Hong Zhou

Hong Zhou (洪洲) is a Chinese GPU design engineer who serves as chief technology officer and executive director of Shanghai Biren Technology, and formerly led Huawei HiSilicon's self-developed GPU team.

HORIBA

HORIBA is a Japanese manufacturer of analytical, measurement, and control instruments headquartered in Kyoto. Founded in 1945, it is known for pH meters and automotive emissions analyzers.

Hou Weigui

Hou Weigui (侯为贵) is a Chinese engineer and entrepreneur who founded ZTE, the Shenzhen telecom equipment maker, in 1985 and led it as president and then chairman until retiring in 2016.

Hsieh Wen-ta

Hsieh Wen-ta (谢文达), also romanized Wen-Ta Hsieh, is a Taiwanese executive who co-founded and chairs Hon. Precision, a Taichung maker of IC test handlers used by TSMC and Nvidia.