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Hsu Kai-li

Hsu Kai-li (許介立, Jerry Hsu) is a Taiwanese executive who chairs AcBel Polytech, Kinpo Electronics, and Cal-Comp Electronics, and is the only son of Kinpo Group founder Hsu Sheng-hsiung.

Hu Yahua

Hu Yahua (胡亚华) is a Chinese engineer and businessman who co-founded Changsha Jingjia Microelectronics, a Changsha-based maker of military graphics display-control products and domestic GPU chips.

Huang Shilin

Huang Shilin (黄世霖, born 1967) is a Chinese engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded the electric-vehicle battery maker CATL, serving as vice chairman until resigning in 2022.

Huang Ximing

Huang Ximing (黄希鸣) is a Chinese automotive engineer and entrepreneur who founded the electric-vehicle startup Bordrin Motor in Nanjing in 2016; it collapsed in 2020.

Huang Xu

Huang Xu (黄旭) is a Chinese semiconductor executive who co-founded Rockchip Electronics, a Fuzhou-based fabless designer of intelligent application processor SoCs, in November 2001, holding a 43% founding stake.

Huang Yuanhao

Huang Yuanhao (黄源浩, born 1980) is a Chinese engineer and entrepreneur who founded Orbbec, the Shenzhen 3D vision sensing company listed on the STAR Market since 2022.

Hussein S. El-Ghoroury

Hussein S. El-Ghoroury is an American semiconductor entrepreneur who founded Ostendo Technologies in Carlsbad, California, in 2005, and leads its Quantum Photonic Imager microLED display chip.

Hwatsing Technology

Hwatsing Technology, also known as Hua Hai Qing Ke, is a Tianjin-based Chinese semiconductor equipment maker, founded in 2013 as a Tsinghua University spin-off for CMP tools.

Ido Susan

Ido Susan is an Israeli networking entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of DriveNets, a Ra'anana company selling software for carrier and AI networks, after co-founding Intucell, sold to Cisco for $475 million.

IMEC

Imec, formally the Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre, is an independent nonprofit nanoelectronics research institute in Leuven, Belgium, founded in 1984 and partnering with TSMC, Intel, and ASML.

Infinera

Infinera was an American optical networking company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, founded in 2000, known for photonic integrated circuits and acquired by Nokia in February 2025.

Insta360

Insta360, also known as Arashi Vision (影石创新), is a Chinese camera maker founded by Liu Jingkang in Shenzhen in 2015, known for 360-degree and action cameras.

Intersil

Intersil was an American semiconductor company founded in 1967 by Jean Hoerni, a Fairchild co-founder who invented the planar process; Renesas acquired it in 2017 for about $3.2 billion.

Isol

Isol (이솔), formally E-SOL, is a South Korean semiconductor equipment maker founded in 2018 by ex-Samsung mask specialist Kim Byung-gook, known for EUV mask inspection systems.

JA Solar Holdings

JA Solar Holdings (晶澳科技) is a Chinese solar manufacturer founded by Jin Baofang in 2005, based in Ningjin County, Hebei, and ranked among the world's top module suppliers.

Jack Gifford

Jack Gifford, also known as John Gifford, was an American semiconductor executive who co-founded Maxim Integrated Products in 1983 and AMD in 1968, leading Maxim until 2006.

James C. Morgan

James C. Morgan is an American business executive who was CEO of Applied Materials from 1977 to 2003, growing it into the world's largest semiconductor equipment maker.

James E. Solomon

James E. Solomon (born 1936) is an American analog integrated-circuit engineer who founded SDA in 1983, which merged with ECAD in 1988 to form Cadence Design Systems.

James Sansbury

James Sansbury is an American semiconductor engineer who co-founded Altera in 1983, served as its Vice President of Technology until 1999, and pioneered the fabless chip model.

James V. Barnett II (Xilinx)

James V. Barnett II, known as Jim Barnett, is an American semiconductor executive who co-founded Xilinx in 1984, the company that created the field-programmable gate array.

Jason Chang (ASE Technology Holding)

Jason Chang, born Zhang Qiansheng in 1944, is a Taiwanese businessman who co-founded ASE in Kaohsiung in 1984 and chairs ASE Technology Holding, the world's largest chip assembly and testing provider.

Jason Cong

Jason Cong (Jingsheng Cong) is a distinguished professor of computer science at UCLA who directs the VAST Laboratory and founded five EDA startups, all acquired, three by Xilinx.

Jayshree Ullal

Jayshree Ullal, born 1961, is an American business executive who has led Arista Networks as CEO since 2008, taking the company public in 2014 after fifteen years at Cisco.

Jean Hoerni

Jean Hoerni (1924–1997) was a Swiss-born physicist who invented the planar process for manufacturing silicon transistors, co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957, and later founded the chip maker Intersil.

Jean-Philippe Fricker

Jean-Philippe Fricker is a Swiss-trained hardware engineer, EPFL graduate, and co-founder of Cerebras Systems, where he designed the Wafer Scale Engine interconnect as Chief System Architect.

JEOL

JEOL Ltd. (日本電子株式会社) is a Japanese manufacturer of scientific and metrology instruments, including electron microscopes, mass spectrometers, and NMR spectrometers, founded in Tokyo in 1949 and headquartered in Akishima.

Jerry Guo

Jerry Guo is a Chinese-American technology executive who founded Casa Systems, a broadband and 5G networking equipment company in Andover, Massachusetts, in 2003, leading it through its 2017 IPO until stepping down as CEO in 2023.

Jerry Kent

Jerry Kent, formally Jerald L. Kent, is an American cable television and technology entrepreneur from St. Louis who co-founded Charter Communications in 1993 and leads Cequel III and TierPoint.

Jerry Rogers

Jerry Rogers, born Gerald Dean Rogers (1944–2020), was an American semiconductor executive who co-founded chip designer Cyrix in 1988 and led it as CEO until 1996.

Jerry Sanders (semiconductor executive)

Jerry Sanders III, also known as W. J. Sanders III, is an American semiconductor executive who co-founded AMD in 1969 and served as its chief executive for 33 years until 2002.