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Jiang Weiping
Jiang Weiping (蒋卫平) is the founder of Tianqi Lithium, the Sichuan lithium producer he led as chairman from 2007 until handing the role to his daughter in 2024.
Jiang Xueming
Jiang Xueming (蒋学明), born 1961, is a Chinese semiconductor entrepreneur and former Jiangsu textile magnate who founded the Shanghai memory chip designer Dosilicon in 2014.
Jim Rafferty
Jim Rafferty is a technology entrepreneur who co-founded C-Cube Microsystems, the Milpitas, California, semiconductor company that pioneered MPEG encoder and decoder silicon before its 2001 acquisition by LSI Logic.
Jingjia Micro
Jingjia Micro (景嘉微) is a Chinese fabless chip designer in Changsha, Hunan, founded in 2006, whose JM5400 of 2014 was China's first fully self-owned GPU chip.
Jitendra Mohan
Jitendra Mohan is an Indian-American semiconductor executive who co-founded Astera Labs in 2017 and serves as its chief executive officer, leading its 2024 Nasdaq IPO.
Jodi Shelton
Jodi Shelton is an American business executive who co-founded the Global Semiconductor Alliance in 1994, when it was the Fabless Semiconductor Association, and has led it as chief executive officer since.
John Chowning
John Chowning, born 1934, is an American composer and Stanford professor who discovered FM synthesis in 1967; Stanford licensed it to Yamaha, earning over $20 million and powering the DX7.
John E. Kelly III
John E. Kelly III is an American semiconductor and computing executive who spent 40 years at IBM, led IBM Research and Watson, and retired as executive vice president in 2020.
John P. Daane
John P. Daane is an American semiconductor executive who led Altera as president, CEO, and chairman from 2000 until Intel bought the company for about $16.7 billion in 2015.
John S. Chen
John S. Chen is a Hong Kong-born American technology executive who led Sybase's turnaround and served as BlackBerry's Executive Chair and CEO from 2013 to 2023.
John Tu
John Tu is a Chinese-born engineer who co-founded Kingston Technology with David Sun in 1987, sold 80% to Softbank for $1.5 billion in 1996, and bought it back in 1999.
John Zhong
Zhong Peifeng (钟培峰), also known as John Zhong, is a Chinese-American semiconductor executive, born in 1963, who founded the Shanghai chip designer Amlogic in 2003 and serves as its chairman.
Jonney Shih
Jonney Shih (施崇棠, also romanized Shih Chung-tang), born 1952, is a Taiwanese business executive who has chaired ASUS since 1993, building it into the world's leading motherboard maker.
Jordan Wu
Jordan Wu (吴炳昌) is a Taiwanese semiconductor executive who co-founded Himax Technologies in 2001 and has served as its president and chief executive officer since 2005.
Joseph Hsu
Joseph Hsu (徐祥, Hsu Hsiang), born 1957, is a Taiwanese executive who co-founded computer hardware maker Micro-Star International (MSI) in 1986 and has served as its chairman since.
Joytech
Joytech is the mass-market brand of Joy Industrial Co., Ltd., a Taiwanese bicycle hub and wheelset maker founded in Taichung in 1971 by Chen Chun-hsiung.
K.Y. Lee
K.Y. Lee (李焜耀, Lee Kun-yao) is a Taiwanese technology executive who joined Acer in 1976 and led BenQ and AU Optronics, the world's third-largest LCD panel maker.
Kam Eshghi
Kam Eshghi is a storage-industry executive and co-founder of Lightbits Labs, the San Jose company that developed NVMe over TCP for flash storage over Ethernet networks.
Kang Pao-huang
Kang Pao-huang (康寶煌) was a Taiwanese telecommunications research administrator, first director of Telecommunications Laboratories in 1969 and of the 1974 electronics center that executed the RCA semiconductor technology transfer.
Kanwal Rekhi
Kanwal Rekhi (कनवल रेखी) is an Indian-American technology entrepreneur and investor who co-founded Excelan, a San Jose networking company listed on Nasdaq in 1987, and later co-founded TiE.
Kao Yu-shu
Kao Yu-shu (高玉树) was a Taiwanese engineer and politician who served three times as mayor of Taipei and, as transportation minister, approved the 1974 plan that seeded Taiwan's semiconductor industry.
Kazuma Tateisi (Omron (Tateisi Electric Manufacturing))
Kazuma Tateisi (立石一真, born 1900) was a Japanese engineer-inventor who founded Tateisi Electric Manufacturing in Osaka in 1933 and built it into OMRON, the automation and sensing components maker.
Kazuo Inamori
Kazuo Inamori, also known as Inamori Kazuo (稲盛和夫), was a Japanese entrepreneur who founded Kyocera in Kyoto in 1959, founded DDI, the predecessor of KDDI, and led Japan Airlines after its 2010 bankruptcy.
Kazuo Kashio
Kazuo Kashio (樫尾和雄), also known as Kashio Kazuo, was a Japanese businessman who co-founded Casio in 1957 and led it as president and CEO from 1988 until his death in 2018.
Kazuo Tashima
Kazuo Tashima (田嶋一雄, 1899–1985) was a Japanese businessman who founded the company that became Minolta Camera in 1928, later making the first practical autofocus SLR.
Ken Levy
Ken Levy is an American semiconductor entrepreneur who co-founded KLA Instruments, the Silicon Valley leader in automated chip inspection, and led it as chief executive for about 25 years.
Kenichiro Sato
Kenichiro Sato (佐藤研一郎) was a Japanese engineer and entrepreneur who founded the Kyoto semiconductor maker ROHM and served as its president for 52 years until 2010.
Kim Byung-kuk
Kim Byung-kuk (김병국) is a South Korean semiconductor-equipment entrepreneur, founder and chief executive of ESOL, a Hwaseong-based maker of EUV mask review and inspection tools.
King Slide Works
King Slide Works is a Taiwanese precision slide-rail manufacturer in Kaohsiung, founded in 1986, holding an estimated 70 to 80 percent of the global AI server rail kit market.
KLA Corporation
KLA Corporation, formerly KLA-Tencor and KLA Instruments, is a San Jose semiconductor equipment company founded in 1975 that leads the process-control market with wafer inspection and metrology systems.