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Long Daqiang
Long Daqiang (龙大强), born 1973, is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded Solarspace, a solar cell manufacturer in Xuzhou, Jiangsu, that rose to second among global cell makers in 2024.
LONGi Green Energy
LONGi Green Energy, also known as LONGi Solar (隆基绿能), is a Chinese manufacturer of monocrystalline silicon wafers and solar modules, founded by Li Zhenguo in 2000 and the world's largest monocrystalline silicon maker by 2013.
LSI Computer Systems, Inc.
LSI Computer Systems, Inc. (LSI/CSI) is a privately held semiconductor company in Melville, New York, founded in 1969 by Attila Tetik and Alvin Kaplan to design custom integrated circuits.
LSI Logic
LSI Logic was an American semiconductor company founded in 1980 by Wilfred Corrigan in Milpitas, California, that pioneered the ASIC business model and was acquired by Avago Technologies for $6.6 billion.
Lü Guangquan
Lü Guangquan (吕光泉, born 1965) is a Chinese-American semiconductor equipment engineer and chairman of Piotech, a Shenyang maker of thin-film deposition equipment, after a twenty-year career at Novellus and AIXTRON.
Lu Hsueh-ju
Lu Hsueh-ju (吕学儒) is a Taiwanese entrepreneur, founder and chairman of ZEMO, an all-electric corporate chauffeur fleet company founded in Taipei in 2021 after he worked on Yulon Group's Luxgen electric vehicle program.
Lu Weibing
Lu Weibing (卢伟冰) is a Chinese technology executive, born in 1975, who ran the phone maker Gionee before joining Xiaomi in 2019, rising to Group President in 2022.
Lü Xiangyang
Lü Xiangyang (吕向阳, born 1962) is a Chinese investor who co-founded BYD in 1995 and founded Rongjie Investment Holding Group, parent of lithium producer Rongjie Co.
Lu Xinchun
Lu Xinchun (路新春, born 1966) is a Cheung Kong Scholar professor at Tsinghua University and founder of Hwatsing Technology, China's leading supplier of 12-inch CMP equipment for chip manufacturing.
Luo Jinhong
Luo Jinhong (骆锦红, born 1967) is a Chinese battery entrepreneur who co-founded lithium battery maker EVE Energy in 2001 and co-controls it with her husband Liu Jincheng.
Luo Liguo
Luo Liguo (罗立国, born 1956) is a Chinese entrepreneur from Zhejiang who founded and chairs Hoshine Silicon Industry, the Shanghai-listed global leader in industrial silicon and siloxanes.
Luxshare Precision Industry
Luxshare Precision Industry is a Chinese precision manufacturer founded in 2004 by Wang Laichun, known for assembling Apple products including AirPods, the iPhone, and the Vision Pro headset.
M.T. Liao
M.T. Liao (廖敏雄, Liao Min-hsiung) is a Taiwanese businessman who co-founded Asus in Taipei in 1989 with three fellow Acer engineers, starting with Taiwan's first 486 motherboard.
Mabuchi Motor
Mabuchi Motor (マブチモーター) is a Japanese manufacturer of small electric motors, founded in 1954, holding over 80% of the world market for automotive mirror motors.
Macronix International Co., Ltd.
Macronix International Co., Ltd. (旺宏电子) is a Taiwanese integrated device manufacturer of non-volatile memory, producing NOR flash, NAND flash, and mask ROM. Miin Wu founded it in 1989.
Magma Design Automation
Magma Design Automation was a San Jose, California maker of electronic design automation software for chips, founded in 1997 and absorbed by Synopsys in 2012 for about $523 million.
Mark Durcan
Mark Durcan is an American semiconductor executive who was CEO of Micron Technology from 2012 to 2017, leading the Elpida acquisition and winning the industry's Robert N. Noyce Award.
Mark Horowitz (electrical engineer)
Mark Horowitz is an American electrical engineer and Stanford professor, chair of its electrical engineering department since 2023, who co-founded Rambus in 1990 and served as its chief scientist.
Martin van den Brink
Martin van den Brink, born 1957, is a Dutch engineer who joined ASML in 1984 and led its technology as CTO until retiring in 2024.
Martin Wood (physicist)
Sir Martin Wood (1927–2021) was a British physicist and entrepreneur who co-founded Oxford Instruments in 1959 with his wife Audrey, Oxford University's first spin-out company.
Marvell Technology
Marvell Technology, also known as Marvell Semiconductor, is an American fabless semiconductor company founded in 1995 that supplies data infrastructure chips, especially for data centers and AI.
Mary Jane Irwin
Mary Jane Irwin is an American computer scientist, Emerita Evan Pugh University Professor at Penn State, who anticipated power as a central chip design constraint and shaped the EDA industry.
Masahiro Suemitsu (SPACECOOL株式会社)
Masahiro Suemitsu (末光真大) is a Japanese engineer-entrepreneur who co-founded SPACECOOL, a Tokyo climate-tech company spun out of Osaka Gas in 2021, joining as CTO and becoming CEO in 2024.
Matthew Lorber
Matthew Lorber, also known as Matt Lorber, was an American engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded the semiconductor company Analog Devices in 1965 and later founded Copley Controls.
Matthew Miau
Matthew Miau, also known as Miao Feng-chiang (苗丰强), is a Taiwanese business executive who chairs MiTAC Holdings; a former Intel engineer, he founded MiTAC International in 1982.
Maxim Integrated
Maxim Integrated Products, also called Maxim Integrated, was an American semiconductor company founded in 1983 that made analog chips and was acquired by Analog Devices in 2021.
Maxtor Corporation
Maxtor Corporation was an American hard disk drive manufacturer founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, growing into one of the world's largest drive makers before Seagate acquired it in 2006.
MegaChips Corporation
MegaChips Corporation (株式会社メガチップス) is a Japanese fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Osaka, founded in 1990, designing custom ASICs and system LSIs for entertainment and imaging devices.
Mellanox Technologies
Mellanox Technologies was an Israeli semiconductor company founded by Eyal Waldman in 1999, headquartered in Yokneam, that made InfiniBand and Ethernet interconnects for data centers and supercomputers.
Memorex
Memorex is an American consumer electronics brand founded in 1961 as a Silicon Valley maker of magnetic computer tape, famous for the slogan "Is it live or is it Memorex?"