Semiconductors

NVIDIA is a Santa Clara public company that designs GPUs and AI accelerators; it was co-founded by Taiwanese-American engineer Jensen Huang.

TSMC is a Hsinchu-headquartered technology company that manufactures logic chips for other semiconductor companies as a pure-play foundry.

MediaTek is a Hsinchu-headquartered technology company that designs fabless chips for phones, televisions, and other consumer devices.

SMIC is a Shanghai-headquartered technology company that operates a pure-play semiconductor foundry in mainland China.

UMC is a Hsinchu-headquartered technology company that manufactures semiconductors as a foundry spun out of ITRI.

Cambricon is a Beijing-headquartered technology company that designs AI processor chips and related accelerators.

Horizon Robotics is a Beijing-headquartered technology company that designs AI chips for driver-assistance and autonomous vehicles.

Bitmain is a Beijing-headquartered technology company that designs ASIC chips and mining machines for bitcoin.

Marvell is a Santa Clara-headquartered technology company that designs semiconductors for data infrastructure, storage, and networking.

GigaDevice is a Beijing-headquartered technology company that designs flash memory, microcontrollers, and related chips.

Jensen Huang is a Taiwanese-American engineer who co-founded NVIDIA and serves as its president and chief executive.

Morris Chang is a Taiwanese-American engineer who founded TSMC.

Tsai Ming-kai is a Taiwanese engineer who led the founding generation of MediaTek.

Richard Chang is a Chinese-born engineer who founded SMIC.

Robert Tsao is a Taiwanese entrepreneur associated with the founding era of UMC.

Chen Tianshi is a Chinese computer architect who co-founded Cambricon.

Yu Kai is a Chinese AI researcher who founded Horizon Robotics.

Jihan Wu is a Chinese entrepreneur who co-founded Bitmain.

Sehat Sutardja is an Indonesian Chinese engineer who co-founded Marvell Technology.

Zhu Yiming is a Chinese engineer who founded GigaDevice.