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Nanya Technology was established in Taiwan in 1995 as part of the Formosa Plastics Group’s move into semiconductors. The company concentrated on dynamic random-access memory, or DRAM, a market where scale, manufacturing yields and rapid process transitions determine competitiveness.
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Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc. China, commonly known as AMEC, was founded in Shanghai in 2004 by semiconductor-equipment veteran Gerald Yin and a team with international industry experience. The company set out to develop advanced wafer-fabrication equipment locally, beginning with plasma etch and later expanding into deposition and other process technologies.
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Former Apple executive Trip Hawkins founded Electronic Arts in 1982 with the belief that computer-game creators should be recognised and marketed more like musicians, filmmakers and other artists. The company published games from independent developers and used distinctive album-style packaging that put creators prominently on the product.
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PayPal’s roots begin with Confinity, founded in 1998 by Max Levchin, Peter Thiel and colleagues, and X.com, the online financial company Elon Musk founded in 1999. Confinity developed digital-payment software and shifted towards email-based money transfers, while X.com pursued a broader internet-banking model.
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Keysight Technologies traces its technical roots to the electronic measurement business Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard started in 1939. The measurement operation later became part of Agilent Technologies when Hewlett-Packard split in 1999. Agilent combined test-and-measurement technology with life-sciences and semiconductor-related businesses, preserving the engineering lineage of HP’s original instrument company.
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Zhipu AI was founded in Beijing in 2019 by researchers with roots in Tsinghua University’s Knowledge Engineering Group, including professor Tang Jie and collaborators working on large-scale knowledge and language models. The company commercialised academic AI research around pre-trained models, knowledge graphs and natural-language systems.
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Gary Burrell and Min Kao founded Garmin in 1989 in the Kansas City area after working in navigation technology. The company name combines parts of their first names. Garmin focused on Global Positioning System receivers when satellite navigation was still specialised equipment used mainly in aviation, marine and professional markets.
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Entrepreneur Wang Xing founded Meituan in 2010 during a wave of Chinese group-buying start-ups inspired by the success of daily-deal services. Meituan initially offered discounted local services but quickly moved towards a broader marketplace connecting consumers with restaurants, hotels, entertainment and other nearby businesses.
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NAURA Technology Group emerged from the consolidation and reorganisation of Chinese semiconductor-equipment businesses associated with Beijing Sevenstar Electronics and Beijing North Microelectronics. Its predecessor companies developed equipment and electronic components for semiconductor and related high-technology manufacturing in Beijing.
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Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation was founded in 2000 by semiconductor executive Richard Chang and established its first major manufacturing base in Shanghai. SMIC was built as a pure-play foundry that would manufacture chips designed by other companies, following a business model already proven in Taiwan.
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