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TE Connectivity’s roots include AMP Incorporated, founded in 1941 by brothers U.A. Whitaker and J. Allen Whitaker to develop solderless electrical connections. AMP’s crimp-style terminals and connectors simplified reliable electrical connections in mass-produced equipment.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise was created on 1 November 2015 when Hewlett-Packard separated its enterprise technology operations from the personal-computer and printer business that became HP Inc. HPE inherited servers, storage, networking, services and other enterprise assets from a corporate lineage that stretched back to Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard’s 1939 garage partnership.
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Forrest Li founded the company that became Sea Limited in 2009 in Singapore, initially building Garena as a digital-entertainment and online-game platform. Garena distributed and operated online games across Southeast Asia, giving the company an early digital user base in a region where mobile internet adoption was accelerating.
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Aart de Geus co-founded Synopsys in 1986 after developing ideas for automated logic synthesis while working at General Electric. The company’s breakthrough was software that could translate a higher-level description of digital logic into a gate-level implementation, reducing the amount of manual design work required as chips became more complex.
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Lumentum became an independent company on 1 August 2015 when JDS Uniphase separated its Communications and Commercial Optical Products business. The new company inherited optical components for telecommunications and data networks alongside commercial laser technology used in manufacturing and other applications.
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Brothers Jason Chang and Richard Chang established Advanced Semiconductor Engineering in 1984 and opened the company’s first factory in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. ASE focused on semiconductor assembly and packaging, the stage that protects a fabricated die, connects it electrically and prepares it for use in an electronic system.
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Vlad Tenev and Baiju Bhatt met at Stanford, later moved to New York and built trading technology for financial institutions before founding Robinhood in 2013. Their core proposition was commission-free stock trading through a mobile-first interface aimed at people who had been poorly served by traditional brokerage products.
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Cambricon Technologies was founded in Beijing in 2016 by researchers associated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, including brothers Chen Tianshi and Chen Yunji, after years of work on processors designed for artificial-intelligence workloads. The company concentrated on specialised processor architectures for neural-network inference and training rather than general-purpose CPUs.
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Delta Electronics (Thailand) was established in 1988 as Delta Group’s first overseas location. The Thai operation began with electronic components and power-related manufacturing. Its early production included magnetic and EMI filters before the business expanded into switching power supplies, thermal management and more complex electronics.
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Cloudflare grew from Project Honey Pot, a system Matthew Prince and Lee Holloway created in 2004 to study how spammers harvested email addresses. Prince later met Michelle Zatlyn at Harvard Business School, and the three co-founded Cloudflare in 2009. The founders wanted to move from observing malicious traffic to blocking it while also making websites faster.
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