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Cadence Design Systems was created in 1988 through the merger of ECAD and SDA Systems, two electronic-design-automation companies serving the rapidly growing semiconductor industry. The combined company developed software that helped engineers design integrated circuits at a level of complexity that was becoming impossible to manage manually.
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Xiaomi was founded in Beijing on 6 April 2010 by Lei Jun and a group of co-founders with backgrounds in software, hardware and internet businesses. The company’s first major product was MIUI, an Android-based software interface, released before Xiaomi launched its own smartphone hardware.
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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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Equinix was founded in 1998 by Jay Adelson and Al Avery, who recognised that rapidly growing internet networks needed neutral facilities where carriers, content companies and service providers could connect directly. The company called those facilities International Business Exchange, or IBX, data centres and built its first sites around dense network interconnection rather than simple server floor space.
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Henry Taub founded Automatic Payrolls in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1949 after seeing local businesses struggle with payroll. Bookkeeping machines gave way to computers, online services and a global human-capital-management platform.
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John Warnock and Charles Geschke founded Adobe in 1982 to rethink digital printing. PostScript, Illustrator, Photoshop, PDF, Creative Cloud and Firefly repeatedly moved the company into new layers of creative and document software.
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Scott Cook conceived Intuit in 1983 after watching his wife struggle with the household checkbook. Cook and programmer Tom Proulx created Quicken to use the emerging personal computer as a simpler way to manage personal finances. Intuit began from Cook’s Palo Alto home and garage, building consumer financial software rather than large enterprise systems.
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AppLovin was founded in 2012 by Adam Foroughi and a small group of performance marketers. The company says the founders began with an $8 domain and bootstrapped the business around mobile advertising. It first worked closely with independent mobile-game developers, using data and advertising tools to help them acquire users and grow revenue.
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