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Siemens spun out its semiconductor arm — Infineon turned it into a power, automotive and security giant

Benjamin

Infineon Technologies was created in 1999 when Siemens separated its semiconductor business into a standalone company. The new group inherited decades of German chip-development and manufacturing experience. Infineon’s portfolio covered memory, communications, automotive and industrial semiconductors before the company gradually reshaped itself around markets where specialised analogue, power and embedded technology mattered most.

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Two former colleagues wanted developers and operators to share one view: the history of Datadog

Benjamin

Olivier Pomel and Alexis Lê-Quôc founded Datadog in 2010 after working together at Wireless Generation and seeing how difficult it was for development and operations teams to understand the same production systems. They created a cloud monitoring service that could collect metrics from increasingly distributed infrastructure and present them in one shared interface.

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The internet needed neutral meeting places: how Equinix built a global data-centre network

Benjamin

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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From academic AI processors to listed accelerator company: the rise of Cambricon Technologies

Benjamin

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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