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Nexon was founded in South Korea in 1994 by Kim Jung-ju and partners during the early commercial internet era. The company focused from the beginning on online games rather than packaged console software, building worlds that could be updated continuously after launch.
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IREN, originally known as Iris Energy, was founded in Australia in 2018 by brothers Daniel and Will Roberts with a strategy of building data-centre infrastructure near renewable and low-cost energy. The first major workload was Bitcoin mining, where electricity cost and data-centre efficiency directly determine economics.
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MACOM’s roots stretch back to the 1950s through Microwave Associates, an early supplier of microwave semiconductor and component technology. The company developed radio-frequency and microwave products for communications, defence and industrial applications.
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Tyler Technologies traces its corporate roots to Saturn Industries, founded in 1966. The business later adopted the Tyler name and spent decades transforming from a diversified industrial holding company into a specialist in public-sector software. Unlike many software companies, Tyler’s modern identity emerged through divestitures and acquisitions rather than from one original software product.
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Leaf Hua Li founded Futu in Hong Kong in 2012 after a long career at Tencent, where he had worked on QQ and other major internet products. Futu built a digital brokerage aimed at giving technology-oriented investors a more integrated trading, market-data and community experience.
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Tongfu Microelectronics traces its roots to Nantong Fujitsu Microelectronics, established in the 1990s as a semiconductor packaging and testing business in Nantong, China. The company developed around outsourced semiconductor assembly and test, the back-end processes that turn fabricated dies into usable packaged chips.
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Cheng Wei founded Didi Dache in Beijing in 2012 after working at Alibaba, launching a mobile taxi-hailing service as smartphones were rapidly changing urban transport. The app matched passengers with licensed taxi drivers before expanding into private ride-hailing and other mobility services.
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Samuel Geisberg founded Parametric Technology Corporation in 1985 with the aim of making computer-aided mechanical design more intelligent through parametric modelling. Its Pro/ENGINEER software linked dimensions and relationships so design changes could automatically propagate through a model.
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Inspur traces its roots to electronics and computer operations established in Shandong, China, during the 1940s and 1950s, later developing into a major domestic computing group. The company became associated with servers, enterprise computing and business software as China’s information-technology industry expanded.
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Lattice Semiconductor was founded in Oregon in 1983 and entered the programmable-logic market during the expansion of custom digital electronics. The company developed programmable devices that customers could configure after manufacturing rather than commission a fully custom ASIC.
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