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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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World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee challenged MIT researchers in 1995 to find a better way to handle growing web congestion. Applied-mathematics professor Tom Leighton and graduate student Danny Lewin developed algorithms for distributed content delivery and incorporated Akamai in August 1998 with Jonathan Seelig and Randall Kaplan. Rather than build a larger central server, the early Akamai idea distributed copies of content across many servers and routed users to nearby capacity.
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Topicus.com Inc. took its current public-company form in January 2021 when Constellation Software combined its Total Specific Solutions operating group with Netherlands-based Topicus.com B.V. and spun the enlarged business out to shareholders. The operating businesses behind Topicus predate the 2021 corporate structure and were built around vertical-market software for public-sector and commercial niches.
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JD Health grew out of the healthcare activities of Chinese e-commerce group JD.com, combining online pharmacy retail with digital health services before being reorganised into a dedicated healthcare subsidiary. The early model used JD.com’s logistics and commerce infrastructure to sell medicines and health products online while gradually adding consultations and other healthcare services.
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Guidewire was founded in 2001 by six entrepreneurs who believed property-and-casualty insurers needed modern core systems that could replace ageing policy, claims and billing software. The company began by focusing on claims, a mission-critical process where insurers needed configurable systems able to handle complex rules without relying on decades-old mainframe code.
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MiniMax was founded in early 2022 as an AI foundation-model company focused on building multimodal systems spanning text, audio, images, video and music. Unlike older software companies that added generative AI to existing products, MiniMax began during the foundation-model era and built its identity around large models from the start.
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SCREEN traces its roots to Saijiro Ishida’s 1868 printing works in Kyoto. Research into glass screens for photographic reproduction led to Dainippon Screen Mfg. Works in 1937 and the incorporation of Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd. in 1943. The original ‘screen’ referred to finely ruled glass plates used to create halftone images for printing, not electronic displays.
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Advantech was established in Taiwan in the early 1980s by K.C. Liu and partners, formally beginning operations in 1983. The company initially developed computer modules and measurement-automation systems for industrial customers rather than general consumer PCs.
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Hwatsing Technology was established in China to develop semiconductor manufacturing equipment, with particular emphasis on chemical mechanical planarisation systems. CMP flattens wafer surfaces between process steps, making it possible to build many precise layers without accumulated topography destroying later lithography.
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