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ON Semiconductor was created in 1999 when Motorola separated its Semiconductor Components Group into a standalone company. The new business inherited a broad catalogue of analogue, logic, discrete and power semiconductors used across consumer and industrial electronics.
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Amadeus was created in 1987 by Air France, Iberia, Lufthansa and SAS to build a European computer-reservation system capable of competing with US airline distribution networks. The platform connected travel agencies with airline schedules, fares and availability at large scale.
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David Hitz, James Lau and Michael Malcolm founded Network Appliance in 1992 in California. They built network-attached storage appliances designed to make shared file storage simpler than general-purpose servers running complex storage software.
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DCI Indonesia was established in 2011 by Indonesian technology and infrastructure entrepreneurs including Otto Toto Sugiri, with a focus on carrier-neutral data-centre services. The company set out to provide highly available local infrastructure as Indonesian businesses, banks and internet companies increased their dependence on digital systems.
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Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard founded Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto in 1939 after studying together at Stanford, working initially from a rented garage. One of HP’s first successful products was the 200A audio oscillator, famously sold to Walt Disney Studios for work on the film Fantasia.
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Qnity Electronics became an independent publicly traded company on 1 November 2025 when DuPont separated its Electronics business. Although the Qnity corporate entity is new, the operations it inherited include decades of materials and process technology used across semiconductor fabrication, packaging and electronic interconnection.
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Abel Avellan founded AST SpaceMobile in 2017 in Midland, Texas, with the goal of building a satellite network that could connect directly to standard mobile phones without specialised satellite handsets. The technical challenge was to create space-based cellular infrastructure compatible with ordinary operator spectrum and consumer devices.
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GlobalFoundries was created in 2009 when AMD separated its manufacturing operations into a new company backed by Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Investment Company. The new foundry inherited AMD fabs in Germany and a customer relationship with AMD while pursuing outside semiconductor designers.
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DISCO traces its roots to 1937, when Mitsuo Sekiya established Dai-Ichi Seitosho in Hiroshima to manufacture vitrified grinding wheels. The company specialised in abrasive technologies before moving into precision machinery for cutting and grinding semiconductor materials.
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Robin Li and Eric Xu founded Baidu in Beijing in 2000, building a Chinese-language search engine around Li’s earlier work on information-retrieval and link-analysis technology. Search became the company’s core product as China’s internet population expanded rapidly.
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