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Moore Threads was founded in Beijing in 2020 by Zhang Jianzhong, a long-time graphics and semiconductor executive who had previously led Nvidia’s China business. The company set out to build what it calls Universal GPUs capable of graphics, AI, video and scientific-computing workloads on one architecture.
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MongoDB was created by founders including Dwight Merriman, Eliot Horowitz and Kevin Ryan after their work on DoubleClick and a later cloud-platform start-up called 10gen. The team concluded that existing databases were a major constraint on building internet applications and developed a document-oriented database that stored flexible JSON-like records.
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GigaDevice Semiconductor was founded in Beijing in April 2005 as a fabless semiconductor company focused initially on non-volatile memory. The company developed SPI NOR flash products used to store firmware and code inside embedded devices.
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Dassault Systèmes was created in France in 1981 when a team developing computer-aided design software inside aircraft maker Dassault Aviation was spun into a separate company. Its CATIA software helped engineers design complex three-dimensional surfaces for aerospace and other industrial products.
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IQVIA combines two older corporate histories: IMS Health, established in 1954 around healthcare information, and Quintiles, founded in 1982 as a clinical research organisation. The two businesses approached life sciences from different directions, one through data and commercial analytics and the other through drug-development and clinical-trial services.
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Jeff Lawson, Evan Cooke and John Wolthuis founded Twilio in 2008 with the idea that developers should be able to add voice and messaging to software through web APIs instead of specialised telecom infrastructure. The company abstracted telephone-network complexity behind programmable cloud services.
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Credo Technology was founded in 2008 by semiconductor engineers including Bill Brennan and developed around high-speed mixed-signal connectivity technology. The company concentrated on SerDes, signal-processing and interface technologies that allow large amounts of data to move reliably across electrical links.
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Lars Magnus Ericsson founded a telegraph-equipment repair workshop in Stockholm in 1876. The business soon began manufacturing telephones and switching equipment as fixed-line communications spread across Europe.
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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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