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Andrew Feldman, Gary Lauterbach, Michael James, Sean Lie and Jean-Philippe Fricker founded Cerebras Systems in 2015 with the goal of building an AI processor at wafer scale. Instead of cutting a processed silicon wafer into many separate dies, the team designed around an enormous interconnected processor spanning most of a wafer.
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Renesas Electronics was formed in 2010 through the merger of Renesas Technology and NEC Electronics, bringing together semiconductor businesses with roots in Hitachi, Mitsubishi Electric and NEC. The combined company became a major supplier of microcontrollers and automotive semiconductors.
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Expedia began inside Microsoft and launched as an online travel-booking service in 1996, allowing consumers to research and purchase travel directly through the web. The site was part of a broader internet-era shift that reduced dependence on traditional travel agents for routine bookings.
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Nippon Electric Company was established in Japan in 1899 as a joint venture associated with Western Electric, making it one of the country’s earliest companies built around communications technology. The business began with telephone and switching equipment before expanding into broadcasting, computers and semiconductors.
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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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Nanya Technology was established in Taiwan in 1995 as part of the Formosa Plastics Group’s move into semiconductors. The company concentrated on dynamic random-access memory, or DRAM, a market where scale, manufacturing yields and rapid process transitions determine competitiveness.
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Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri founded Workday in 2005 after Oracle acquired PeopleSoft, the enterprise-software company Duffield had previously founded. They set out to build human-resources and financial-management applications natively for internet delivery rather than adapting an older client-server suite.
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