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Nan Ya PCB began as a printed-circuit-board division of Nan Ya Plastics in 1985 and was established as a separate subsidiary in Taiwan in 1997. The company produced printed circuit boards before moving into higher-density interconnection and semiconductor substrate technologies.
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Keysight Technologies traces its technical roots to the electronic measurement business Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard started in 1939. The measurement operation later became part of Agilent Technologies when Hewlett-Packard split in 1999. Agilent combined test-and-measurement technology with life-sciences and semiconductor-related businesses, preserving the engineering lineage of HP’s original instrument company.
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Gary Burrell and Min Kao founded Garmin in 1989 in the Kansas City area after working in navigation technology. The company name combines parts of their first names. Garmin focused on Global Positioning System receivers when satellite navigation was still specialised equipment used mainly in aviation, marine and professional markets.
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Konosuke Matsushita founded the business that became Panasonic in Osaka in 1918 with his wife Mumeno and brother-in-law Toshio Iue. The first successful products included an improved attachment plug and later bicycle lamps, reflecting Matsushita’s focus on practical electrical goods that could reach mass-market customers.
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NAURA Technology Group emerged from the consolidation and reorganisation of Chinese semiconductor-equipment businesses associated with Beijing Sevenstar Electronics and Beijing North Microelectronics. Its predecessor companies developed equipment and electronic components for semiconductor and related high-technology manufacturing in Beijing.
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Akira Murata founded Murata Seisakusho in Kyoto in 1944, initially producing ceramic components for radios and other electronic equipment. The business was incorporated as Murata Manufacturing in 1950. Its expertise in ceramics became the technical foundation for capacitors, filters and other passive components that manage signals and power inside electronic devices.
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Unimicron Technology was founded in Taiwan in 1990 and developed around printed circuit boards used to connect electronic components inside products. The company built manufacturing expertise in multilayer PCBs as computers and communications equipment demanded denser electrical interconnection.
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TE Connectivity’s roots include AMP Incorporated, founded in 1941 by brothers U.A. Whitaker and J. Allen Whitaker to develop solderless electrical connections. AMP’s crimp-style terminals and connectors simplified reliable electrical connections in mass-produced equipment.
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The modern Coherent Corp. follows the corporate lineage of II-VI Incorporated, founded in 1971 by Carl Johnson and colleagues to commercialise compound-semiconductor materials and infrared optical technology. II-VI took its name from the groups in the periodic table used to describe compound semiconductor materials such as zinc selenide.
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Xiaomi was founded in Beijing on 6 April 2010 by Lei Jun and a group of co-founders with backgrounds in software, hardware and internet businesses. The company’s first major product was MIUI, an Android-based software interface, released before Xiaomi launched its own smartphone hardware.
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