Semiconductors

Jensen Huang

Co-founder and CEO of Nvidia, the chipmaker at the heart of the AI boom

Born 1963

Carver Mead

Caltech engineer who revolutionised chip design and coined “Moore’s law”

Born 1934

Lisa Su

CEO of AMD who led one of the great turnarounds in the chip industry

Born 1969

Jim Keller

Chip architect behind AMD’s Zen, Apple’s A-series and Tesla’s self-driving chip

Paul Otellini

Intel CEO from 2005 to 2013 who moved Apple’s Macs to Intel chips

1950 – 2017

Pat Gelsinger

Engineer who led the Intel 486 design and was Intel CEO from 2021 to 2024

Born 1961

Morris Chang

Founder of TSMC and creator of the chip-foundry business model

Born 1931

Hock Tan

Malaysian-born CEO who built Broadcom into a chip and software giant

Dov Frohman

Inventor of EPROM memory and founder of Intel Israel

Born 1939

Craig Barrett

Materials scientist who was Intel’s CEO from 1998 to 2005

Born 1939

Andy Grove

Hungarian-born Intel CEO who turned it into the world’s largest chipmaker

1936 – 2016

Weili Dai

Co-founder of Marvell Technology, one of the few women to co-found a major chip company

Curtis Priem

Engineer who co-founded Nvidia and designed its first chips

Chris Malachowsky

Engineer who co-founded Nvidia

Born 1959