Rank #255
Tsai Ming-kai
Net worth $12.3B
Semiconductors · Taiwan
- Born
- Apr 06, 1950
- Age
- 76
- Source
- Semiconductors
- Residence
- Hsinchu
- Citizenship
- Taiwan
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
- Bachelor of Engineering, National Taiwan University; Master of Science in Engineering, University of Cincinnati
Net worth over time
Biography
- Tsai Ming-kai is the chairman of smartphone chipmaker MediaTek, which was spun off from another company he ran.
- Faced with escalating competition in a plateauing sector, Tsai brought in Rick Tsai (who is not related) in 2018. Rick now serves as vice chairman and CEO.
- Tsai studied electrical engineering first in Taiwan and later in the U.S.
- Long-regarded as the father of Taiwan's chip-design industry, Tsai was nicknamed "King of the Bandit Phones" since MediaTek powered mainly low-end mobile phones.
- Tsai joined United Microelectronics, one of Taiwan's earliest chip companies, in 1983 and climbed the ladder to run its consumer-and-multimedia product business.
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