Tsai Ming-kai

$3.84B
as of 07/05/24

About Tsai Ming-kai

Tsai Ming-kai chairs 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.

Personal stats

Citizenship

Taiwan, Province of China

Source of wealth

Semiconductors

Residence

Hsinchu, Taiwan, Province of China

Marital status

Married

Birth date

04/06/50 (age 74)

Number of children

2

Education

Bachelor of Engineering, National Taiwan University; Master of Science in Engineering, University of Cincinnati

Self-made

self-made

Tsai Ming-kai’s fortune is worth

64K

troy ounces of gold

59K

median U.S. household

38K

median U.S. income

0.077%

U.S. credit card volume

0.015%

GDP of the United States

0.011%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

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.

Net worth over time

Real-time ranking

Financial assets

TAIWAN | 2454-TW

Mediatek

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