Age, Biography and Wiki
Wei Yen was born on 16 November, 1952 in Taiwan, Republic of China, is a Chinese-American software developer and entrepreneur. Discover Wei Yen's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 71 years old?
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Technologist and Entrepreneur |
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71 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Scorpio |
| Born |
16 November 1952 |
| Birthday |
16 November |
| Birthplace |
Taiwan, Republic of China |
| Nationality |
Taiwan
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He is a member of famous entrepreneur with the age 71 years old group.
Wei Yen Height, Weight & Measurements
At 71 years old, Wei Yen height not available right now. We will update Wei Yen's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible.
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Dating & Relationship status
He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.
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Wei Yen Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Wei Yen worth at the age of 71 years old? Wei Yen’s income source is mostly from being a successful entrepreneur. He is from Taiwan. We have estimated Wei Yen's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
| Net Worth in 2024 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
| Salary in 2024 |
Under Review |
| Net Worth in 2023 |
Pending |
| Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
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Not Available |
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| Source of Income |
entrepreneur |
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Timeline
Wei Yen is a Taiwanese-American technologist and serial entrepreneur.
He has been involved with several companies, including most recently as Chairman and Founder of AiLive.
Yen received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in Operating Systems and Artificial Intelligence from Purdue University.
Yen and his brother David Yen along with King-Sun Fu published the paper "Data Coherence Problem in a Multicache System" that describes a practical cache coherence protocol.
Yen served as the Director of Software Engineering for Cydrome, where he worked with his brother David, who served as the Director of Hardware Engineering.
They were the major contributors to the Cydra-5 mini-supercomputer.
The system was a combination of a VLIW ECL-based processor used for scientific applications and a multi-processor system designed for a bus architecture based on their Cache Coherence protocol.
Yen served as Senior Vice President of Silicon Graphics from 1988 to 1996, where he led development on OpenGL and also served as President of subsidiary MIPS Technologies.
In 1996, he left SGI and founded TVsoft, a maker of interactive software for television setup devices.
The company was renamed Navio and later merged with Oracle's Network Computer.
Subsequently, the company went public as Liberate Technologies in July 1999.
Its public offering reached a $12 billion valuation in early 2000 with a revenue run rate of $25 million.
In parallel, Yen founded a company called ArtX, employed with former SGI graphics engineers.
ArtX received the contract to deliver the GameCube's Flipper graphics chip.
The company was acquired by ATI in February 2000 for $400 million.
This led to ATI's greatly improved R300 graphics chip family.
Yen later joined ATI's board of directors.
With Nintendo, Yen cofounded another company iQue, the manufacturing and distributing arm of Nintendo for mainland China.
Yen founded iGware, a company that offers cloud computing services to its customers, including Nintendo.
iGware's cloud services power the online services of the Nintendo DS, Wii, Nintendo 3DS, and Wii U.
In July 2011, Acer, of which Yen is a former board member, acquired the US-based iGware for $320 million, and thus iGware becomes a part of Acer's company structure in providing cloud services.
iGware changed its name to Acer Cloud Technology Co. and continued to be headed by Yen.
As a result of the acquisition, Yen is the second largest shareholder of Acer after founder Stan Shih.
Yen is currently the chairman and founder of AiLive, the company that partnered with Nintendo in developing software tools for programmers working with the Wii Remote controller and Wii MotionPlus attachment.
Yen has been on the board of several prominent companies including Acer, ATI, MoSys, and others.
