Lip-Bu Tan
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Lip-Bu Tan is a prominent technology executive and venture capitalist best known as the longtime CEO of Cadence Design Systems and a leading investor in the semiconductor and electronics industries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lip-Bu Tan canonical | 1 |
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
businessperson
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technology executive ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf |
Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc. (AMEC)
NERFINISHED
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Cadence Design Systems NERFINISHED ⓘ SoftBank Group (former) NERFINISHED ⓘ Walmart NERFINISHED ⓘ other technology companies ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Singapore
NERFINISHED
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United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| degree |
Bachelor’s degree in physics
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MBA ⓘ Master’s degree in nuclear engineering ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Nanyang University NERFINISHED ⓘ University of San Francisco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Cadence Design Systems NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Chinese Singaporean ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
electronic design automation
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semiconductor design ⓘ technology investing ⓘ |
| founded | Walden International NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry |
electronic design automation industry
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semiconductor industry ⓘ venture capital industry ⓘ |
| investmentFocus |
electronics
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semiconductors ⓘ systems and software ⓘ |
| knownFor |
investments in electronics and systems companies
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investments in semiconductor companies ⓘ leadership at Cadence Design Systems ⓘ |
| name | Lip-Bu Tan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAward | industry leadership recognitions in EDA and semiconductors ⓘ |
| notableRole |
early investor in multiple fabless semiconductor companies
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expanded Cadence Design Systems into system design and verification ⓘ helped turn around Cadence Design Systems after a period of instability ⓘ |
| occupation |
CEO
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board member ⓘ chairman ⓘ venture capitalist ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chairman of Walden International
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Chief Executive Officer of Cadence Design Systems ⓘ Executive Chairman of Cadence Design Systems ⓘ Founder of Walden International ⓘ President of Cadence Design Systems ⓘ |
| residence |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
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How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Lip-Bu Tan Description of subject: Lip-Bu Tan is a prominent technology executive and venture capitalist best known as the longtime CEO of Cadence Design Systems and a leading investor in the semiconductor and electronics industries.
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