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.

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Lip-Bu Tan canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf businessperson
technology executive
boardMemberOf Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc. (AMEC) NERFINISHED
Cadence Design Systems NERFINISHED
SoftBank Group (former) NERFINISHED
Walmart NERFINISHED
other technology companies
citizenship Singapore NERFINISHED
United States of America
surface form: United States
degree Bachelor’s degree in physics
MBA
Master’s degree in nuclear engineering
educatedAt Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nanyang University NERFINISHED
University of San Francisco NERFINISHED
employer Cadence Design Systems NERFINISHED
ethnicity Chinese Singaporean
fieldOfWork electronic design automation
semiconductor design
technology investing
founded Walden International NERFINISHED
industry electronic design automation industry
semiconductor industry
venture capital industry
investmentFocus electronics
semiconductors
systems and software
knownFor investments in electronics and systems companies
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
expanded Cadence Design Systems into system design and verification
helped turn around Cadence Design Systems after a period of instability
occupation CEO
board member
chairman
venture capitalist
positionHeld Chairman of Walden International
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
surface form: California

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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.
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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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Robert N. Noyce Award hasAwarded Lip-Bu Tan