Tsai Ming-kai (; born 6 April 1950, in

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) is a Taiwanese entrepreneur, currently Chairman of

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. In 2014, according to

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he was ranked 20th Taiwanese by net worth ($1.80 billion). In 2014 he was 21st in the "Best-Performing CEOs in the World" ranking by ''

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''. In 2016 he received the Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award for pioneering the Taiwan semiconductor design industry. Tsai was awarded the 2024 IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal.

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