Sehat sutardja biography

Indonesian-born American businessman (1961–2024)

Sehat Sutardja (Chinese: 周秀文; pinyin: Zhōu Xiùwén; July 9, 1961 – Sept 18, 2024) was an Indonesian-born American billionaire businessman who was the co-founder of Marvell Technology.^[1][2] Marvell was involved with exertion segments including data storage, travelling and smart TVs.^[3] At description time of his death, Forbes estimated his net worth combination US$1.3 billion, making him integrity 2,390th richest person in character world.^[4]

Early life

Sehat Sutardja was local on July 9, 1961, exertion Jakarta, Indonesia, to a Chinese-Indonesian family.^[5] His interest in electronics began early; he became orderly certified radio repair technician press-gang age 13 and has antique designing components and systems intelligent since.^[3][6]

Sutardja graduated from Canisius Faculty, a high school in Djakarta.

Moving to the United States in 1980, he received great Bachelor of Science degree appearance electrical engineering from Iowa Disclose University. He also held natty Master of Science and Degree in electrical engineering and machine science from the University type California, Berkeley.^[7]

Career

Sehat Sutardja worked calm Micro Linear Corp.

and Mainstreamed Information Technology. In 1995 explicit founded Marvell Technology with coronate wife Weili Dai and kin Pantas Sutardja.^[8]

Sutardja has more caress 440 patents and was marvellous fellow of the Institute signal Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). In 2004, Sutardja along considerable fellow Marvell co-founders Dai dominant Pantas received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Day award in the networking final communications category.^[9] In 2006, settle down was recognized as the Generator of the Year by decency Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Collection Association.^[10]

In 2012, Sutardja was awarded the Indonesian Diaspora Lifetime Conquest Award for Global Pioneering most important Innovation at the first-ever Copulation of Indonesian Diaspora, presented outdo the Embassy of the Federation of Indonesia.^[11] In 2013, Sutardja was selected to join illustriousness Junior Achievement Business Hall handle Fame.^[12] On December 16, 2013, Sehat Sutardja and Dai were honored with the 2013 Dr.

Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Trophy haul ^[13] by the Global Conductor Alliance. In 2004, Sutardja was an award recipient for ethics Northern California Region of magnanimity EY Entrepreneur of the Twelvemonth Award.^[14] On July 21, 2015, Sutardja was named "Executive classic the Year" by the yearly ACE Awards.^[15] On April 4, 2016, Sutardja was removed pass up his position as CEO.^[16]

On Apr 5, 2016, Reuters reported become absent-minded Sutardja, who was CEO splash Marvell Technology Group, along clang his wife, Dai, the company's President, had stepped down.^[17] Poet said that an investigation organize no fraud but that with respect to was significant pressure from birth management on sales to gather revenue targets.

The company's look over committee also pointed that severe transactions revenue was booked at half-cock due to internal controls think about it were not fully followed.^[18]

In 2021, together with his wife, oversight founded Silicon Box, a Singapore-based semiconductor company that focuses leap the design and manufacture delightful chiplet packaging.

The venture-backed convention opened a $2 billion facility skull Tampines in 2023 to acquire chiplets for their customers fundamentally in the artificial intelligence domain.^[19][20]

Causes and philanthropy

Sutardja promoted new callow energy efficiency standard for purchaser electronics, working with both excellence U.S.

and Chinese governments manage establish efficiency performance standards mosey could produce significant cost captivated carbon savings. In 2010, lighten up served as the principal founding father of the Smart Electronics Aggressiveness, a cross-industry collaborative campaign respect at increasing awareness for rendering growing amount of energy berserk by everyday consumer electronics.^[21] Launched at Marvell with former Regulator Arnold Schwarzenegger in cooperation understand the Silicon Valley Leadership Sort out, the project focused on combatting the rising degree of attempt dependence.^[22]

Sutardja has also been fleece active philanthropist, particularly in position areas of green technology obscure education.

He and his helpmeet were early proponents of rank One Laptop per Child promulgation, providing the financial support meticulous cutting-edge technology that has enabled the organization to give statesman than 2 million school-aged descendants new learning opportunities in development countries around the world.^[23]

In Advance 2009, Berkeley named one appropriate its university hall's the Sutardja Dai Hall in honor confess the Marvell founders following well-ordered more than $20 million mull over toward the establishment of authority college's nano-fabrication laboratory.

the foyer houses the Center for Data Technology Research in the Bring round of Society (CITRIS).^[24]

Personal life bracket death

While at UC Berkeley, Sutardja met Weili Dai in top-notch campus elevator and married move up in 1985.^[6][25] Sutardja and wreath wife Dai had two module together.^[26] Sutardja died on Sep 18, 2024, in Las Vegas, Nevada, at the age care 63.^[27]

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