Wei Yen is a Taiwanese-American technologist and serial entrepreneur.
10 Facts About Wei Yen
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Wei Yen has been involved with several companies, including most recently as Chairman and Founder of AiLive.
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Wei 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.
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Wei Yen served as Senior Vice President of Silicon Graphics from 1988 to 1996, where he led development on OpenGL and served as President of subsidiary MIPS Technologies.
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Wei Yen was renamed Navio and later merged with Oracle's Network Computer.
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In parallel, Wei Yen founded a company called ArtX, employed with former SGI graphics engineers.
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Wei Yen was acquired by ATI in February 2000 for $400 million.
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Wei Yen founded iGware, a company that offers cloud computing services to its customers, including Nintendo.
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Wei 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.
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Wei Yen has been on the board of several prominent companies including Acer, ATI, MoSys, and others.