Lip-Bu Tan gets the Robert N. Noyce Award for 2022.
Lip-Bu Tan gets the Robert N. Noyce Award for 2022.
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Chip industry honors ex-Cadence CEO and VC Lip-Bu Tan

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The Semiconductor Industry Association awarded its highest honor to Lip-Bu Tan, the former CEO of Cadence Design Systems and the founder of the venture capital firm Walden International.

Tan served as CEO of Cadence, a maker of chip design tools and simulation software, for 13 years. And in 1987, he founded Walden International. At that time, nobody wanted to invest in semiconductor companies as chip making was getting so expensive.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.