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Barry Lam was born on 24 April, 1949 in Shanghai, China, is a Chairman. Discover Barry Lam's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 74 years old?
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24 April, 1949 |
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24 April |
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Shanghai, China |
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China |
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He is a member of famous Chairman with the age 75 years old group.
Barry Lam Height, Weight & Measurements
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Barry Lam Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Barry Lam worth at the age of 75 years old? Barry Lam’s income source is mostly from being a successful Chairman. He is from China. We have estimated
Barry Lam's net worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Chairman |
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On 25 May 2021, Bloomberg Billionaires Index estimated his net worth at $5.98 Billion.
Lam decided that Quanta would be the original design manufacturer (ODM) for the OLPC XO-1 by the One Laptop per Child project. Quanta took orders for one million laptops as of 2007-02-15. The OLPC project was also part of Quanta's Blue Ocean Strategy, entering new market segments which are uncontested in terms of competition.
In 2006, Fortune Magazine included Quanta in the Fortune Global 500 Companies, and in 2007, Forbes placed Quanta 15th in its ranking of the world's most admired computer companies, the highest of a Taiwanese company. Quanta designs and manufactures for clients such as Apple Inc., Compaq, Dell, Gateway, BlackBerry Ltd., Hewlett-Packard, Alienware, Cisco Systems, Fujitsu, Gericom, Lenovo, LG, Maxdata, MPC, Sharp Corporation, Siemens, Sony, Sun Microsystems, and Toshiba. It is the largest manufacturer of PC notebooks worldwide and has diversified into servers, storage, and liquid-crystal display terminals.
In 2005, Lam and Quanta joined forces with MIT on Project T-Party, a five-year initiative to create the next generation of platforms for computing and communication. The project aims to create new interfaces and explore new ways of managing and accessing information.
In November 2002, Barry Lam announced that he would fund a new College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at his alma mater National Taiwan University. It opened in July 2004, and is known as the Barry Lam Hall. It houses the Barry Lam Art Gallery in its basement.
In 1973, he and some former classmates founded Kinpo Electronics [zh], a manufacturer of handheld calculators. As president of the company he built it into the largest contract manufacturer of calculators. In the late 1980s, he became convinced that notebook computers would be the next big product. He left Kinpo and founded Quanta Computer in 1988. He set up Quanta Computer with the help of a colleague, C. C. Leung, with capital of less than US$900,000. It had a turnover of NT$777 billion in 2007, US$23.7 billion.
Barry Lam (Chinese: 林百里; pinyin: Lín Bǎilǐ; Cantonese Yale: Lam4 Baak3 Lei5; born 24 April 1949) is a Taiwanese billionaire businessman, and the founder and chairman of Quanta Computer. He is also a patron of the arts and a philanthropist in the area of culture and education.