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- 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. On 25 May 2021, Bloomberg Billionaires Index estimated his net worth at $5.98 Billion. Barry Lam was born in Shanghai and raised in Hong Kong. His father was an accountant for the Hong Kong Club. He studied engineering in Taiwan, graduating from National Taiwan University with bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering. In 1973, he and some former classmates founded Kinpo Electronics, 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. 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. (en)
- Барри Лам (кит. трад. 林百里, пиньинь Lín Bǎilǐ) — тайваньский бизнесмен, миллиардер и основатель Quanta Computer. (ru)
- 林百里（英語：Barry Lam，1949年4月24日－），生於中華民國上海，長於英屬香港，臺灣企業家，為廣達集團創辦人兼總裁、香港晶門科技前非執行主席。 (zh)
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