Chen Wen-ch'i

{{Short description|Taiwanese-American entrepreneur (born 1955)}}

{{redirect|Chen Wenqi|the actress|Vicky Chen}}

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| education = National Taiwan University (BS, MS)
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| occupation = Entrepreneur

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| title = CEO of VIA Technologies

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Chen Wen-ch'i ({{lang-zh|t=|s=陈文琦|p=Chén Wénqí|first=t}}, born {{birth_date|1955|11|16}}) is a Taiwanese-American entrepreneur who has been president and CEO of VIA Technologies, Inc. since 1992.

Prior to VIA, Chen co-founded and was president and CEO of Symphony Laboratories, acquired by Winbond in 1995.{{cite journal | last=LaPedus | first=Mark | date=October 30, 1995 | url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/228140765/ | title=Winbond Plays It Out With Symphony | work=Electronic Buyers' News | publisher=CMP Publications | page=3 |id={{ProQuest|228140765 }}}} He also held positions of Sales & Marketing VP at high tech start-up ULSI and senior architect at Intel. Chen holds a master's degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University and a masters in computer science from the California Institute of Technology.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}}

In June 2008, Forbes ranked him with his wife Cher Wang, the chairperson of HTC, as the fifth richest of Taiwan.{{cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/87/biz_taiwanrichest08_Cher-Wang-Wen-Chi-Chen_D3RI.html |title=Taiwan's Richest: #5 Cher Wang & Wen Chi Chen |accessdate=2008-08-07 |work=Forbes |date= }} Forbes estimated his net worth to be around {{USD|850 million}} in May 2016.{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/chen-wenchi-wang-cher/|title=Chen Wenchi & Wang Cher|website=Forbes}}

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