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Wang Xinyang
China 46 years old
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- Image sensor chips
- Industry
- Technology
- Residence
- Hangzhou, Zhejiang
Assets
- Gpixel Changchun Microelectronics108,300,000 shares @ --3277-HK
Biography
Wang Xinyang is the founder, chairman and CEO of state-backed Gpixel Changchun Microelectronics, a fabless maker of CMOS image sensors - chips that turn incoming light into digital images.
Before setting up Gpixel in 2012, UK- and Dutch-educated Wang worked with CMOSIS NV, a Belgian company in CMOS image sensor design.
He also worked as a researcher and Ph.D. supervisor at the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics.
Wang took Gpixel public on the Hong Kong stock exchange in April 2026, raising $332 million.
His wife, Zhang Yanxia, serves as Gpixel's deputy general manager.