Chen Tianshi
Source of wealth: Semiconductors
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Biography
Chen Tianshi is the chairman and CEO of chipmaker Cambricon Technologies, sometimes dubbed China's Nvidia.
Before cofounding Cambricon in 2016, he worked for the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Computing Technology as a researcher.
The institute still owns a minority stake in Cambricon.
Chen holds a Ph.D. from the University of Science and Technology of China.
Perspective on their fortune
Gold
Everyday luxury
A Chen Tianshi's fortune is equivalent to 210 of gold, but this may be difficult to value, as we don't usually have a handful of gold bars in our piggy bank.
A standard gold ring typically weighs between 4 and 7 grams. Let's say this one weighs 5 grams. It's usually 18k gold.
Based on today's gold price (not taking into account the jeweler's fee, shipping, or anything else), that gold ring would be worth $556.3
Chen Tianshi could buy 55,969,969 gold rings. That's a lot of fingers and a lot of gifts!!
And if the number of rings is difficult to visualize, all these rings would need 10 trucks to transport them, But we can be almost certain that Chen Tianshi will have enough left over to pay for the gas for those trucks.
Health
The price of life
Let's compare Chen Tianshi's fortune with the healthcare spending of a huge country
Chen Tianshi could fund the entire healthcare system of DR Congo with a population of over 105,800,000 of inhabitants for approximately 14.0 years.
But even if we compare their fortune to that of a rich country
At the other extreme, Chen Tianshi could cover the health expenditure of Luxembourg, considered the world's most heavily invested health system, for 6.2 years
Education
Buying the future
Lowest education spending
Chen Tianshi could assume the entire cost of the education system of Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa, with more than 243,000,000 inhabitants for 9.2 years.
Highest education spending
But not only could he assume the cost of a poor country, Luxembourg is considered the country with the highest per capita investment in education in the world, Chen Tianshi could pay for it in full for 12.5 years.
Research
The monopoly of progress
Lowest research spending
Chen Tianshi could fully fund the state research budget of Pakistan, the fifth most populous country in the world with more than 260,000,000 of inhabitants, for 52.4 years.
Highest research spending
But even if we compare the total wealth of Chen Tianshi with Israel, the country that currently invests the most per capita in research in the world, it could assume the total cost of the system for 1.2 years.
Financial Assets
Monthly wealth history
Fortune comparison
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