He moved to Shanghai with his parents in 1945, before going to Taiwan two years later as the Chinese Civil War neared the coast.
[3][2][4] Tu moved in 1960 to West Germany to study electrical engineering, and was educated at a language school in Munich.
They then lost most their money in the 1987 stock market crash and founded Kingston Technology later that same year.
[3][5] In 2021 Tu made a donation to the Western Iowa Journalism Foundation that enabled the Pulitzer Prize-winning Storm Lake (Iowa) Times to buy its local competition and a weekly in an adjoining county.
[7] In 2011, he donated $1.2 million to give every first year medical student at UC Irvine an iPad.