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.
[13] Quanta designs and manufactures for clients such as Apple Inc., Compaq, Dell, Gateway, BlackBerry Ltd., Hewlett-Packard,[14] Alienware, Cisco Systems, Fujitsu, Gericom, Lenovo, LG, Maxdata, MPC, Sharp Corporation, Siemens, Sony, Sun Microsystems, and Toshiba.
[citation needed] It is the largest manufacturer of PC notebooks worldwide[15] and has diversified into servers, storage, and liquid-crystal display terminals.
The center works on many collaborative projects with major institutions such as MIT, National Taiwan University and Academia Sinica on producing next generation products.
[17] In 2005, Lam and Quanta joined forces with MIT on Project T-Party,[18] a five-year initiative to create the next generation of platforms for computing and communication.
[22] The OLPC project was also part of Quanta's Blue Ocean Strategy,[23] entering new market segments which are uncontested in terms of competition.
[30] The foundation has received the Wen Hsin Golden Award from the Council for Cultural Affairs, Taiwan, for its outstanding promotion of social education many times.
[31] In November 2002, Barry Lam announced that he would fund a new College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at his alma mater National Taiwan University.