Paul Richman (born November 17, 1942) is an American semiconductor physicist and author.

[3] In 1971, Richman co-founded Standard Microsystems Corp (SMSC) as a research and development firm.

[7][8] During his tenure, SMSC became the largest chip maker on Long Island, and Intel Corp acquired a stake in the company.

[10] From 1998 to 2002, he served on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Visiting Committee for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Richman developed and held the basic patent for COPLAMOS technology, which pioneered the use of field-doped, locally-oxidized structures in metal–oxide–semiconductor (M.O.S.)