Richard Zhai
Founder And COO at RSD Japan
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Zhai is a semiconductor founder and CTO based in Tokyo with over two decades of hands-on experience in ASIC design, verification, physical design, and supply chain management, and eight years in leadership roles. He currently leads RSD Japan to commercialize proprietary 3D wafer-on-wafer memory aimed at displacing LPDDR5X and HBM for AI accelerators, data centers, automotive, and edge applications. Richard combines deep technical fluency—defining architecture, D2D co-optimization, and managing foundry/packaging partnerships—with practical manufacturing know-how to ensure products meet real-world performance, power, cost, and reliability targets. Previously he shipped at scale as Director of Engineering and GM at Availink, overseeing cross-border teams and high-volume production that delivered billions of chips. Known for bridging long-term technology roadmaps with immediate supply-chain realities, he brings a rare end-to-end view from wafer architecture to volume production.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityBSEE, Telecommunications Engineering, BSEE, Telecommunications Engineering at Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications
Github Skills (7)
tensorflow7
tss6
esapi6
tpm5
linux5
sapi4
dvb1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
availink/documentation
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:32 commits, 33 pushes, 1 issue in 3 years
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