© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Terry Gou, Foxconn founder and presidential candidate, speaks throughout a press convention in Taipei, Taiwan November 23, 2023. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins/File Photograph
TAIPEI (Reuters) – Terry Gou, the billionaire founding father of main Apple (NASDAQ:) provider Foxconn, made his first excessive profile look in months on Tuesday on the agency’s fiftieth birthday, following the ending of his bid for Taiwan’s presidency late final yr.
Gou, who stepped down as Foxconn chief in 2019 and resigned as a board member final September, stays the corporate’s largest shareholder and remains to be reverentially referred to by firm executives as “the Founder”.
In late November he deserted his newest try and develop into Taiwan’s president after failing to dealer a deal to unite the island’s fractious opposition forward of January elections, and largely vanished from view, although he did go to a temple final month.
Foxconn, in a press release on Wednesday, mentioned Gou had attended a gala in Taipei to mark the corporate’s fiftieth anniversary, an occasion additionally attended in individual by Apple’s Chief Working Officer Jeff Williams, SoftBank (TYO:) Founder and CEO Masayoshi Son and ARM CEO Rene Haas.
“Previously 50 years, Foxconn has succeeded in altering the lives of tens of millions of staff, thus their households and in addition their communities. Because the Founder, I’m most happy with it,” the corporate quoted Gou as saying.
Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics maker and Apple’s greatest iPhone assembler, mentioned that Apple CEO Tim Cook dinner, Nvidia (NASDAQ:) CEO Jensen Huang and Intel (NASDAQ:) CEO Pat Gelsinger all despatched pre-recorded tributes to the closed-door occasion.
Foxconn Chairman Liu Younger-way mentioned the celebration was for Gou.
“Tonight we’re amongst pals, who’re long-time clients and suppliers,” the assertion cited Liu as saying. “This night is for you. It’s Terry’s night.”
Foxconn, formally known as Hon Hai Precision Business Co Ltd, is in search of to develop past assembling smartphones and different electronics to creating electrical autos.
Foxconn mentioned a few of the company have been taken to the occasion within the Foxconn-developed Mannequin C automotive, which is now in mass manufacturing.