Zeng Fangqin

Who she is

Zeng Fangqin, known as the "Apple supply-chain queen," started at 41 in a rented workshop with 80 employees. Her precision-manufacturing empire, Lingyi iTech, now supplies hundreds of components per smartphone to the world's biggest device makers.

In June 2026 she listed Lingyi on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, raising HK$8.3 billion — and pointed the money at AI servers, EVs and, most ambitiously, humanoid-robot joints and skeletons.

Why she matters

Zeng is the industrialist converting consumer-electronics precision manufacturing into the backbone of the robot era. Her public target — to become a top-3 global hardware manufacturer in robotics — signals how seriously the established manufacturing giants now take humanoids. When the supply-chain queens move in, the industry has arrived.