Axera Qiu Xiaoxin Selected for 2025 "Forbes China Outstanding Businesswomen" List, Highlighting the Rise of Female Leadership in the Hard Tech Sector

Release time:2025-03-14

Recently, Forbes China officially released the 11th edition of the Top 100 Outstanding Businesswomen in China ranking. Focusing on "Her Power in Adversity", this year's ranking selected 100 female leaders from thousands of candidates. Among them, 37% are self-made entrepreneurs (including early members of the founding team), 57% are professional managers, and 6% are second-generation female successors. Dr. Qiu Xiaoxin, Founder and Chairperson of Axera, earned a spot on the ranking by virtue of her profound technological accumulation and outstanding leadership in the fields of artificial intelligence and semiconductors.

Compared with last year, the proportion of female leaders with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) backgrounds has further increased in 2025. Among them, the semiconductor industry stands out with a 20% share, while the number of listed individuals involved in the artificial intelligence field accounts for as high as 35%. These figures indicate that gender barriers in technology-driven tracks are fading, and Dr. Qiu Xiaoxin is a representative figure in the hardcore technology sector. This female leader, with over 20 years of experience in chip R&D and high-tech enterprise management, led Axera to become one of the leading domestic AI chip players in less than six years, which confirms the core selection criterion emphasized by Forbes: "in-depth technological cultivation and continuous investment".

Dr. Qiu Xiaoxin's career path highlights the common traits of female leaders in hardcore technology: anchoring technological trends with academic accumulation and breaking through industry barriers with managerial resilience. Today, facing the booming development of large models and the industrial trend of inclusive intelligence, Axera, the platform-based chip company led by Dr. Qiu Xiaoxin, is driving the large-scale implementation of AI capabilities in scenarios such as end-side inference, edge computing and intelligent driving. This practice of "Inclusive AI, for a Better Life" resonates with the "inclusive innovation" emphasized by Forbes.

The continuous evolution of the "Top 100 Outstanding Businesswomen in China" ranking has especially witnessed the development trajectory of female leaders in the technology sector from "participating in innovation" to "defining standards". Dr. Qiu Xiaoxin's inclusion in the ranking also confirms the evolutionary path of female leadership, which not only allows people to see the broad prospects for personal development in the AI era, but also experience the unique power and infinite possibilities of women in the workplace.