Wistron chair Simon Lin, overseeing one of the biggest growth stories in global tech, attributes the company's success to making the right bet eight years ago by hitching its star to Nvidia. The Taipei-based electronics manufacturer, which started as a spinoff of Acer, now builds the servers that hold Nvidia’s chips. Wistron reported $70.2 billion in revenue in 2025, more than double the year before, with servers accounting for 70% of total sales. In the first half of 2026, revenue already hit $55 billion. Wistron is No. 198 on this year’s Fortune Global 500, a rise of 298 spots from the year before, marking the largest jump on this year’s ranking. Lin, 72, joined Acer in 1979 and was named chair and CEO of Wistron after Acer spun off its manufacturing division in 2001. A turning point came in 2007 with the iPhone, but Wistron exited the smartphone business by 2023 after low margins and labor unrest at its Karnataka, India, plant. Nvidia has been a Wistron customer for almost a decade, initially helping manufacture graphics cards, and demand skyrocketed after OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT in late 2022.