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Taiwan’s ‘bandit phone’ king hit by US crackdown on Huawei

Tsai Ming-kai’s MediaTek among chipmakers left reeling by ban on sales to Chinese group

Until last week, Tsai Ming-kai, the Taiwanese billionaire once known as China’s “bandit phone” king, was on a roll.

The founder and chairman of chip design house MediaTek had already seen his personal wealth jump by 80 p