MSI President and CEO Sheng-Chang Chiang Has Died

btarunr · Jul 7, 2020

MSI President and CEO Sheng-Chang Chiang has died, he was 56. The Taiwanese press reports that he died from falling from a building, causing head injury, although the circumstances behind the fall are unknown and subject of a Police investigation. Sheng-Chang Chiang took over MSI as recently as January 2019, and is regarded in the industry as the man who scripted the company's turnaround in the desktop computing product segments, as head of the Desktop Computing business at MSI, under the Gaming brand of motherboards and graphics cards. Our most sincere respects and condolences go out to the family of Sheng-Chang Chiang and MSI.

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droopyRO · Jul 7, 2020

RIP. MSI is one of my favorite brands.

entropy13 · Jul 7, 2020

RIP. Also just got a new mobo and GPU from MSI too...

Super XP · Jul 7, 2020

Looks like it was a freak accident. It's too bad, may he RIP.
I like MSI, they have one of the best Cost - Performance ratio in the industry.

Chomiq · Jul 7, 2020

Rip, condolences to the family.

27MaD · Jul 7, 2020

JalleR · Jul 7, 2020

PowerPC · Jul 7, 2020

Man, MSI Gaming is the best. RIP

dj-electric · Jul 7, 2020

May he rest in peace. My condolences to the family and friends.

Verpal · Jul 7, 2020

Woah, that's insane, just saw him last year, clearly he still have great passion in PC hardware.
RIP, hopefully the next CEO will be just as worthy.

MikeGR7 · Jul 7, 2020

Sad news. He looked like a very nice person plus the company has clearly improved since he took over, especially in the Motherboards division.

So young... May you rest in peace Chiang.

cryohellinc · Jul 7, 2020

My sincere condolences to his family and relatives.

FlanK3r · Jul 7, 2020

I do not really like MSI products, but this news is sad

Every lost life is important

RIP until the resurrection in power of Jesus Christ in His second coming....

SN2716057 · Jul 7, 2020

kapone32 · Jul 7, 2020

RIP MSI has made great strides in terms of the quality of most of their products.

Rowsol · Jul 7, 2020

Damn, that's a real shame. They are my favorite manufacturer. Hopefully whoever replaces him won't fuck it up.

Negatori · Jul 7, 2020

Does that mean we will get better laptop hinges now?

ExplodingCaps · Jul 7, 2020

Rest in Peace Sir. Msi is my favorite brand for gpu since 980 Ti. May his successor brings improvement to the company, or at least as good as him.

mcraygsx · Jul 7, 2020

RIP. Such a Tragedy. Love MSI Brand along with Gigabyte.

francisw19 · Jul 7, 2020

My condolences, such a shame.

R-T-B · Jul 8, 2020

I'm not a fan of MSI, but I don't wish death on anyone and this is certainly a tragic way to go. My thoughts are with his family. May he RIP.

mtcn77 · Jul 8, 2020

This is devastating to the gaming community. His person was the first CEO to take gpu cooling into the spotlight for aftermarket heatsinks to enter mainstream market. This whole high performance out of the box guarantee of satisfaction was his idea. Before his foray into gpu gaming market, each oem had its stray pocket of spare parts that didn't have the same elegance. Thank him for making an Arctic silencer for every gpu. Yes, it was a thing back then.

Flanker · Jul 8, 2020

mtcn77 said:
This is devastating to the gaming community. His person was the first CEO to take gpu cooling into the spotlight for aftermarket heatsinks to enter mainstream market. This whole high performance out of the box guarantee of satisfaction was his idea. Before his foray into gpu gaming market, each oem had its stray pocket of spare parts that didn't have the same elegance. Thank him for making an Arctic silencer for every gpu. Yes, it was a thing back then.

You mean nice things like twin frozr coolers came about after he took charge? Damn, he should get recognized more.

mtcn77 · Jul 8, 2020

Flanker said:
You mean nice things like twin frozr coolers came about after he took charge? Damn, he should get recognized more.

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Sheng-Chang Chiang

Deceased, Micro-Star Intl Co Ltd

CURRENT POSITION

Deceased, Micro-Star Intl Co Ltd

TENURE AT CURRENT POSITION

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PREVIOUS POSITION

Exec VP/Divisional President:Products Business, Micro-Star Intl Co Ltd

EDUCATION

National Chiao Tung University

BOARD MEMBERSHIPS

Micro-Star Intl Co Ltd

Micro-Star Intl Co Ltd

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Hardware

CURRENT PRICE

2377:TT115.00TWD

-3.00-2.54%

AS OF 12:41 AM EDT 07/08/2020

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Board Memberships

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COMPANY

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Board Member

Micro-Star Intl Co Ltd

06/2015–07/2020

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Micro-Star Intl Co Ltd

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President/CEO

Micro-Star Intl Co Ltd

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Exec VP/Divisional President:Products Business

Micro-Star Intl Co Ltd

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Slizzo · Jul 8, 2020

Sucks. Wasn't he on stage with Dr. Lisa Su during the big Ryzen 3000 launch?

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