Meet the Sponsors
ASE Group
The ASE Group is the world's largest provider of independent semiconductor manufacturing services in assembly and test. As a global leader geared towards meeting the industry's ever growing needs for faster, smaller and higher performance chips, the Group develops and offers a wide portfolio of technology and solutions including IC test program design, front-end engineering test, wafer probe, wafer bump, substrate design and supply, wafer level package, flip chip, system-in-package and final test. ASE Group also provides electronic manufacturing services through its affiliate, Universal Scientific Industrial Co Ltd. The Group generated sales revenues of $3.0 billion in 2008 and employs over 26,000 people worldwide.
For more information about the ASE Group, visit www.aseglobal.com.
Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering (ciee)
Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering (CIEE) was founded in October 1934 in Shanghai, a non-profit entity, is one of the oldest-established and largest multimodal professional organizations in Taiwan. The missions of CIEE are for electrical engineering technology and techniques through sharing experience,collecting information, defining and developing solutions both for our members and the government.
Initially, CIEE was set up by 50 members who are scholars and specialists of telecommunication and electrical engineering, and then expanded its fields to radio and TV, and even to electronics and computer information engineering. The major activities of CIEE are planning and conducting conferences and meeting to discuss or present lectures on the science of electrical engineering and to publish books, periodicals and papers related to electrical engineering, and issue notices related to INSTITUTE affairs.
For more information, visit www.ciee.org/tw
Industrial Technology research Institute
Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) is a national research organization that serves to strengthen the technological competitiveness of Taiwan. Since our inception, ITRI has three mission statements: first, to expedite the development of new industrial technology; two, to aid in the process of upgrading industrial technology techniques; and three, to establish future industrial technology.
For more information, please visit www.itri.org.tw/eng.
Macronix International
Macronix is the largest and the most advanced supplier of ROM products worldwide. As one of the top world-class suppliers of nonvolatile memory semiconductors, we currently produce a wide range of ROM and NOR Flash products and solutions across various densities in embedded, consumer, and enterprise applications. Established in 1989 in the Science Park, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Macronix is dedicated to developing top-notch home-grown technologies and improving its manufacturing capability to offer its customers high quality products and services.
Visit www.macronix.com for more information.
Phison Electronics CorpORATION
Phison excels in NAND flash memory controller technology and related applications. Phison is a total solution provider with expertise in IC design, product development and manufacturing.
Additional information about Phison is available at www.phison.com
Sonics
Sonics, Inc. is a pioneer of network-on-chip (NoC) technology and today offers SoC designers the largest portfolio of intelligent, on-chip communications solutions. Sonics’ products optimize memory access, seamlessly manage on-chip network traffic, accelerate system performance and reduce power consumption in SoCs with advanced voice, data and video features—including those found in home entertainment, networking, wireless and mobile devices. As the leading supplier of on-chip communications networks for the embedded market, Sonics has enabled its customers to ship more than 750 million units worldwide. Founded in 1996, Sonics is headquartered in Milpitas, California with offices worldwide.
For more information, please visit www.sonicsinc.com.
Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association (TSIA)
Additional information about TSIA is available at www.tsia.org.tw
TSMC
TSMC is the world's largest dedicated semiconductor foundry, providing industry leading process technology and the largest foundry portfolio of process-proven libraries, IP, design tools and reference flows. The company's total managed capacity in 2008 exceeded 9 million 8-inch equivalent wafers, including capacity from two advanced 12-inch GigaFabs™, four eight-inch fabs, one six-inch fab, TSMC's owned subsidiaries, WaferTech and TSMC China, and its joint venture fab, SSMC. TSMC is the first foundry to provide 40nm production capabilities.
Visit www.tsmc.com for additional information.
