(Taipei News) Winbond Electronics Corporation today announced that effective July 1 2002, the Company's corporate director and auditor, Walsin Lihwa Corporation, has appointed Dr. Keh Shew Lu as Winbond's representative. Winbond's Chairman, Arthur Chiao noted, "A Company's core management includes a fully functional and effective audit team. In addition, a professional board member, an auditor who possesses an international viewpoint can greatly enhance the structure and function of an audit team, thereby facilitating competitiveness. We are very delighted to have on board Dr. Keh Shew Lu, PhD, as Winbond's corporate director. We expect Dr. Lu will be a great asset in helping Winbond attain its goal of becoming a world class company."
Dr. Lu brings to Winbond an abundance of experience, including semiconductor technology development, operation management, trend development and capital management. He graduated from National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan and obtained his PhD from Texas Technology University, U.S. At Texas Instruments, U.S., Dr. Lu was a senior vice president for that Company's memory products. He also served as TI's senior vice president of mixed signal and logic products. Currently, he is a partner at WK Technology Fund and serves on the board of directors of several companies including Diodes, a Silicon Valley-based company; Resonext Communication Inc.; and Zeevo, a system single chip design firm. Winbond believes that Dr. Lu's broad base of industry experience and international expertise will help Winbond to widen its horizons and achieve its strategic goal of becoming a global player in the worldwide semiconductor industry.
This year, as the semiconductor industry continues to rebound, Winbond has been aggressively working on new product development and concentrating on technology advancements for each product line. The Company continues to focus on Niche DRAM, Flash, Pseudo SRAM, and other memory products to provide OEMs with compete solutions and competitive advantages for mobile products. In concert with the stable growth of the Company's Logic business group, Winbond estimates that this years' business will improve significantly. In the future, Winbond will continue to appoint industry leaders as broad members, aggressively improve operations, and focus on increasing return on investment for stockholders.
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Wilson Wen
Vice President of Administrative Center
Tel:03-5792755
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Mike Liu
Deputy Director
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Email:ckliu@winbond.com