Winbond America Executives

About Winbond Electronics Corporation America

Winbond Electronics Corporation America is a leading supplier of semiconductor solutions to the consumer, computer, communications and electronics products markets.
Based in San Jose, California, the Company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Winbond Electronics Corporation, the largest branded IC Company in Taiwan and a leading supplier of semiconductor solutions worldwide. Headquartered in Science-Based Industrial Park, Hsinchu, Taiwan, the corporation was founded in 1987. In 1990, the Company established Winbond America. The Company began with a regional focus on the U.S. and Europe but has evolved. It now has a more global mission; to design, develop, market and sell IC solutions to the worldwide electronics marketplace. Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, Winbond America maintains a strong emphasis on mixed-signal solutions; its primary mission is to serve the signal conditioning needs of computer, consumer and communications electronic manufacturers. Winbond Electronics Corporation has approximately 3,800 employees worldwide with design centers in Hsinchu, Taiwan; Shanghai, China; San Jose and Torrance, California; and Austin, Texas. For more than a decade, Winbond America has steadily expanded its domestic and European market penetration. The Company now provides mixed-signal design services and IC solutions geared toward the needs of customers worldwide. The Company is also responsible for marketing and selling all Winbond products in the U.S. and Europe. Thus far, Winbond America's focus and dedication to its customer needs have enabled it to provide IC solutions to the world's largest and most successful toy manufacturers, a number of worldwide OEMs in consumer electronics and most of the world's top computer companies. With approximately 130 employees located at the San Jose, California facility, the Company offers a global, dynamic work environment (http://www.winbond-usa.com/employment). From sales and engineering, marketing to customer service, employees have the opportunity to work with some of the most innovative chip technology in the world.

Winbond - Expanding Its Reach

Five years ago, Winbond has embarked upon a strategy of expanding its core engineering expertise by acquiring key technologies through acquisitions. In 1998, Winbond acquired Silicon Valley-based Information Storage Devices, a market leader and global provider of voice solutions in silicon and provider of the industry's award winning line of ChipCorder® voice record and playback IC solutions. In 1999, the Company expanded its technology reach again by acquiring Bright Micro Electronics (BMI) and the Thin Film Transistor (TFT) LCD division of Cirrus Logic®, based in Austin, Texas. Since that time, all of these companies have become fully integrated into the Winbond America family enabling Winbond to offer expanded lines of award-winning voice and speech chip solutions and state-of-the-art TFT LCD-driver ICs. In little more than past year alone, Winbond America has rolled out three new product lines: the WTS70X series, the industry's first single chip IC solution that converts Text-To-Speech (TTS); the W68xx series, a family of voice CODEC chips aimed at telephony, communications and consumer applications; and the WMS72xx series, a family of 256-tap, non-volatile, digitally programmable potentiometer ICs aimed at communications, industrial and consumer applications.

The Indispensable IC - Solutions For The Way We Live

Integrated circuits (ICs) are found in virtually every home today. From cell phones to televisions, from automobiles and computers to video recorders and DVDs, toys and PDAs, there is scarcely an electronic or consumer appliance in use today that does not contain the indispensable semiconductor chip. Winbond's global market penetration in the IC industry is profound. On average, more than 1.5 Winbond chips can be found in every PC in the world. The company produces more than 400 IC products for the PC, PC peripherals, consumer, electronics, multimedia, industrial and memory IC markets. Winbond is a market leader in the telephone dialer, PC I/O controller, memory, speech synthesizer and MPEG decoder markets and the number one provider, worldwide, of speech IC solutions for toys. With three fabs currently in operation, Winbond America has access to the Company's extensive foundry services which utilize state-of-the-art process technologies ranging from 3.0µm down to 0.11µm.