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Alchip

Alchip Technologies, Inc., headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, is a leading provider of silicon design and manufacturing services for companies developing complex and high-volume system-on-chip (SoC) designs. Founded in 2002 by semiconductor veterans from Silicon Valley and Japan, Alchip provides services intended to enable customers to cost-effectively address the increasing technological complexity of silicon design and the need to reduce time to market. Alchip targets customers that focus on rapidly growing and high-volume end markets, such as entertainment devices, mobile phones, HDTV, communications equipment, computers and other electronic products. Alchip has a proven track record of delivering 100% first time silicon success which is based on its unique SoC design flows and solutions. Alchip is committed to exceeding its customers’ expectations in terms of product quality, reliable and predictable service, fast time-to-volume, and to be customers' trusted silicon partner. For additional information about Alchip, visit www.alchip.com. S3

Advisors

John Wei
Sr. Director of Design Technologies
Alchip Technologies, Inc.

John Wei joined Alchip Technologies in Jan. 2007 as the Senior Director of Design Technologies responsible for Alchip’s SoC Design Methodology, Design Infrastructure Development, and Complex IP Hardening. John had previously worked in LSI Logic, NeoMagic, PMC-Sierra, Marvell, and Tensilica. He completed his post-doctoral work in EECS Department at MIT, and received his PhD EE from Dartmouth, MS from Stanford, and BS from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. John holds four US patents in IC Design and published numerous, refereed papers in IEEE.