Alex Kuo

Sage, Inc. designs, develops and markets digital display processors. It is developing products that bring the home theater experience to the mass consumer and PC-display market through digitally enhanced television, projection displays, DVD players and internet appliances. The company is located in Milpitas, CA.

Centillium Communications, Inc. designs, develops and supplies integrated programmable system-on-a-chip solutions that enable high-speed broadband access. Its products include passive optical network chip solutions; mixed-signal integrated circuits, hardware and software applications. The firm also offers fiber to the premises products that include central office transceivers, protocol processors, customer premise equipment transceivers and protocol processors. The company was founded in 1997 by Faraj Aalaei and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Marvell Technology Group Ltd. engages in the design, development, and sale of integrated circuits. The company offers System-on-a-Chip devices, which leverages technology portfolio of intellectual property in the areas of analog, mixed-signal, digital signal processing, and embedded and standalone integrated circuits. It also develops integrated hardware platforms along with software that incorporates digital computing technologies designed and configured to provide an optimized computing solution. The company was founded by Sehat Sutardja, Weili Dai and Pantas Sutardja in January 1995 and is headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda.

Fortemedia, Inc. provides mobile software technology solutions. The firm offers mobile communications, consumer and Internet of Things (IoT), automotive infotainment systems, and personal computing. Its Advanced Microphone Array Processing (AMAP), a hybrid voice processing system that combines spatial filtering, source separation, and adaptive statistical signal processing to deliver advanced voice and audio capabilities to consumer electronic devices. The company was founded by Tom Hsia and Ming Zhang in 1996 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Advanced Analogic Technologies, Inc. provides specialized power management semiconductors for use in a variety of computing, communications, and consumer electronics applications. It develops power management semiconductors for mobile consumer electronic devices, such as wireless handsets, notebook and tablet computers, smartphones, digital cameras, and digital audio players. The company was founded in August 1997 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Praesagus, Inc. provides characterization and modeling products for the chemical mechanical polishing semiconductor manufacturing process. The private company is based in Campbell, CA. The company was founded by Nickhil Jakatdar.

InveStar Capital, Inc. is a venture capital firm based in Taipei with an office in Silicon Valley. InveStar was established in 1996 by Kenneth Chung Hou Tai and Herbert Kuo Wei Chang. The firm manages a series of specialist venture capital funds. Their investors include Taiwanese and U.S. technology companies and financial institutions.

Global Communication Semiconductors LLC manufactures compound semiconductor foundry services. It offers semiconductor devices, radio frequency and millimeter wave integrated circuits, and solutions for wireless, telecommunications, power electronics, fiber optical communications, and optoelectronics markets. The firm also offers PIN photodetectors and photodetector arrays for datacom, telecom, lightpeak, thunderbolt, active optical cable, and parallel optical interconnect applications. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Torrance, CA.

UMC Capital Corp. is the corporate venture arm and a wholly-owned subsidiary of UMC-United Microelectronics Corp. (NYSE: UMC; TP: 2303). UMC is a Taiwan-based semiconductor foundry established in 1980, and a global contract manufacturing leader. They make advanced process integrated circuits for applications spanning the entire semiconductor industry. UMC has facilities in Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Europe and the US. Established in 2001, UMC Capital operates from offices in the Cayman Islands, Taipei and Sunnyvale, California.

Part of Global On Corp., Global Mobile Corp. provides wireless broadband services. The company is based in Taipei, Taiwan. The Taiwanese company was founded by Ko Chiang Shih.

Shanghai Winking Entertainment Ltd. engages in the development of online and mobile games. Its services include two dimension and three dimension artwork, game development and consultant. The company was founded by Johnny Jan, HanMing Chang, and ZhengYu Huang in July 2000 and is headquartered in Shanghai, China.

Socle Technology Corp. is a holding company that develops and designs platform System on Chip (SoC). Its services include Platform SoC, SoC Implementation, Turnkey, and IP products. It implements time-to-market service that allows prototyping, chip and system designing. Its ARM SoC total solutions provide applications for MID, multimedia handheld communication, integrated connection, consumer, and storage matters. The company was founded by David Lyou on July 4,2001 and is headquartered in Hsin-Chu, Taiwan.

Part of OmniVision Technologies, Inc., Aurora Systems, Inc. (California) designs, manufactures and distributes liquid crystal on silicon-based microdisplay panels. The company is based in San Jose, CA. Aurora Systems, Inc. (California was acquired by OmniVision Technologies, Inc. on March 25, 2010 for $5.60 million.

Jogtek Corp. manufactures RFID modules and sub-systems. The private company is based in Taipei, Taiwan.

Beijing Palm Wide Mobile Media Technology Co., Ltd. develops mobile advertising platform. It offers solutions to application developers and advertisers. The company was founded by Wang Xudong in 2010 and is headquartered in Beijing, China.

SEMA-Translink Investment Co Ltd (Translink Investment) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015. The firm is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

Part of Parade Technologies, Ltd., Parade Technologies, Inc. (Shanghai) is a Chinese company that manufactures and supplies integrated circuits. The company is based in Shanghai, China.

X2 Power Technologies Ltd. manufactures consumer electronics. The company is headquartered in George Town, Cayman Islands.

SiFotonics Technologies (USA), Inc. designs and manufactures silicon photonic integrated circuits and discrete devices. The firm offers discrete devices for the applications in consumer electronics, computation and communications. Its products include avalanche photodiode detectors, photo detectors, transimpedance amplifiers, integrated optical receiver, and high speed receiver modules. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Woburn, MA.