NACSA 2006 Annual Conference

Time: May 6, 1pm-4pm

Venue: Santa Clara Convention Center, Great America Ballroom

Theme: New Frontiers of Micro-electronics

Cost: Free (and with multiple iPOD raffle)

Agenda:

1pm ?1:30pm Registration and Networking

(Distribution of BODs election tickets)

Part I (1:30pm ?1:45pm):?NACSA Annual Program Review

Part II (1:45pm ?2:30pm): Election of New NACSA Board of Directors

(BODs election tickets will be collected for iPODs raffle also)

Part III (2:30pm ?4pm): Keynote Speech and Panel Discussion

Moderator:?Peter Kuo, Managing Director and Head of Asia Electronics at WR Hambrecht + Co.

1. T. J. Rodgers, CEO of Cypress Semiconductor, Inc., will speak on Solar Energy - a new frontier of semiconductor industry

2. S. W. Cheung, Vice President, Business Development and Technology Support

Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP), will speak on From Concept to Profit ?The Ideal Place to Commercialize Your R&D Efforts for China Market

3. Stephen Lai, Vice President, Intel’s TMG group, also technical executive of IM Technology (Intel-Micron joint venture for NAND flash memories), will speak on new trends in non-volatile memories.

4. Zhonghan (John) Deng, CEO of ViMicro (China), will speak on ViMicro ?successful IPO and future

Part IV (After Panel Discussion): Announce New Elected NACSA BODs and Raffle Results.

Bios for Keynote Speakers

T. J. Rodgers

Dr. Rodgers is founder, president, CEO, and a director of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation. He is a former chairman of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA)

and sits on the board of directors of high-technology companies, including SolarFlare Communications (10-gigabit Ethernet), Silicon Light Machines (light-switching ICs), Ion

America (fuel cells), Silicon Magnetic Systems (magnetic memories), Infinera (optical ICs), SunPower Corp. (advanced solar cells), and Cypress MicroSystems (field-programmable mixed-signal arrays). Rodgers was a Sloan scholar at Dartmouth College, where he graduated as Salutatorian with a double major in physics and chemistry. He attended Stanford University on a Hertz fellowship, earning a master's degree (1973) and a Ph.D. (1975) in electrical engineering. At Stanford, Rodgers invented, developed, and patented VMOS technology, which he sold for cash and royalties to American Microsystems Inc. (AMI). He managed the MOS memory design group at AMI from 1975 to 1980 before moving to Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), where he ran AMD's static RAM product group.?Rodgers was the founding CEO of Cypress in 1982 and has since built it into an international integrated circuit supplier with 4,100 employees. Called "a quintessential entrepreneurial company" by The Wall Street Journal, Cypress and its management team have received many awards for excellence in financial management.

Stefan Lai

Dr. Lai is Vice President, Technology and Manufacturing Group, and Co-Director, California Technology and Manufacturing. Lai is responsible for the development of silicon process technologies for flash memory as well as novel memories. Lai joined Intel in 1982 as Program Manager for scalable E2PROM components. He co-invented the EPROM tunnel oxide (ETOX) flash memory cell, which has become an industry standard. Lai started the flash memory development team in 1983, and has managed almost every generation of flash memory development at Intel.  Previously, Lai was Member of Technical Staff at the IBM Yorktown TJ Watson Research Center.  Lai received a bachelor of science degree in applied physics from the California Institute of Technology, and his Ph.D. in applied quantum physics from Yale University.  Lai was recognized as an IEEE Fellow in 1998 for his research on the properties of silicon MOS interfaces and the development of flash EPROM memory.

S.W. Cheung

Mr. Cheung came back from Taiwan in July 2002 to take up this position in Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation. During his 3 years in Taiwan, he was the President of Solomon Wireless Tech. Corp. (Taiwan) and Executive Director of Solomon Systech (Hong Kong) Ltd.?Prior to joining Solomon group (Taiwan), S.W. was a 26 years veteran in Motorola Semiconductor Products sector.?S.W. was Vice President and General Manager for the World Consumer Systems Group (CSG) Displays Division from 1998 to 1999, Vice President and General Manager for the Logic and Analog Technologies Group (LATG) Asia / Pacific Division from 1996 to 1997.?

John (Zhonghan) Deng

Dr. Deng is Chief Executive of the “China Starlight Chip Project? Chairman and Chief Scientist of Vimicro Corporation (NASDAQ:VIMC), the largest multimedia semiconductor

technology company in China. Deng received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, M.S. degree in Economics and M.S. degree in Physics, all from the University of California at Berkeley. Hen he worked at IBM as a senior researcher before he returned to China.?After he returned to China from Silicon Valley, he has been the Chief Executive of the “China Starlight Chip Project? and actively involved in developing China semiconductor industry. He co-founded Vimicro in 1999, and developed the first successful China Chip ?the Starlight Multimedia Series. On November 15, 2005, Vimicro was listed on NASDAQ stock exchange in the United States as the China’s first NASDAQ public semiconductor company. ?/span>In recognition of his achievements, Dr. Deng has received numerous awards, most recent of which include 2005 Man of the Year for China Economy, National 1^st Class Scientific and Technology Achievement Award, National Innovation Award in Information Industry, National May Fourth Medal of Chinese Youth, National May First Medal of Model Worker, National Medal for Outstanding Overseas Student Returnees, Top Ten Most Outstanding Youth Award of China, as well as the Outstanding Alumni Award of UC Berkeley Engineering College, etc.

Peter Kuo

Peter is a Managing Director and Head of Asia Electronics at WR Hambrecht + Co. Peter focuses on the hardware technology sector in both the US and Asia, specializing in cross-border transactions. Prior to WRH + Co, Peter was with SoundView Technology Group, where he was the Director of Asia Investment Banking, and Broadview International, where he focused on M&A assignments in the semiconductor industry. Peter has also held positions at Pacific Venture Group, an Asia-focused private equity firm, and Davis Polk & Wardwell, a New York-based law firm. Peter is a former Fulbright Scholar, with a JD degree from Harvard Law School and a BSFS degree from Georgetown University.