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. Winbond America has a 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. 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 Company's extensive product line also includes the award-winning series of ChipCorder® voice record and playback ICs as well as hundreds of PC and peripheral-related, consumer electronics, multimedia, and memory solutions. These chips provide the sophisticated technology solutions essential for leading-edge communication, consumer and automotive, industrial products. When integrated into any number of products, the Company's chips increase functionality and streamline man-machine interfaces, making it easier for consumers to benefit from increasingly complex electronic appliances. To date, these ICs have helped to facilitate numerous products, including cellular phones, PCs, audio and video equipment, full-featured phones, pagers, personal digital recorders, PDAs, telephone answering devices, in-car traffic telemetric systems, car stereos, promotional items, toys and more. Worldwide, Winbond is a market leader in the telephone dialer, PC I/O controller, memory, speech synthesizer, and MPEG decoder markets. The Company is the recognized worldwide market leader in the toy IC market.

Founded:	1987
Winbond America Headquarters:	2727 North First Street San Jose, CA 95134 USA Phone: (408) 943-6666 Fax: (408) 544-1789 E-Mail: info@winbond-usa.com Web Address: www.winbond-usa.com
Design, Sales and Support Centers:	San Jose, California Boxborough, Massachusetts Austin, Texas Hamburg, Germany Maple Grove, Minnesota Torrance, CA
Employees:	Approximately 130 locally; more than 3,800 worldwide
Patents:	Corporate-wide, more than 1,450 technology patents; nearly 1,200 additional patents pending
Markets:	Communications, consumer, automotive, industrial, PC and peripherals
Quality:	ISO 9001, QS-9000 Certified
Technology:	Ranging from 1.0µm down to 0.11µm
Fab Capacity:	Three Fabs; more than 100K wafers per month
Winbond America Management Team:	Kuang Chiu, President, Winbond America Thomas Sullivan, Executive Vice President, Winbond, America Dr. Arthur Wang, Vice President, Memory Product Center, Winbond America Peter Himes, Vice President Marketing, Winbond America Ron Abruzzese, Vice President Sales, Winbond America Saleel Awsare, Vice President, Mixed Signal Product Center, Winbond America