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UMC
Group Names Edward Wan Vice President of Engineering
SUNNYVALE,
Calif.ˇXMarch 2, 1999ˇXUMC Group today announced that Edward Wan
has joined the company as vice president of engineering. Wan will
be in charge of establishing new processes to make it easy for chip
developers to utilize UMC Group's fabs.
Jim Kupec, president
of UMC Group (U.S.) noted, "Wan has an impressive background
which we welcome to UMC Group. He brings EDA, Intellectual Property
(IP) and semiconductor technology knowledge to the company. These
are ideal credentials as all three market areas are important to
our foundry business."
Edward Wan stated,
"I am excited to join a company with industry leading process
technology and world class manufacturing capacity. The company is
playing a key role in accelerating the industry movement to develop
strong linkages between independent IP developers, library suppliers,
design services providers, and pure play foundries. UMC Group is
well positioned to be the company of choice for advanced system-on-chip
manufacturing and become the number one wafer foundry in the world."
Wan gained an
extensive engineering management background through various positions
at IP, EDA and semiconductor companies over the past 20 years. Before
joining UMC Group, he was vice president of chip design services
at Aspec Technology, a developer of IP components. Prior to this
he was a vice president of Cadence Design System's Services Group,
responsible for system-on-chip designs. Before this, he was vice
president of North American engineering operations at LSI Logic
Corporation. He also held other engineering management and marketing
positions during his 14-year tenure with LSI Logic. Wan graduated
from University of California, Berkeley where he received a bachelor
of science degree in electrical engineering and computer science.
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