Well-known as chief executive, research/her, design architect, and entrepreneur,
Dr. Nicky Lu is a prominent figure in worldwide IC design and semiconductor industry.
He is the Founder and CEO of Etron Technology, Inc., and the Co-Founder and Executive
of several other high-tech companies (three from start-up to public). He received his
B.S. in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 1975 and M.S. and
Ph.D. in EE from Stanford University in 1978 and 1981, respectively. Dr. Lu worked
for the IBM Research Division and then the Headquarters from 1982 to 1990 and won
numerous IBM recognition awards, including an IBM Corporate Award. He holds over
24 U.S. patents and has published more than 50 technical papers.
Dr. Lu is a respected leader in the electrical engineering world: he was elected to
be a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 1991,
awarded the IEEE 1998 Solid State Circuits Field Award "for pioneering contributions
to high speed dynamic memory design and cell technology," and honored in 1999 with
the membership of National Academy of Engineering of the United States for his
longtime contributions to and achievements in the semiconductor industry. Since
1999, Dr. Lu has pioneered several Known-Good-Die Memory products enabling
customers' stacked-die system chips; this trend summoned the new rise of an
IC Heterogeneous Integration era as described in his plenary talk entitled
"Emerging Technology and Business Solutions for System Chips," in the International
Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in 2004.
Dr. Lu is a Fellow of the Chinese Society for Management of Technology,
Chair Professor and outstanding alumnus of National Chiao-Tung University,
and outstanding alumnus of the Electrical Engineering School of National Taiwan
University. As a co-architect leading the 8" wafer and DRAM technology developments
for Taiwan's semiconductor industry in early 1990s, he was recognized with the
Year 2000 National Medal of Excellence in Science and Technology by the Premier
of the Republic of China.
Dr. Lu also serves as Managing Board Director of the Taiwan Semiconductor Industry
Association (TSIA) and the Association of Allied Industries in the Hsinchu Science
Park, respectively, Chairman of the Asia-Pacific Council of the Fabless Semiconductor
Association (FSA), and Chairman of Stanford Alumni Association, Taiwan.
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