K.C. Shih

K.C. Shih has almost 30 years of experience working in the high-tech industry. Mr. Shih observed the emerging of the post-PC era that the demand for IC is migrating from ASIC to SoC. In 1998, he founded Global Unichip Corp. with Dr. Nicky Lu and Dr. Steve Lin, to be the world's first dedicated SoC Design Foundry. In recognition of its leading market position and successful business model, TSMC invested and took partnership with Global Unichip in 2003. Global Unichip Corp. has successfully demonstrated its leadership in advanced SoC designs (i.e. 0.13£gm, 90nm) and has listed at the Taiwan Stock Exchange in 2006. Currently, Mr. Shih serves as the board member of Global Unichip Corp.

In 1990, Mr. Shih was the President of Cadence Design Systems Inc. Mr. Shih then founded Faraday Technology Corporation in a partnership with UMC and served as the Vice Chairman and CEO. Faraday is the first IC Design Service Company in the world, based on its ASIC expertise to provide ASIC technology and design service to Taiwan, USA and other customers worldwide. In 1998, Faraday successfully went public in Taiwan and its stock price has once risen to the top.

In 1983, Mr. Shih founded Suntek in developing an under $1,000 UNIX PC with NS32000, targeted for college students on the college local area network. In accordance with the revenue, one may say that Suntek did not make the grade; however, they indeed made a profound impact on Acer.

While at M.I.T., Mr. Shih was an original member of the MULTICS team. MULTICS was the first multi-processing, multi-programming, network operating system running on ARPAnet. It was later re-written to become UNIX at Bell Labs. He then worked at DEC involving in the design of the famous VAX computer. In 1980, he joined National Semiconductor as Director of the MESA project, in charge of the NS32000 32bit microprocessor development.

Mr. Shih earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan, and his Master of Science degree and PhD. studies in Electrical Engineering from M.I.T.