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 Vice Chairman and CEO 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.
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