Winbond Electronics

Winbond ElectronicsWinbond Electronics Corporation is a total memory solution provider. The Company provides customer driven memory solutions backed by the expert capabilities of product design, R&D, manufacturing, and services. Winbond’s product portfolio, consisting of Specialty DRAM, Mobile DRAM and Code Storage Flash, is widely used by tier 1 customers in communication, consumer electronics, automotive and industrial, and computer peripheral markets.

Winbond Electronics Corp is a Taiwan-based company principally engaged in the research, development, design, manufacture of integrated circuits (ICs) and memory products. The Company’s products mainly include logic ICs, dynamic random access memory (DRAM) products, including mobile RAM products, specialty DRAM products and graphics DRAM products, as well as flash memory products and others. The Company’s products are primarily applied in computers, communications and consumer electronics (3Cs), such as personal computers, wireless networks, set-top boxes, televisions, digital cameras and others. The Company distributes its products both in domestic markets and to overseas markets.

Winbond Electronics Corporation is one of Taiwan’s leading developers and manufacturers of integrated semiconductor devices (ICs). The company operates primarily through two divisions: the Logic IC Business Group and the Memory IC Business Group. The latter represents the largest part of Winbond’s business, with products including DRAMs, Flash Memory, and Pseudo SRAMs. Memory products accounted for nearly 70 percent of the group’s sales. The company’s Logic IC group develops and manufactures IC products for various markets, such as consumer electronics (mobile camera phone chips, gaming consoles, mobile and wireless multimedia components, etc.), as well as ICs for TFT-LCD screens, computer mother-boards, and the like. Logic Products represented nearly 29 percent of Winbond’s revenues in 2004. The company operates three fabs in Taiwan; the company expected to open a new fab by the end of 2005, which was expected to reach full production by 2006. Winbond is listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange.