Gerry Shao-Hung Liu

Trident Microsystems, Inc. provides multimedia semiconductor solutions for the digital home entertainment market. The company designs, develops, and markets integrated circuits and related software for the process, display, and transmission of high quality audio, graphics, and images in home consumer electronics applications. These applications are digital TVs (DTV), PC and analog TVs, and set-top boxes. Its products include system-on-a-chip semiconductors. These provide completely integrated solutions for processing and optimizing video, audio, and computer graphic signals, in order to produce high-quality and realistic images and sound. The firm also produces frame rate converters, demodulators, audio decoder products, interface devices, and media processors. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Pericom Semiconductor Corp. designs, manufactures and develops semiconductor interface integrated circuits. It specializes in integrated connectivity, advanced timing, and signal integrity solutions for the computing, communications, and consumer market segments. Pericom technology offers system design solutions to the challenges presented by high-bandwidth, high-speed serial protocols. The company designs and sells semiconductor chips that connect components inside products such as high-definition TVs, smart phones, notebooks, servers, networking and telecom products, and many other applications within the consumer, computing and communication markets. Its ICs, crystals and crystal oscillators are designed to connect, time and condition high speed serial signals like PCI Express, HDMI/DVI, DisplayPort, SATA/SAS, USB, Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel. Pericom's product line includes SiliconConnect, SiliconSwitch, SiliconInterface and SiliconClock. The company was founded by Chi-Ming Hui and John Chi-Hung Hui in June 1990 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Knights Technology, Inc. develops yield management software for the semiconductor industry. The company was founded by Gerry Shao-Hung Liu and Phil Mak and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

S3 Graphics Co. Ltd. provides innovative graphics visualization technologies for the notebook and desktop markets. It offers desktop products, such as desktop graphics processors, integrated graphics processors chipsets, digital signage systems, graphics notebook products, mobile graphics processors, graphics embedded products, and graphics integrated products. The company was founded by Diosdado P. Banatao in 2001 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.