Winbond Electronics Corporation (Chinese: 華邦電子公司; pinyin: Huábāng Diànzǐ Gōngsī) is a Taiwan-based corporation founded in 1987. It produces semiconductors and several types of integrated circuits (ICs) including dynamic random-access memory, static random-access memory, serial flash, microcontrollers, and Super I/O chips.

Winbond Electronics Corporation
華邦電子公司
Company typeCorporation
IndustrySemiconductors
Founded1987; 37 years ago (1987)
HeadquartersTaichung, Taiwan
Key people
Arthur Yu-Cheng Chiao
(Chairman & CEO)
Tung-Yi Chan
(President)
Products
Websitewww.winbond.com
Winbond controller
A desktop PC Super I/O, based on the Winbond chip

Winbond is the largest brand-name IC supplier in Taiwan and one of the biggest suppliers of semiconductor solutions worldwide.[citation needed]

History edit

Winbond acquired affiliated chipset maker Symphony Laboratories, of San Jose, California, in October 1995.[1]

The computer IC, consumer electronics IC, and logic product foundry divisions Winbond were spun off as Nuvoton Technology Corporation on 1 July 2008.

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ LaPedus, Mark (October 30, 1995). "Winbond Plays It Out With Symphony". Electronic Buyers' News. CMP Publications: 3 – via ProQuest.

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