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MILESTONES
| 2008 |
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2008.03 |
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Sunplus licensed hyper-sensitization GPS technology from CORE
Corporation. |
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2008.01 |
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Established a new subsidiary, Sunmedia Technology, in Chengdu. |

| 2007 |
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2007.12 |
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Established a new subsidiary, Sunplus Prof-tek Technology,
in Shenzhen. |
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2007.12 |
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Received certificate of IECQ 080000 for hazardous substance
process management. |
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2007.12 |
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Highly integrated SoC SPG290 with interactive game and education
function won the “Innovation Product Award 2007”
from Hsinchu SIPA. |
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2007.10
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Presented World's first DVD SoC solution with DivX HD playability. |
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2007.09 |
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Sunplus 32-bits processor core S+core® won
the “National Invention and Creation Award” by TIPO,
Ministry of Economics Affairs. |
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2007.04 |
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Spun-off Sunplus mMobile's multi-media center into a new subsidiary,
Sunplus mMedia Inc. |
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2007.03 |
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Completed the return of capital with capital NT$ 5,129,536,650 |
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2007.02 |
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Licensed digital TV SoC IP to Silicon Image, Inc. and received
US$40 million for license fee. |

| 2006 |
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2006.12 |
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Established a new record high with 2006 profit after tax,
NT$2.97 billion. |
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2006.12 |
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Approved return of capital NT$5.11 billion by shareholders’
extraordinary general meeting |
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2006.12 |
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Spun-off Personal Entertainment Business Unit and Advanced
Business Unit into Sunplus mMobile Inc. |
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2006.12 |
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Spun-off Controller & Peripheral Business Unit into Sunplus
Innovation Technology Inc. |
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2006.06 |
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Demonstrated the new IC solutions at Computex Taipei 2006 |
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2006.03 |
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Spun-Off LCD IC business to Orise Technology Co., Ltd. |
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2006.01 |
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Revealed new products at CES2006 |
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2006.01 |
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Net sales of 2005 of NT$18.781 billion |

| 2005 |
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2005.12 |
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Re-Organization and Spin-off LCD IC Business.The new organization
includes 4 product Business Units as HE (Home Entertainment)
BU, PE (Personal Entertainment) BU, C&P (Controller
& Peripheral) BU and Advanced BU. |
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2005.11 |
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Announced first DVD Chip worldwide to Receive New DivX
Ultra Certification |
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2005.10 |
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Announced first PHS baseband IC going on mass production |
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2005.09 |
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Monthly sales of NT$1,899 million set a new record high. |
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2005.08 |
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Announced Mobile Imaging Controller with MPEG4 applied
to the world's first mega pixel Mobile IP Cam |
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2005.08 |
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Merged ITRI/CCL 3G team and started to develop 3G handset
IC solutions |
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2005.08 |
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Announced collaboration with Aglient on Next-Generation
Optical Mouse Solutions |
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2005.06 |
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Introduced USB2.0-to-Serial ATA Bridge Solutions Targeting
External Serial-ATA Storage Applications |
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2005.06 |
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Announced Taiwan's first 32bit S+Core®
processor. |

| 2004 |
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2004.12 |
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MFP SoC with 4800dpi super high photo image quality won
“Innovation Product Award 2004” from
Hsinchu Science Park Administration |
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2004.12 |
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Won “R&D Performance Award 2004”
from Hsinchu Science Park Administration |
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2004.09 |
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Monthly sales of NT$1,875 million set record high. |
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2004.08 |
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Stock dividends, employee bonus, capital surplus reinvested
as capital rose to NT$8,753 million. |

| 2003 |
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2003.12 |
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Monthly sales of NT$ 1,275 million set record high while
the net sales for 2003 added up to NT$11.1 billion as landmark. |
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2003.12 |
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Won "Innovation Product Award 2003"
and "R&D Performance Award 2003"
from Hsinchu Science Park Administration |
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2003.08 |
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Established new milestone for monthly sales over NT$1
Billion. |
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2003.08 |
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Aligned to joint-develop of System-on--Chip (SoC) solutions
and deliver broad portfolio of digital media solutions with
Silicon Image Inc. |
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2003.07 |
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Stock dividends reinvested as new capital rose to NT$7,775
million. |
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2003.07 |
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Licensed PanelLink DVI core IP from Silicon Image to develop
dual-mode LCD controller solutions. |
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2003.06 |
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Announced reorganization by altering the Product Business
Unit Systems to Functional Unit Systems. |
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2003.05 |
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Licensed MPEG-4 video compression technology from DivXNetworks
to create DivX certified IC solutions for consumer electronic
products. |
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2003.04 |
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Completed acquisition of Oak Optical Storage Business
and spin-off a new venture, Sunext Technology. |
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2003.02 |
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32-bit core IP licensed from MIPS Technology for next-generation
with OAK. |

| 2002 |
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2002.09 |
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Sunplus
sets the monthly sales record for the amount of NT$ 860millions. |
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2002.08 |
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Sunplus
introduces its 7-in-1 card reader controller. |
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2002.07 |
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Sunplus
purchases a new office building (Building B) at Science
Park, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan. |
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2002.07 |
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Sunplus
sponsors the new Innovation park at Science Park, Hsin-Chu. |
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2002.06 |
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Sunplus
increases its capital to NT$ 6,949 millions. |
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2002.06 |
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Sunplus
introduces the 16-bit µ'nSP® technology for
Short Message Service (SMS). |
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2002.04 |
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Sunplus
announces the 4-million pixels chip solution for the high
resolution digital still camera. |
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2002.02 |
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Sunplus
launches the ERP/SAP system, Enterprise Resource Planning,
to strengthen its efficiency and competency. |
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2002.01 |
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Sunplus
establishes a sub-company at Shanghai, China to offer
a thorough customer service in the mainland area. |

| 2001 |
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2001.12 |
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Sunplus completes the Grandtech merger to
enhance its R&D ability in image SoC core technologies. |
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2001.10 |
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MPEG-II decoder released for DVD player. |
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2001.09 |
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Multi media video controller released for
LCD TV. |
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2001.08 |
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Monthly sales of 722 million set record
high. |
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2001.07 |
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Issued stock dividends for 164 million
shares, therefore total shares increased from 370 million
to 534 million. |
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2001.06 |
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Using µnSP
as the core technology to develop SPCE500 for voice recognition
and voice compression/decompression. |
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2001.03 |
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Sunplus
successfully lunched its Global Depositary Receipts on
the London Stock Exchange. |
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2001.01 |
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Million-pixel
Digital Camera Processor released for Triple Mode Camera. |
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2001.01 |
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SPOD80
OLED Driver IC released. |

| 2000 |
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2000.12 |
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Sunplus received the Distinguished
Achievement Award from the Hsin-Chu Science-Based Industrial
Park for its outstanding achievement in technological research
and development. |
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2000.09 |
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Company reorganization, set Consumer
and Multimedia Business Units for company's long term development
and the board meeting appointed Mr. Yarn Chen Chen as the
president. |
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Certificate of ISO 9001 Quality
Assessment by RWTUV. |
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2000.06 |
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1Mbit bus flash released for
expansion memory. |
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2000.06 |
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Issued stock dividends for 100.88
million shares, therefore total shares increased from 269.12
million to 370 million. |
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2000.05 |
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MPEG Audio & CD Decoder SPCA752A
released for CD -based portable audio device. |
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Voice engine SPDS106 released
for educational products. |
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2000.02 |
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XGA Digital Camera Processor
released for Dual Mode Camera. |
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2000.01 |
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Sunplus was listed on the main
board of the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE). |

| 1999 |
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1999.10 |
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Sunplus Technology was elected to the world's
300 best companies by Forbes magazine. |
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1999.10 |
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Sunplus Technology, in a joint effort with
Goldkey, received a grant from Industrial Development Bureau
of MOEA for the contact/contactless Combi smart card development
project. |
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1999.08 |
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Issued stock dividends for 85.1 million shares,
therefore total shares increased from 184 million to 269.1
million. |
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1999.07 |
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SPCA501C, USB PC Camera Image Processor for
CMOS Image Sensor announced. |
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1999.06 |
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Sunplus Technology developed SPCA506A, USB
TV-to-PC Processor which applied for PC Camera. |
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1999.05 |
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DSP-based speech synthesizer, SPDS105, announced
and applied for electric story book & interactive toys.
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| 1998 |
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1998.10 |
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SPCA501A, USB PC Camera Image Processor for
CCD Image Sensor announced. |
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1998.10 |
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Lower cost, higher performance, all new enhanced
speech synthesizer product, SPES series, announced. |
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1998.07 |
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Issued stock dividends for 78.5 million shares,
therefore total shares increased from 105.5 million to 184
million. |
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1998.06 |
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The Taiwan Top 1000 Manufacturers of 1997
from the Common Wealth Magazine ranked Sunplus Technology
as the 10th in profitability, the 13th in overall operation
and 357th in revenue. |
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1998.03 |
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SPLG01 (0.6µm), the multi-color LCD
controller chip, was announced and applied with the Electrical-Controlled-Birefringence
STN LCD. |

| 1997 |
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1997.09 |
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Sunplus Technology was IPO on the Over-The-Counter
stock market with the record high price of NT$136 per share.
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1997.09 |
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Monthly sales of NT$500 millions set record
high. |
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1997.08 |
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Sunplus Audio Coding Method 480 (SACM480),
a high-compression-rate voice algorithm, applied on storing
entire storybook in a single DSP chip. |
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1997.06 |
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Issued stock dividends for
41.14 million shares, therefore total shares increased from
64.36 million to 105.5 million. |
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1997.04 |
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Sunplus Technology received
a grant from Science Park Administration for an Image Compression
Algorithm Research project for Digital Still Camera chip
set. |
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1997.01 |
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Grand opening of Sunplus
building with 10Kpcs 6" Wafers/Month in-house wafer circuit
probe testing capacity. |

| 1996 |
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1996.10 |
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The Intelligent Voice Coding
System, Soundplus for SPMA product series was released.
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1996.05 |
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Issued stock dividends for 24.76
million shares, therefore total shares increased from 39.6
million to 64.36 million. |
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1996.04 |
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"The most productive IC design
company" evaluated by Hsinchu Science-Based Industrial Park
Administration. |

| 1995 |
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1995.08 |
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8-channel music synthesizer
chip, SPF206 (0.6µm) released. |
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1995.06 |
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Issued stock dividends for
19.8 million shares, therefore total shares increased from
19.8 million to 39.6 million. |
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1995.05 |
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A Dot-matrix LCD controller
with 512KB ROM capacity, SPL512 (0.45µm), was developed
for dictionary applications. |
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1995.05 |
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Sunplus Technology cooperated
with TSMC in developing 0.45µm Flat Cell ROM process. |
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1995.01 |
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Sunplus H.K. established in
Kowloon offering the technical support for overseas customers.
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| 1994 |
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1994.09 |
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In-house wafer circuit probe
testing operation started. |
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1994.03 |
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The first microcontroller-based
stereo voice synthesizer with thirty seconds duration, SPC120
(0.8µm), was released. |

| 1993 |
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1993.10 |
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Company increased capital to
NT$60 million and moved into Science Park. |
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1993.03 |
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The first LCD controller, SPL01
(1.2µm), entered mass production. |

| 1992 |
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1992.03 |
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An audio/video controller,
SPV01 (1.2µm), was announced for TV applications.
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| 1991 |
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1991.11 |
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The Talking Watch Chip, SPU01
(1.2µm), entered mass production. |
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1991.09 |
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The first voice synthesizer,
SPS12 (1.2µm), entered mass production. |

| 1990 |
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1990.08 |
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Eight engineers founded Sunplus
Technology with NT$23 million of registered capital in Hsin-Chu
City, Taiwan. |

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