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MILESTONES

 

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

2007      
  2007.12   Established a new subsidiary, Sunplus Prof-tek Technology, in Shenzhen.
  2007.12   Received certificate of IECQ 080000 for hazardous substance process management.
  2007.12   Highly integrated SoC SPG290 with interactive game and education function won the “Innovation Product Award 2007” from Hsinchu SIPA.
 

2007.10

  Presented World's first DVD SoC solution with DivX HD playability.
  2007.09   Sunplus 32-bits processor core S+core® won the “National Invention and Creation Award” by TIPO, Ministry of Economics Affairs.
  2007.04   Spun-off Sunplus mMobile's multi-media center into a new subsidiary, Sunplus mMedia Inc.
  2007.03   Completed the return of capital with capital NT$ 5,129,536,650
  2007.02   Licensed digital TV SoC IP to Silicon Image, Inc. and received US$40 million for license fee.

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

2005      
  2005.12   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.
  2005.11   Announced first DVD Chip worldwide to Receive New DivX Ultra Certification
  2005.10   Announced first PHS baseband IC going on mass production
  2005.09   Monthly sales of NT$1,899 million set a new record high.
  2005.08   Announced Mobile Imaging Controller with MPEG4 applied to the world's first mega pixel Mobile IP Cam
  2005.08   Merged ITRI/CCL 3G team and started to develop 3G handset IC solutions
  2005.08   Announced collaboration with Aglient on Next-Generation Optical Mouse Solutions
  2005.06   Introduced USB2.0-to-Serial ATA Bridge Solutions Targeting External Serial-ATA Storage Applications
  2005.06   Announced Taiwan's first 32bit S+Core® processor.

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

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

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

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

2000      
 
2000.12
  Sunplus received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Hsin-Chu Science-Based Industrial Park for its outstanding achievement in technological research and development.
 
2000.09
  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.
 

2000.06

  Certificate of ISO 9001 Quality Assessment by RWTUV.
 
2000.06
  1Mbit bus flash released for expansion memory.
 
2000.06
  Issued stock dividends for 100.88 million shares, therefore total shares increased from 269.12 million to 370 million.
 
2000.05
  MPEG Audio & CD Decoder SPCA752A released for CD -based portable audio device.
 

2000.05

  Voice engine SPDS106 released for educational products.
 
2000.02
  XGA Digital Camera Processor released for Dual Mode Camera.
 
2000.01
  Sunplus was listed on the main board of the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE).

1999      
  1999.10   Sunplus Technology was elected to the world's 300 best companies by Forbes magazine.
  1999.10   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.
  1999.08   Issued stock dividends for 85.1 million shares, therefore total shares increased from 184 million to 269.1 million.
  1999.07   SPCA501C, USB PC Camera Image Processor for CMOS Image Sensor announced.
  1999.06   Sunplus Technology developed SPCA506A, USB TV-to-PC Processor which applied for PC Camera.
  1999.05   DSP-based speech synthesizer, SPDS105, announced and applied for electric story book & interactive toys.

1998      
  1998.10   SPCA501A, USB PC Camera Image Processor for CCD Image Sensor announced.
  1998.10   Lower cost, higher performance, all new enhanced speech synthesizer product, SPES series, announced.
  1998.07   Issued stock dividends for 78.5 million shares, therefore total shares increased from 105.5 million to 184 million.
  1998.06   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.
  1998.03   SPLG01 (0.6µm), the multi-color LCD controller chip, was announced and applied with the Electrical-Controlled-Birefringence STN LCD.

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

Grand opening of Sunplus building with 10Kpcs 6" Wafers/Month in-house wafer circuit probe testing capacity.

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

1995      
  1995.08   8-channel music synthesizer chip, SPF206 (0.6µm) released.
  1995.06   Issued stock dividends for 19.8 million shares, therefore total shares increased from 19.8 million to 39.6 million.
  1995.05   A Dot-matrix LCD controller with 512KB ROM capacity, SPL512 (0.45µm), was developed for dictionary applications.
  1995.05   Sunplus Technology cooperated with TSMC in developing 0.45µm Flat Cell ROM process.
  1995.01   Sunplus H.K. established in Kowloon offering the technical support for overseas customers.

1994      
  1994.09   In-house wafer circuit probe testing operation started.
  1994.03   The first microcontroller-based stereo voice synthesizer with thirty seconds duration, SPC120 (0.8µm), was released.

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

1992      
  1992.03   An audio/video controller, SPV01 (1.2µm), was announced for TV applications.

1991      
  1991.11   The Talking Watch Chip, SPU01 (1.2µm), entered mass production.
  1991.09   The first voice synthesizer, SPS12 (1.2µm), entered mass production.

1990      
 

1990.08

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

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