Founder

Shine Chung graduated from Harvard University in 1980. He started his career as an SRAM technologist and designer at AMD. He joined VLSI Design Associate as an ASIC circuit and logic designer in custom design projects later.

Then he worked for HP Labs on the Super Workstation project since 1988. The RISC architecture he helped to define was transferred to Intel in 1994 as the Merced architecture and the cornerstone of Itanium chips. After HP, he worked for Digital on StrongARM 1500, AMD on K5, and some startups on flash memory devices and designs. In 1999, he co-founded Audia Technologies, a hearing-aid IC and device company.

In 2003, he returned to Taiwan and worked for TSMC as a Director in Design Service Division to develop various IPs such as SRAM, embed-DRAM, electrical fuse, and emerging memories. He single-handedly built up the TSMC’s electrical fuse program from 0.13 um to 90 nm. Because developing electrical fuse and logic bipolar device, He was awarded TSMC Corporate Innovation Award in 2007 and 2008, respectively.

He was a member of technical program committee of ISSCC and VLSI Symposium from 2006 to 2010. He delivered tutorials, forums, and joined panel discussions at IEEE SOC Conference, VLSI Symposium, and ISSCC from time to time. He published two highly acclaimed papers on electrical fuse in VLSI Circuit Symposium in 2007 and 2009.