8 Acquisition International - Issue 1 2022 It has, of course, been dedicated to this goal from the very beginning. Having been founded in 2012 by Andy Hsu and his team in San Jose, California, the company owns more than 20 U.S. patents at present in memory design architecture and cell structure, securing its place as a household name in flash memory. Founded and led by a team of dedicated, industry-leading innovators, Andy Hsu – the CEO – takes great pride in the efficacy and incredible work of the people around him, gathering like-minded creators to his side who are equally interested in bettering the future of technology in order to improve the prospects of the global society. Being both NEO and CEO, Andy wears many hats within the company proper. Due to his own extreme level of dedication to the cause, he uses his 25 years of experience in the semiconductor industry proper to ensure that every innovation released to the public and professional semiconductor market segment is the best that it could possibly be. Before founding NEO SEMICONDUCTOR as a company, he led the R&D and engineering teams of a start-up company for 16 years, developing more than 60 products in NOR flash, EEPROM, and NVSRAM that have become renowned as extraordinary achievements and innovations in their own right. Fundamentally, Andy’s leadership of the company comes from a deep place of understanding regarding how the wider industry works, both as a market segment and as a place of pushing towards a brighter future for all. Over his time in the sector, he has consistently been working at the top of his game in order to push for the betterment of technology in the macro scale in this way, and today can proudly say that he is the inventor of over 100 granted US patents in the nonvolatile memory area. Having earned an MS in Electrical, Computer, and System Engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and a BS from the National Cheung-Kung University in Taiwan, his beginnings in making a name for himself began all the way back with his thesis in Artificial Neural Networks that he penned during Graduate School. Andy is backed up by Ray Tsay, the Co-Founder and VPof Engineering for NEO SEMICONDUCTOR. With over 30 years of experience under his belt in the semiconductor industry and boasting a wide depth and breadth of knowledge regarding the companies that occupy the sector, his current expertise has been built up through working in many different corporate positions for many different organisations such as Silicon Solution, ICT, and EG&G Reticon. Having led teams in charge of testing, product development, and product manufacture, he has cultivated a truly incomparable understanding of the market, the customers, and the competition that currently make up the dynamic ecosystem of the semiconductor industry. Additionally, it was in these positions that he built up his current outstanding level of knowledge in various products from CCD to CPLD, as well as SRAM, EEPROM, EPROM, and Flash Memory. Ray, holding an MS degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Arizona State University, an MS in Chemical and Material Engineering from the University of Iowa, and a BS in Chemical Engineering from the National Central University of Taiwan, is a critical pillar in NEO SEMICONDUCTOR’s structure, and his work has been invaluable in making the firm what it is today. Company: NEO SEMICONDUCTOR Contact: Andy Hsu Website: neosemic.com
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