DRAMeXchange Compuforum 2007 Speaker List

DRAMeXchange Compuforum 2007 is aimed to have the attendees to hear the viewpoints from industry leaders and also provide a perfect business platform to discover business opportunity.

Listed in speaking order.

Dr. C. L. Liu received his Sc.D. degree (1962) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was on the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1962-72) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1972-98), and served as President and Professor of Computer Science at the National Tsing Hua University in Hsinchu, Taiwan from 1998 to 2002.
In addition, he serves as Board member and consultant at a number of high tech companies in Taiwan, and is active in educational as well as charitable services on a worldwide basis. His expertise is in the semiconductor area, particularly in the design and manufacturing aspects.

He is a member of Academia Sinica, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Mr. Feurle is Vice President of Qimonda AG and General Manager of the Business Unit Graphics, located in the Qimonda head quarter in Munich (Germany). In his role as GM of the Business Unit Graphics he heads the overall graphics DRAM business of Qimonda, containing the global marketing and operation activities as well as all GDDRx development projects and the respective technology shrinks.

Alex Wang received his Ph. D. degree in Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is currently the Vice President of Product Strategy, Powerchip Semiconductor.

In 1996-2000, he was President and CEO of Programmable Microelectronics Corporation (PMC). In 2001-2005, he became Corporate VP and GM of Memory IC Business Group, Winbond Electronics Corp.

Alex Wang joined Powerchip Semiconductor in 2005, where he also has many years of experience in the memory industry.

Joyce Yang is the VP of memory Industry Research Division. She is responsible for in-depth analysis, evaluation, forecasting, and research of DRAM areas.

Joyce Yang received a M.S. Finance degree from Texas A&M University. She worked as a DRAM product manager in charge of DRAM pricing forecast and procurement for three years in a top module house in San Jose, California USA. She has worked in DRAMeXchange since September 2003 and contributed foresight and insightful analysis on DRAM research in past 4 years.

Henry is the founder and CEO of WitsView Technology Corp. In early 2004, he led a group of sophisticated industry analysts with years of experience in establishing WitsView, where they rapidly propelled it to become a leading and professional research firm in the TFT-LCD industry.

Prior to entering into the TFT-LCD industry, he served four years as the Research Director for DRAMeXchange covering the semiconductor industry. Taking advantage of his background in information management, he has been involved in research and quantitative analysis to create and deliver value-added knowledge and market intelligence to industrial participants. Henry received his MBA from National Taiwan University.

Amber Huffman is a Principal Engineer in the Storage Technologies Group at Intel where her responsibilities include storage performance and architecture. Her current projects concentrate on architectural definition and product development for the Open NAND Flash Interface (ONFI) and Serial ATA storage interfaces. Amber serves as the chairperson of the ONFI technical team, the technical editor for the Serial ATA specification, and as the chairperson of the AHCI Workgroup that defines the programming interface for Serial ATA. Amber has been awarded 8 patents in storage architecture. Amber holds a BSE in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan, an MSE from Stanford University in Electrical Engineering, and has been with Intel for 10 years.

Gibson Chen received a Ph. D. degree of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering (MANE), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States
Majoring in Experimental Fluid Mechanics, Gibson has more than 11 years professional experiences in memory field. He had joined A-DATA Tech. Corp. since 2002 as Vice President of BUII (Flash Memory Product Line), responsible for flash memory product line, including product marketing, planning and application.

• Creating major product lines, including USB flash disk, flash memory card, card adapters and multi-media USB products.
• Flash memory quantity increasing 70 times in Nov,2004.
• Familiar with flash memory suppliers, controller vendors and major production vendor chain.

Specialty–

• Flash Memory Marketing Strategy – to find the niche of the company and to develop strategy and setup cooperation network with partners.
• Marketing Communication – exhibit show, internet marketing, product promotion and press release.
• Setup Flash Memory Product lines – USB flash disk, flash memory cards, and Multi-function flash memory products, such with MP3, with finger-print and with WiFi or Bluetooth products..

Flash Memory Application on Industrial PC – DiskOnChip (DOC), IDE flash module and flash disk.

Ms. Doreet Oren is responsible for the Product Marketing of PC and Industrial products from SanDisk. Her research is based on SanDisk's demand and helps represent SanDisk's view via press interviews, analyst meetings, speeches and white papers.

Internally, she helps devise product market communication strategies. She is responsible for the launch of new products and product position via press announcements. In addition, she is in charge of the marketing material and sales kits for SanDisk.

Wayne is a Research director at Memory Industry Research Division. He also focuses on the flash memory market. In this role, Wayne provides professional view, in-depth market research, and analysis on NAND flash trends and opportunities. His research includes price forecasts, market share reports, and market trends.

Prior to DRAMeXchange, Wayne held the positions of research director at financial sector where he advised worldwide investors on electronic technology trends.

Wayne holds an M.B.A. from the National Taiwan University

Fee includes the admission to the conference, program materials and refreshments.

— Day pass $ 250 USD

Early Bird Discount

Delegates will enjoy an Early Bird Discount if registration is made with payment settled on or before May 11, 2007.

— Early Bird Day pass with $ 200 USD