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Company Profile |
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| Epicom is a Taiwan-based fabless, RF front-end chip and FEM solution provider, serving wireless OEM, ODM and EMS customers. Epicom focuses on innovative RF front-end integrated solutions using advanced semiconductor technology for existing and emerging mobile communication platforms. Epicom's highly experienced design team provides the most integrated and cost-effective solutions to answer its customers' end-product development and time-to-market need. |
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Competitive Advantages |
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Epicom has a strong team with the best
RF front-end technology and is close in proximity
to its major customers and strategic partners. |
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Epicom's RF front-end integrated solution
will yield higher performance and lower
production cost for its customers' products. |
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Epicom is in a unique position to provide
its valued customers with state of the art
wireless front-end technology, fast time-to-market
products, and low-cost high-volume production.
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Business Model |
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Epicom is a Taiwan based, fabless RF front-end
solution company focused on its chip and
module products with emphasis on developing
intellectual property (IP) for volume production.
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Epicom benefits from state of the art
RF technology and leverage on strategic
partners in Taiwan/Asia Pacific for low-cost
and high-volume production. |
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Technical Expertise |
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Epicom's technical group has more
than 100 man-years of combined experience in microwave
IC (MMIC), radio-frequency IC (RFIC) and sub-system
design, development, manufacturing, and applications.
We have expertise in all of the areas relevant
to wireless design from device modeling package
3D simulation to system architecture design. Our
work covers the commercial, industrial, and defense
fields, with radio frequency experience ranging
from a few megahertz, up to 40GHz. Our experience
covers a broad range:
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MMIC design (SiGe, CMOS, GaAs and InP) |
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RF device modeling (FET, HEMT, BJT, HBT,
diodes) |
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Semiconductor fabrication (GaAs, InP,
devices, MMIC, OEIC) |
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RF wafer, device and IC testing up to
50GHz |
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RF module and RF system design |
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Major Customers |
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Major communication and IT system houses
requiring high yield embedded RF front-end
module solutions. |
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Major ODM/OEM customers requiring cost
down and/or custom solutions for fast time-to-market
products. |
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Wireless component customers requiring
Linearized active devices for their subsystem
modules. |
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Management Team |
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| Chairman
- Kenneth Tai |
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Mr. Tai currently sits on the Board of Directors of several hi-tech companies. Mr. Tai was also one of the co-founders of the Acer Group.
Mr. Tai received his Bachelor of Science
degree in Electrical Engineering from
the National Chiao Tung University
in Taiwan and Master of Business Administration
degree from Tamkang University in
Taiwan. |
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| President
and CEO - Yi-Ching
Pao |
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Yi-Ching Pao received
his B.S. degree in Electrophysics
from National Chiao-Tung University
(Taiwan, R.O.C.), the MSEE degree
from Pennsylvania State University,
and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical
Engineering from Stanford University.
He pioneered the effort of developing
a number of state-of-the-art devices
and Integrated Circuits which won
him the 1992 IEEE MTT Prize Award,
and two International R&D100 Awards
for the most significant new technology
development. Yi-Ching Pao was also
elected an IEEE fellow in the year
2000.
He has over 18 years of industrial
experience at Varian, Litton (Filtronics),
and later a founder and CEO of Oepic,
working on high speed devices, MMICs,
and OEICs. |
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President, Engineering -
Cindy H. C.
Yuen |
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Cindy Yuen received
the B.S. degree in Physics from Tsing
Hua University in Taiwan and the M.S.
and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from
Stanford University.
She started her career with Varian
working on the developments of Ku-band
power MMICs. In 1993, she joined Space
Systems/Loral as the Manager of Advanced
MMIC/MIC Development. She was later
promoted to Engineering Department
Manager of RF Electronics and Department
Manager of RF Electronics Product
Line responsible for the design and
development of receivers, channel
amplifier and linearizer products
as well as establishing the technical
capabilities in digital communication
and signal processing.
She has authored over fifty technical
papers and co-authored one book, principally
in the field of high speed devices,
MMICs, and OEICs. She is the recipient
of the 1988 R&D-100 award for
the development of 2-20 GHz HEMT MMIC
amplifier. |
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| Vice
President, Operations - David
Wang |
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| David Wang received
his BS, MSEE and EMBA degrees from
National Chiao Tung University. Mr.
Wang has over 18 years of experience
in communications and instrumentation
market. He was also the 1997 Outstanding
Young Engineer Award winner. He was
formerly VP of Engineering and Manufacturing
of Radiantech. |
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| Vice President, Sales and Marketing - Dr. Fred Fong |
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| Dr. Fred Fong has 30 years working experience in business development and product marketing. He joined Epicom since 2009. Formally he was Director of NXP responsible for the management of technical support team serving customers in Greater China.
Fred began his career at Philips Taiwan Limited in 1992 and held various positions in Marketing/GM at Philips locations in US and APAC. He left Philips in 1997 and joined Arima Communication as GM based in Nanjing. After IPO, he left Arima and joined Jabil Circuit as the Director of Design Service APAC based in Shanghai.
Fred earned BS EE degree from National Taiwan University, Master and Ph. D. degree both from University of Pittsburgh, PA., USA.
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| Chief
Scientist - C-K
Clive Tzuang |
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Ching-Kuang C. Tzuang received the
B.S. degree in Electronic Engineering
from the National Chiao Tung University,
Hsinchu, Taiwan, the M.S. degree from
the University of California at Los
Angeles, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical
Engineering from the University of
Texas at Austin, where he worked on
high-speed transient analyses of monolithic
microwave integrated circuits. In
the early 1980's, he was with TRW,
Redondo Beach, CA, working on analog
and digital monolithic microwave integrated
circuits. Since 1986, he has been
with the Institute of Communication
Engineering, National Chiao Tung University,
Hsinchu, Taiwan.
Ching-Kuang C. Tzuang is also the
IEEE fellow with 20 years of industry
and research experience. Currently
Professor and Director, Advanced Radio
Technologies and Systems Center at
National Chiao Tung University and
at the National Taiwan University
(NTU). |
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