OmniVision Appoints Former TSMC Executive as Vice President, Quality and Reliability.SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- OmniVision Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :OVTI OVTI OmniVision Technologies Incorporated ), one of the world's leading suppliers of CMOS image sensors, today announced the appointment of John T. Yue, Ph.D., MBA, as Vice President, Quality and Reliability. Dr. Yue joins OmniVision from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), where he spent three years as Vice President of Quality and Reliability and two years as Vice President of Technology with the company's North America operations. In his new position at OmniVision, Dr. Yue is responsible for overseeing global product quality and reliability and manages a team of three regional Quality and Reliability Managers. He reports directly to OmniVision President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Shaw Hong. Prior to joining TSMC, Dr. Yue spent 17 years with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. ) in Sunnyvale, California, where he held various positions, including Director of Reliability and Quality in the Corporate Quality Division and was an AMD fellow. Prior to AMD, Dr. Yue held management positions at National Semiconductor and Texas Instruments. During his 32 years in the semiconductor industry, Dr. Yue has held management positions in silicon materials research, production and process engineering, process integration, technology reliability and quality engineering. He has a Ph.D. and Masters degree in Physics from Stanford University, a B.S. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, , and an MBA from Southern Methodist University Southern Methodist University, at Dallas, Tex.; United Methodist; coeducational; chartered 1911. The school's facilities include laboratories for electron microscopy and stable isotopes, a museum of paleontology, and a graduate research center. . He holds eight U.S. patents and has published over 40 technical papers. He serves on the MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Semiconductor Entrepreneurship Board and is a senior member of IEEE, IRPS and the American Physical Society The American Physical Society was founded in 1899 and is the world's second largest organization of physicists. The Society publishes more than a dozen science journals, including the world renowned Physical Review and Physical Review Letters, and organizes more than twenty science . Commenting on Dr. Yue's appointment, OmniVision President and CEO Shaw Hong said: "The appointment of John Yue is great news. His track record speaks for itself and he brings to OmniVision a wealth of engineering management experience and technical expertise, gained working with some of the world's leading foundry and semiconductor companies. He is a welcome addition to our executive team." About OmniVision OmniVision Technologies designs and markets high-performance semiconductor image sensors. Its OmniPixel and CameraChip products are highly integrated single-chip CMOS image sensors for mass-market consumer and commercial applications such as mobile phones, digital still cameras, security and surveillance systems, interactive video games, PCs and automotive imaging systems. Additional information is available at www.ovt.com. OmniVision, CameraChip and OmniPixel are trademarks of OmniVision Technologies, Inc. |
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