Speakers

Name LIU, CL, Sc. D.
Job title Chairman Company TrendForce
Topic Congratulatory Speech
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.


Name Leo Shen
Job title Product Marketing Manager Company Qualcomm
Topic Qualcomm Multi-mode Multi-band LTE Modem Technology
Leo Shen is now Staff Product Marketing Manager at QTI Qualcomm, for 3G/4G Modem and RF product portfolios. Leo has 15 years of experiences in wireless semiconductor industry and has held mutiple R&D and Marketing roles at Philips, Motorola, RF Micro Devices before Qualcomm. Leo graduated from BUAA with a MS degree.

Name Avril Wu
Job title Assistant Vice President Company DRAMeXchange (TrendForce)
Topic 2014 Smartphone Market Forecast and Mobile DRAM Analysis
Avril Wu , Assistant Vice President, is in charge of DRAM industry market analysis, with focus on upstream wafer suppliers, DRAM makers, module packaging and testing industries, Mobile DRAM, and Smartphone market research.
Before joining DRAMeXchange, she served at AsusTek and department of strategic marketing at SK Hynix . She received her Master of Internal Management Degree (2006) from Portland State University. She is currently attending the GMBA program at the National Taiwan University.

Name Alan Chen
Job title Senior Research Manager Company DRAMeXchange (TrendForce)
Topic 2014 NAND Flash Industry and eMMC Market Trend Analysis
Alan Chen is a NAND Flash analyst at DRAMeXchange. His research mainly focuses on the demand side of NAND Flash, covering NAND Flash controller, UFD and memory card. He worked at ITRI-IEK as a semiconductor industry analyst for 3 years before joining the present company. He received a master’s degree in finance from National Taiwan University.

Name Feng Chen
Job title Vice-president Company Rockchip Electronics
Topic The "Chip" Future of Mobile Internet
Mr. Feng Chen received his Bachelor of Applied Physics at Tsinghua University in 1991. He pursued his Doctorate at Lehigh University in the USA in 1992, and got the Masters Degree in Electronic Engineering in 1995. He serves as Vice-president and Marketing Director since he joint Rockchip Electronics in 2008. From 1996 to October 2002, Mr. Chen has served as researcher at Bell Labs in America, working on research and development of chips for cell phone. During the time, the chips he participated in and took charge of researching and developing were widely used in many famous manufacturers’ productions, such as Nokia、Samsung、Motorola、Ericsson. In addition, he has been awarded many international patents in different fields, such as mixed-digital circuit、low-power consumption、CDMA. From 2002 to 2008, he served as design service center’s chief in SMIC, the biggest wafer plant. Not only completed over 60 deep submicron ASIC designs, he was also in charge of technical documents、reference design cycle of 0.18um to 45um、low-power consumption design、DFM and application service. During that period, he also leaded numerous national research and development projects allotted by the National Science and Technology Committee、Ministry of Information Industry and “863 Project”.

Name Jeffy Chen
Job title Senior Research Manager Company WitsView (TrendForce)
Topic Analysis on Development and Market Condition of Tablet Panel Produt in 2014
Jeffy Chen graduated from sungkyunkwan university. He served as Strategic Sourcing officer in Radiant Opto-Electronics, responsible for the backlight module material supplier management and the making and execution of purchasing strategy. Later he joined LG electronics Taiwan international procurement center, assisting to purchase panels of mobile phone, LCD screen, LCD TV and related matters. Through the business relationship with suppliers (panel factory), he holds physical views on trading patterns and strategy considering between the panel factory and brand factory.

Name Duff Lv
Job title Research Manager Company EnergyTrend (TrendForce)
Topic Battery Life of Mobile Devices—Development of Lithium battery
Duff Lv graduated from the Chemistry Research Institute of National Chung Cheng University. He previously served in Topology Research Institute and AUO. He was involved in Green Vehicle State Planning 2015 and Electrombile Industry Cluster Internationalization State Planning 2020, advancing the industry research mainly from these aspects like industrial technology, business models and policy formulation etc.

Name Eric Qiu
Job title Senior Research Director Company WitsView (TrendForce)
Topic Forecast on Tablet Market in 2014 and Development of Touch Module
Eric Qiu received his Master's degree from Sonoma State University. He served as a display panel business officer in CPT and LCD TV product manager in BenQ. Currently he acts as the Research Director in DRAMeXchange Display Business Department and is primarily responsible for researching tablet computer market, moreover, he also master the development trend of AMOLED, touch module and other key technologies. Eric has almost ten years of working experience in the panel industry chain and is familiar with the upper, middle and lower reaches of the whole supply chain, which enable him dissect the changes and trends in the industry from different perspectives.


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