Roy Kannan

Catalyst Semiconductor, Inc. engages in the design, development and sale of semiconductor products. Its products are used in communication, computing, industrial automation, consumer and automotive applications. It offers serial and parallel Flash/electrically erasable programmable read only memories (EEPROM), programmable micro-controller supervisory and voltage reference circuits and mixed signal devices. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

ProMOS Technologies, Inc. engages in the research, design, development, manufacture, and sale of memory products. It offers double data rate, double data rate 2 & 3, mobile and KGD double data rate synchronous dynamic random access memory products. It also offers bluetooth & radio frequency identification products and provides design, assembly engineering, testing and field application engineering services for memory products. The company was founded on December 12, 1996 and is headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan.

Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. is a specialized semiconductor foundry with a strong focus on high quality services and advanced value-added technologies, including embedded nonvolatile memory, high voltage, and low leakage processes. The company started operations in 2003 and has been one of the fastest growing companies in the industry. The company is located in the Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park in Pudong, Significant shareholders in Grace include Shanghai Alliance Investment, Cheung Kong Holdings and Hutchison Whampoa of Hong Kong. Other important shareholders are Silicon Storage Technology, Sanyo, and private equity firms GEMS and UCL Asia.