Chairman Profile
Nicky Lu Ph.D., IEEE Fellow, NAE (USA) Member
- Chair/Founder, Etron, eEver & eYs3D Technology Companies
- Chair, AI-on-Chip Taiwan Alliance (AITA)
- IEEE Highest Technical Award Winner In Solid-State Circuits Field
- Chair (2013-17) & Board Director, Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association (TSIA)
- Chair (2009-11), Board Director & APAC Leader, Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA)
As a researcher, design architect, entrepreneur and chief executive, Dr. Lu has dedicated his career to the worldwide IC design and semiconductor industry. In addition to Etron Technology, where he serves as Founder, Chair, and CEO, he also co-founded several other notable high-tech companies including Ardentec, Global Unichip and GTBF.
Dr. Lu received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University and M.S. and Ph.D. in EE from Stanford University. He worked for the IBM Research Division and then the Headquarters from 1982 to 1990 and won numerous IBM recognition awards, including an IBM Corporate Award. Dr. Lu holds over 39 granted U.S. patents and has published more than 60 technical papers.
He was elected to be a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 1991. Dr. Lu is a recipient of the "IEEE 1998 Solid-State Circuits Award" for his leading contributions in high-speed dynamic memory design and memory cell device technology. In addition, he was awarded a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) of USA in 1999 for his long-term contributions and achievements to the semiconductor industry.
Since 1999, Dr. Lu has pioneered several Known-Good-Die Memory products, enabling customers’ stacked-die system chips in 3D structures. This trend summoned the new rise of an IC Heterogeneous Integration era as described in his plenary talk - Emerging Technology and Business Solutions for System Chips- in the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in 2004 to reveals the new era of Heterogeneous Integration (HI). This made IEEE develop a Heterogeneous Integration Roadmap (HIR), vital in fulfilling the potential of HI in 2017. It stimulates research, innovations and collaboration across the entire ecosystem in achieving the future vision of HI.
Dr. Lu was a co-architect leading the 8-inch wafer and DRAM/SRAM/LOGIC technology developments for Taiwan’s semiconductor industry in the early 1990s and also created many Taiwan companies as prominent silicon-chip suppliers. Lu received the 2001 National Medals of Excellence in Science and Technology from the Premier of Republic of China, Taiwan for his contributions and technology breakthroughs in high performance memory integrated circuits design. Dr. Lu was elected to be a Fellow (’04) and received the Scientific Management Award (’12) of Chinese Society for Management of Technology. He was given the honor of the “2007 Taiwan’s Golden Merchant Award” from General Chamber of Commerce and the "2010 ERSO Award" by Pan Wen Yuan Foundation to cite for his contribution to the Memory IC Design Industry. He is an Outstanding Alumnus of National Taiwan University and National Chiao-Tung University (also Chair Professor ’05-’07).
He serves or has served as Managing Board Director and was Chairman of TSIA (2013 to 2017), as Board Member of Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) and GSA’s General Chair (2009 to 2011), was Chairman of WSC (World Semiconductor Council) from 2014 to 2015. He is now chairman of AI-on-Chip Taiwan Alliance (AITA) and Board Director of The Allied Association for Science Park Industries.
