Technology >> CEO Interviews >> February 18, 2005

Yang Zhao – Memsic Inc

DR. YANG ZHAO is President & CEO, Memsic, Inc. Before founding MEMSIC, Dr. Zhao had been a key member in Analog Devices, MEMS division for seven years. Dr. Zhao has a Ph.D. in EE from Princeton Daniel Tsui who won the 1998 Nobel Prize in physics) plus two Master degrees in both Physics and EE. He holds 9 US patents in IC circuit, processing, packaging and MEMS technologies. Profile
TWST: If you would, Dr., what is MEMSIC?

Mr. Zhao: We call it MEMS IC Company. We do MEMS IC. We are 90% an IC

company, 10% ME

Ms. In other words, we specialize in semiconductor ICs, but also