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Weltrend celebrated the 20th anniversary
2009-07-16
Weltrend, founded in Hsin-Chu Science-Based Industrial Park July 1989, July 16 celebrated its 20th anniversary. Weltrend is an established local IC design house, and it is also a vanguard in mixed-signal IC design, with several products leading the industry first to the market, and winning NO.1 in the worldwide market share; overall it is a well-managed company, healthy and stable. |
Chairman Sam Lin, the founder as well, said: the achievements of 20-year continuous hard working can be depicted as follows: |
1. Finance: Weltrend lost money only for the first two years when just founded, after that, has never been in the red any more. Weltrend has always handled the financial matters in a relative conservative way, and has hardly borrowed any money from banks over the 20 years; self-owned capital ratio has always kept as high as 90% or over. Sam added, during the 20 years, Weltrend has raised capital (in cash) from shareholders for totally around 680 million, and the total cash dividends distributed to shareholders are around 680 million as well; i.e. the cash-investments of the original shareholders are almost paid back. In 20 years, company profits total 3,400 million, and besides the said cash dividends, share dividends total 2,200 million; the shares number of the original shareholders has grown around 11-fold, and if counted by market price at NTD 20 per share, the shares value has grown 22-fold, and it is 33-fold, if at NTD 30 per share. This is a performance of “worse off than some, but better off than many.” In addition, Weltrend won the No.10 of “the Best Return On Investment, for the previous one year & during the last 10 years” among all the listed companies in Taiwan, which was graded and announced by Wealth Magazine July 2007; i.e. Weltrend hasn’t disappointed the investors, whether it is in short-term or long term investment. |
2. Products: Weltrend is a company aggressive in innovation, not only the first domestic IC design house entering the mixed-signal IC design area, but also leading the industry in first marketing several products, and with the worldwide No.1 share. |
(1) Years around 1991: developing a series of display control ASICs for the earlier makers of Taiwan exercise equipments. |
(2) Years around 1991: WT808X, musical Christmas light control IC. |
(3) Middle of 1990s : WT804X, Analog-controlled CRT monitor control IC. |
(4) Early of 1990s : WT61XX, MCU-controlled CRT monitor control IC. |
(5) 2004 to now : WT75XX, switching power supplier power management IC. |
(6) 2007 to now : WT61PX, LCD TV power management & HDMI-CEC control IC. |
In above products, in their respective areas of application, Weltrend has the leading position in terms of market share, and has earned the trust of the world-class companies, such as: Samsung, LG, Philips, Delta, Lite-on, Chiconi, Compal, AcBel, FSP, Quisda (BenQ), Wistron, TPV, Taidoc, Jesstech, etc. |
3. Society responsibility: Sam said, the vision of Weltrend is “To build up a well-managed company with good profitability, decisive influence on certain product lines, joy of working, and sense of humanity.” This vision clearly shows the caring for our society, which the company’s management cherishes all the time. Over the 20 years, not only does Weltrend save every penny of the shareholders by making good use of the money in business operation, but it also does all it can to support some meaningful activities. For example, the first to respond to sponsor the choir of aboriginal school children of Hsin Kwang Elementary School, Hsin-Chu County to go on the European tour; supporting the charitable activity of the famous singer, professor Chien Wen-hsiu; sponsoring the producing of charitable DVD, classical music appreciation, of professor Chu-Wey Liu; supporting the popularizing of Taiwanese folk music of the music master, Min Chang Chen; 921 earthquake donation, and other educational, academic donations, etc. The Honorary Chairman of Weltrend, Quin Tsung Tsai, often receives and takes are of Japanese high school students visiting Taiwan over the 20 years, not at all for his own fame or fortune; he often receives and entertains Japanese media and people in academic, cultural circles, out of his own pocket, an excellent form of people-to-people diplomacy. Sam Lin is an active member of Association of Industries in Science Parks, Association of NCTU Alumni, Enterprise Professional Manager Association, etc.; he often offers professional suggestions to the government to better some related policies and to fulfill his obligations of a citizen. |
After having gone through the 20 years, Weltrend will have to face another new requirements of growth and challenge. President and CEO Jeff Tsai said, in recent years, the whole electronic industry has shifted from the past IT-centered products to multiple developments, the hot areas including communication network, cell-phone, audio/video multimedia, storage memory device, power, etc. Weltrend makes good use of its expertise accumulated from many years’ experience, and focuses on video, analog, consumer electronics products, etc. In a broad definition, Weltrend products can be categorized as power saving & carbon reducing, health care, power safety, scientific life, etc., which are also the most hot categories in the market; i.e. Weltrend products are almost fully in line with the current worldwide development trend. Summary as follows: |
(1).Power saving & carbon reducing: Power saving control ICs used in LCD TV, DVD, STB, etc., A/V products. LED driver ICs used in LED backlight, LED lighting. |
(2).Health care: Chip set for exercise equipment display panel control. Dedicated MCUs for ear thermometer, heart detector, blood pressure monitor, glucose monitor, etc. |
(3).Power safety: SPS(switching power supplier) power safety management IC for PC, game console, LCD TV, etc. |
(4).Scientific life: Including touch panel control IC, digital photo frame IC, PC key board, game console peripheral control IC, home appliance control IC, etc. |