Nicky Lu

Dr. Lu holds a BSEE from National Taiwan University (now endowed as Distinguished Research Chair Professor and Outstanding Alumnus) and an MSEE and Ph.D. from Stanford University. He joined IBM Research Headquarters and, after seven years, was promoted to Program Manager in the CEO's office. His numerous semiconductor and integrated circuit (IC) inventions led IBM to achieve the world’s first 8-inch wafer fab and 4Mb DRAM. 

In 1991, he founded Etron Technology, Inc., and collaborated with the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) to pioneer Taiwan’s first self-developed advanced sub-micron IC technology, which realized Taiwan’s first 8-inch wafer fab and mass production of DRAM, Logic, and SRAM within three years, setting a world record. In 2000, he pioneered Known-Good-Die (KGD) silicon technology and products, thus stimulating and leading the “IC Heterogeneous Integration (HI) Methodology and Era,” which complements IC Moore’s Law growth. Both contributions have established an essential technology basis for nurturing the emerging AI era. Dr. Lu has obtained 160 global patents, including 60 patents granted in the USA. 

In his dedicated career to the IC and semiconductor industry, Dr. Lu founded several successful IC companies born from technical innovations and has served as Chair, Chief Technology Leader, or Co-Founder. He has been honorably elected as the Chair of TSIA, WSC, GSA, and AIonChip industry associations and as an IEEE Fellow, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).