Addressing a ceremony marking the association’s inauguration, Teng Kuang-chung, CEO of Lite-On Technology Corp., which is one of the 14 major LED manufacturers forming the association in collaboration with the non-profit Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), said TOSIA will strive to bolster cooperation and exchanges among companies and research bodies involved in the optoelectronics and semiconductor industries.

The association will also aim at upgrading the research and development of new technologies; pushing for the establishment of standards in the optoelectronics and semiconductor industries; sponsoring conferences that are conducive to enhancing the industry’s development; promoting technological cooperation on an international basis; and helping the administration enact relevant policies to help the industry’s progress, Teng said.

Also addressing the ceremony, Chan Wen-hsin, a senior technology adviser to the Ministry of Economic Affairs, said the ministry will continue to help integrate upstream, midstream and downstream companies in this industry as well as governmental resources so as to help propel the development of luminous lighting and optoelectronic display products and applications, eventually making Taiwan a leader in this high-technology sector.

Members of the first TOSIA board include Teng and Chan, as well as Lin Keng-hua, a member of Academia Sinica; Liu Jong-sheng, director of the Institute of Photonics Technologies of National Tsing Hua University; and Chan Yi-jen, deputy director of the ITRI’s Optoelectronics and Systems Laboratories.

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