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MR.
HUMPHREY LEUNG WINS
THE OUTSTANDING POLYU ALUMNI AWARD 2003
An
Honor for His Remarkable Professional Achievements and
Significant Contributions to His Alma Mater and the
Community
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Hong
Kong, China ¡V Mar 27, 2003 - The winners of
Outstanding PolyU Alumni Award 2003 (OPAA) was
officially announced today at a ceremony. This is our honor that Mr. Humphrey Leung, President and
Managing Director of Solomon Systech Limited,
proposed by Prof. Y.S. Lee, Chair Professor of the
Electronic Engineering, Department of Electronic and
Information Engineering, the Hong Kong Polytechnic
University, wins this award.
The award was officiated by the Guest of
Honour Dr. Henry Tang Ying-yen, Secretary for
Commerce, Industry and Technology.
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Launched
in 1996, the biennial "Outstanding PolyU Alumni
Award" Selection is jointly organized by the Hong
Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and the Federation
of PolyU Alumni Associations (FHKPUAA) for the fourth time.
It aims to pay tribute to the distinguished graduates of
PolyU and its forerunners for their illustrious professional
accomplishments and significant contributions to the
community. There are five alumni honoured the award this
year. The seven-member Panel of Judges, made up of
government officials and renowned community leaders, is
chaired by Dr. Henry Tang Ying-yen.
Prof.
Y.S. Lee, being the nominator, commented that Mr. Leung had
made great contributions to the Hong Kong electronics
industry. "Through the setting up of a company Mr.
Leung demonstrates that Hong Kong is a suitable place for
the development of high-tech and high value-added industry.
He is a role model for PolyU graduates," said Prof. Y.S.
Lee.
Being
the award winner, Mr. Humphrey Leung made his remark at the
ceremony. "First of all, I have to thank Professor YS
Lee, Professor Joshua Wong and Mr. CD Tam. Not only because
they are my nominator and my referees for this event. All
three of them are also my mentors and my role models in
helping me to build up my career in the industry," said
Mr. Leung. "I feel extremely honored to be a graduate
of PolyU for it has been one of the best HK technical
colleges in providing electronic engineering studies. The
technical knowledge that I learned from PolyU, together with
the training of analytical strength, persistent will-power
and working with people provides me a very solid foundation
for my present work to perform a CEO of a high-tech IC
company that a lot of people still think this industry is
something impossible for the Hong Kong people to do."
Mr. Leung continued, "PolyU has trained and helped a
lot us and the Hong Kong society to create a lot of success
that people think is impossible."
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About
Mr. Humphrey Leung
Mr.
Humphrey Leung was one of the first Hong Kong semiconductors
IC design engineers. He
brought the semiconductors IC design knowledge from Silicon
Valley to Hong Kong in the 70¡¦s and trained up many local
engineers and professionals for IC product development in
Hong Kong. Since
he joined Motorola Semiconductors Asia Pacific Division in
Hong Kong in 1984, he was instrumental in many new product
developments and contributed to making Motorola IC design
center becoming the largest center of its type in Hong Kong.
In addition to IC design he worked with Motorola USA
on high voltage silicon semiconductor process development
and gold-bump manufacturing process both of which were key
breakthrough to make Hong Kong in becoming Center of
Excellence for advanced LCD driver systems.
In
1999, with encouragement from Motorola, he sets up and runs
his own local semiconductors company, Solomon Systech
Limited. He is
currently the President and Managing Director of the
company. Solomon
Systech is a Hong Kong based fabless semiconductor company
focuses to develop semiconductor IC products for global
mobile display market.
Mr. Leung manages his business with clear vision and
strategic insight. He
invents innovative processes, adopts technology-driven
information systems, introduces competitive high value added
products and gains global market acceptance and outstanding
financial performance.
His
achievement is also being recognized through several major
industrial and customer awards granted for the company in
2001 and 2002. In
addition, Mr. Leung has the honor to receive the Young
Industrialist Awards of Hongkong 2001.
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