AUgust 23, 2011 – Marketwire — Semiconductor packaging and test provider STATS ChipPAC Ltd. (SGX-ST: STATSChP) welcomed Pasquale Pistorio as an advisor to its Board of Directors. He will join the Board, with shareholder approval, after STATSChP’s next annual general meeting.
Pasquale Pistorio developed the Italian microelectronics company the SGS Group into an eventual merger with the French Thomson Semiconducteurs to eventually form STMicroelectronics (NYSE:STM), where he served as president and CEO. On his foundation’s website, Pistorio is said to have "championed the cause of Europe’s microelectronics industry." He’s served on Fiat and Chartered Semiconductors Boards and in 2004 chaired the Technology Platform group of a new European initiative called ENIAC (European Nanoelectronics Initiative Advisory Council). Pistorio is a member of the United Nations Information and Communications Task Force. He was recently announced as the recipient of the 2011 IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal, sponsored by the Intel Foundation, for contributions to, and leadership in, the technology, business and environmental development of the global semiconductor and electronics industry.
STATSChP’s announcement supersedes the Company’s SGX-ST announcement number 00040 dated 1 July 2011.
STATS ChipPAC Ltd. provides semiconductor packaging design, assembly, test and distribution services. STATS ChipPAC is listed on the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited ("SGX-ST"). Further information is available at www.statschippac.com.
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