March 16, 2012 – BusinessWire — Dongbu HiTek named Dr. Chang-Sik Choi, former EVP of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., as its president and CEO and Chan-Hee Lee, former EVP of MagnaChip Semiconductor Corporation, as president in charge of Dongbu HiTek’s foundry business.
Dongbu HiTek is a specialty semiconductor foundry with analog CMOS and specialized BCDMOS processing technologies.
Dr. Choi spent 29 years with Samsung Electronics, with positions as Foundry Center Chief of System LSI Division; Manufacturing Center Chief; Team Leader of Display Driver IC Business; ASIC Development Team Leader, among others. He has a Ph.D in Electronic Engineering from North Carolina University and Master and Bachelor degrees in Material Engineering from Seoul National University.
Lee served 5 years at MagnaChip, analog and mixed-signal chip maker, as GM of the Foundry Business and GM of the DDI/CIS Business. He also has worked as GM of Hynix Semiconductor’s Foundry Business and in LG Semiconductor. He holds a Bachelor of Electronic Engineering Degree from Korea’s Kyungpook National University.
Dongbu HiTek Co., Ltd. specializes in analog and mixed-signal processing technologies, manufacturing Analog, BCDMOS, High Voltage CMOS, CMOS RF, CMOS Image Sensor (CIS), Display Driver IC (DDI), and NOR Flash technologies. Dongbu HiTek publicly trades its stock under 000990 on the Korea Stock Exchange. For more information, visit www.dongbuhitek.com.