Date of intro: 1969,
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UNITRON was established 1969 by the 'father of Taiwanese semiconductor industry' Prof. SHIH Ming and the young engineer CHIU Andrew.
CHEN describes Unitron as 'Taiwan`s first semiconductor company (and first high-tech enterprise)'.
The main investor was the family LIN, so the eldest son Mr. LIN Pei Yuan became president of UNITRON. When Stan started at Unitron, he was assigned to the R&D division together with his fellow Ciao-Ta graduate Lin Chia Ho (LIN Fred Lin)
Stan developed Taiwan`s first desktop calculator at UNITRON and it came to market 1971-1972
Although the desktop calculator was not a commercial success, in Taiwan`s technological history, it must be considered as a milestone as one of the first truly technically commercial products, produced entirely by a Taiwan company.
He was doing such a great job that UNITRON`s principal investor, the LIN family, began thinking about closing UNITRON down and having Stan start up a new company, named QUALITRON, to concentrate on manufacturing calculators.
He had been at UNITRON for exactly 14 months.