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Product number (P/N): QUALITRON (Company),
Keywords/Tags: QUALITRON (Company)
Date of intro: ~1970, Origin: USA (List),
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Info from SHIH Stan:
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.
Stan Shih recalls in his book 'Me too is not my Style':
I had been at UNITRON for about a year and three months when LIN Vincent, the third son of the LIN family, invested in another company called QUALITRON and invited me to join the start up company. QUALITRON was positioned as a professional manufacturer specializing in calculator manufacturing, with its own brand name and OEM business.
With its own brand name, technology and stable profit, it was one of the most popular companies at that time.
As president of the company, LIN Vincen was responsible for marketing andindustrial design,
while as the vice president, I was responsible for R&D, manufacturing, business development and purchasing.
During the second half of 1976, as QUALITRON’s financial problem became irremediable,
HUANG George, LIN Fred and I, who were in the R&D department, had to leave the company.
Together, we hastily founded MULTITECH with the initial target being the new microprocessor market.

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