Realtek Semiconductor Corp., located in the Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park ¡ª Taiwan's "Silicon Valley" ¡ª began with a small group of young, devoted engineers in 1987. In nearly two decades, these young founding engineers built Realtek into one of the world's largest and most successful IC design houses. Realtek's efforts to provide the ultimate in pioneering IC technology ¡ª along with its firm commitment to creating unique and innovative designs for a broad range of high-tech applications ¡ª have won the company a worldwide reputation and made possible a favorable and consistent growth rate in the years since its establishment. We attribute this achievement to Realtek's tradition of excellence.