Silicon Motion Technology Corp (慧榮科技), the world’s largest supplier of NAND flash memory controllers, has hired former MediaTek Inc (聯發科) executive Jeffrey Ju (朱尚祖) as its senior vice president of platform and strategy, the company said yesterday.
In his new role, Ju would lead efforts to deepen executive-level platform engagement with top-tier customers in the PC, smartphone, automotive and server markets, Silicon Motion said in a statement.
He would also play a key role in strengthening the firm’s global research and development capabilities, it said.
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Ju would also serve as a member of the Silicon Motion capital committee to contribute to strategic investments and acquisitions, as well as advise the company’s long-term business strategy, product portfolio expansion and artificial intelligence initiatives, it added.
Ju was once considered a front-runner for MediaTek chief executive officer. At MediaTek, he served as executive vice president and cochief operating officer, helping grow the firm’s mobile chipset business to US$4 billion a year and establish it as the world’s No. 2 mobile phone chip vendor, the statement said.
Ju was most recently cofounder and chief strategy officer at China’s ZEKU Technology (哲庫科技), where he built a global team of more than 3,000 engineers and delivered multiple advanced designs, including 6-nanometer and 4-nanometer tape-outs.
He previously served as a partner at Xiaomi Corp’s (小米) Xiaomi Private Equity Fund (小米產業投資).
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