First International Computer

First International Computer (also known as FIC), is a Taiwanese design solution provider and system integrator for automotive electronics and smart building automation, founded in 1979 by Dr. Ming-J Chien & Mrs. Charlene Wong, in Taiwan Taipei. Under the business transformation led by FICG (TPE: 3701) Chairman Mr. Leo Chien in 2007, FIC has grown year by year in the sales of electronic product design and manufacturing business. In 2021, FIC has developed into a world-class leader in automotive electronic design, smart city AIoT, smart grid, energy management system (EMS), and 5G autonomous driving and AI robotics solutions. FIC used to be a famous computer and component manufacturer in worldwide countries from 1979 to 2010; And in year of 2004, Mr. Leo Chien, the son of Dr. Ming, joined the group, and contributed his expertise as COO of FIC in 2008; and in 2011, Mr. Leo Chien began to lead the group towards a new business development, with insight into the foreseeable market demand and analysis, and gradually moved the team towards the direction of automotive electronic design and manufacturing business. Throughout the years, he integrated the group’s relevant technical resources in order to support the automotive electronic design business more comprehensively and became CEO of FIC in 2016. FIC group has a workforce of over 6000 employees from 2 electronic design manufacturing/assembly sites and 3 branch offices in Taiwan, Mainland China and United States. First International Computer, Inc (FIC) provides partners as a one-stop-shopping service as in smart IoT and automotive electronic designing, engineering, system integration, supply chain management and electronic manufacturing services (EMS). FIC has a high reputation in the electronics design and manufacturing industry for over 45 years, now is focusing its core business on automotive electronic design and building automation system control. Affiliated Companies: 3CEMS Group, Ubiqconn Technology and RuggON. In 2004 August, FIC was publicly listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE 3701). For information about First International Computer Inc. and products, please refer to FIC global information network at www.fic.com.tw or contact [email protected]

Charlene Wang and Ming Chien found company as a sales agent for main frame and micro computers. The company begins assembling its first PC computer systems under the Leo brand. U.S. and European subsidiaries are opened and production of the first in-house personal computer design begins. Taiwan-based First International Computer, Inc. (FIC) is one of the world's leading suppliers of motherboards and other computer peripherals, as well as integrated desktop computers, notebook computers, and handheld and tablet personal computers. Motherboards remain one of the company's most important business segments, with shipments of nearly five million motherboards each year. The maturity of that market, however, has led FIC to tap into new markets for growth, such as a new line of graphic cards in 2003. The company's original equipment manufacturer (OEM) operations construct desktop and notebook computers for many of the world's top brands, including Hewlett Packard, Compaq, NEC, Packard Bell, Dell and IBM. The company is one of the top five Taiwanese notebook makers, with shipments expected to top 1.8 million units in 2003. Yet, with the shift in the notebook market to low-priced, low-margin products, FIC has begun repositioning itself as maker of "3C" (Computer, Communication, and Consumer Electronics) products, specifically with a push into the growing handheld and tablet personal computer (PC) markets, and a complementary investment into wireless technology. FIC, which posted sales of $2.7 billion in 2002, has manufacturing and assembly operations in Taiwan, mainland China, the United States, Mexico, the Czech Republic, and the Netherlands. The company is listed on the Taiwanese Stock Exchange and is linked to Taiwan's industrial powerhouse Formosa Plastics Group through cofounder Charlene Wang. Her husband, Ming Chien, remains company chairman, seconded by CEO Horace Tsiang. Founded in 1980 by the husband and wife team of Ming Chien and Charlene Wang, First International Computer brought together two opposite sides of Taiwan's political and economic history. Chien's father, Ji Chien, had been a poor farmer in pre-war Taiwan who had become a political figure protesting the industrialization policies of the new Nationalist government that had fled to Taiwan from the communist mainland. Ji Chien was thrown in jail and later executed. Ming Chien, who never knew his father, went on to study at the University of California at Berkeley, ultimately receiving a Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1975 and marrying classmate and fellow Taiwanese Charlene Wang. Wang's background could not have been more different from Chien's. Wang was the daughter of Wang Yung-ching, chairman of the Formosa group, who became the country's leading industrialist and one of the wealthiest people in the world--in part through support from the Nationalist government, which held Wang, who had been born into poverty himself, as an example of Taiwanese industrial and economic prowess. Yet the famously frugal Wang insisted that his children live frugally as well. As daughter Cher Wang, who became chairman of dominant Taiwanese semiconductor company VIA Technologies, told Business Week: "My father felt we should know the value of everyday life and how to live independently." Like many Taiwanese in the Cold War era, Charlene came to the United States to study in the 1970s, earning a master's degree in statistics in 1973. Following their marriage, Wang and Chien went to work for Rockwell International and Bell Labs, respectively, in order to gain first-hand international work experience before returning to Taiwan in the late 1970s. Taiwan by then had started to make its historic transition from an economy based on low-cost manufacturing and subsistence farming into one of the world's most vibrant high technology-driven economies. Wang and Chien were to play an important part in that transition. In 1980, the couple put up their savings to establish their own busines