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Company news
Reference: FTD0009
Date: April 2007
Future Technology signs distribution agreement with Galaxy Far East Corporation (GFEC) Increases product availability across China and Taiwan
Taipei,11th April. Future Technology Devices International Limited (FTDI) announces the signing of a non-exclusive distribution agreement with Galaxy Far East Corp (GFEC). The agreement, that covers China and Taiwan, is for the complete line up of FTDI’s USB ICs including its intelligent USB Host bridge chips, Vinculum, and range of development modules. FTDI’s products provide a simple route to USB migration of legacy serial interfaces and ease of design for embedded microcontroller applications. Ready to use, royalty-free USB firmware and driver software is included.
“We are extremely pleased to have signed this agreement with GFEC.” says Steve Huang, Asia Pacific Regional Manager, FTDI. He continues, “This announcement builds on our established market position across Europe and the US. GFEC is a perfect partner for FTDI. It offers an experienced, market respected and broad sales coverage complemented by technical support and engineering facilities. With a strong and growing demand across China and Taiwan for our embedded USB connectivity devices we look forward to a successful partnership with GFEC.”
Alex Hsu, Director, Strategic Product Marketing Division, GFEC comments, “Our signing with FTDI confirms our respect for their product line up and market leading position in USB bridge semiconductor devices. The partnership with FTDI is comprehensive and includes training, technical and marketing programmes. We’re pleased to be bringing our competitive strengths of successful product strategy, vertical integration of product ranges and our specialist technical distribution approach to our partnership with FTDI.”
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For further information and reader enquiries:
Steve Haung, Future technology Devices International Limited, 4F, No 18-3, Sec. 6 Mincyuan East Road, Neihu District, Taipei 114, Taiwan
Tel: +886 2 8791 3570 E-mail:
Fax: +886 2 8791 3576 Web: www.ftdichip.com
Fred Dart, Future Technology Devices International Limited, 373 Scotland Street, Glasgow, G5 8QB. Scotland. UK
Tel: +44 (0) 141 429 2777 E-mail:
Fax: +44 (0) 141 429 2758 Web: www.ftdichip.com
Jim Kenney, Future Technology Devices International Ltd. 7235 NW Evergreen Parkway, Suite 600, Hillsboro, Oregon 97124-5803
Tel: 503-547-0988 E-mail:
Fax: 503-547-0987 Web: www.ftdichip.com
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About FTDI
Future Technology Devices International (FTDI) specialise in the design and supply of silicon and software solutions for the Universal Serial Bus (USB). FTDI offer a simple route to USB migration by combining easy to implement IC devices with proven, ready to use, royalty-free USB firmware and driver software. The company’s single and multi-channel USB peripheral devices come with an easy to use UART or FIFO interface. These popular devices can be used in legacy USB to RS232/RS422 converter applications or to quickly interface an MCU, PLD, or FPGA to USB. A wide range of evaluation kits and modules are available to evaluate FTDI’s silicon prior to design-in.
Vinculum is FTDI’s brand name for a range of USB Host / Slave bridge ICs that provide easy implementation of USB host controller functionality within products, and utilise FTDI's innovative know-how in handling USB device classes transparently to significantly reduce development costs and time to market.
FTDI is a fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Glasgow, UK, and has regional offices in Oregon, USA, and Taipei, Taiwan. More information is available at http://www.ftdichip.com
About GFEC
Founded in 1979, Galaxy Far East Corporation (GFEC) is the first A/D converter importer in Taiwan and the first local electronic component distributor introducing Harris and Altera products into Taiwan. Over the past 20 years or so, GFEC has been a successful technology and service oriented distributor with glorious achievements. Now GFEC is a public company in Taiwan listed on TSE (Taipei Stock Exchange).
GFEC has been growing steadily over the years as witnessed by the progress in various aspects, either in product R&D or market expansion, and all have been getting on the right track. GFEC has a well-organized technology application team to provide technical support for customers developing products with its products. GFEC’s customers are coming from all industries and areas, including IT, communication, industrial electronics, and military industry. Today, GFEC is one of the leading distributors of IC products in Taiwan and China. Especially in recent years when high-tech industries are growing rapidly, GFEC has taken the opportunity to accelerate the R&D of PLD technology to facilitate the enterprise to enter the market and to help customers develop their products according to their time to market. Nowadays, almost all high-tech chipsets and ASICs (Intersil, Micrel, Micrel-Synergy, GenesysLogic, Teknovus), logic ICs (AverLogic, Vativ), RF (TM, Tzero), optoelectronic components (MED), GPS solution (Trimble), audio codec (Tenor), PLDs (Altera), etc are distributed by GFEC.
For further information about GFEC or any inquiry, please contact Mr. Shane Lo, Product Marketing Manager, Galaxy Far East Corp., 14F, No. 207-5, Sec. 3, Peihsin Rd., Hsintien City, Taipei County, Taiwan
Tel: +886 (02) 8913-2200 E-mail:
Fax: +886 (02) 8913-2277 Web: www.gfec.com.tw