Wu, Robert 吴锡九

Robert Wu is Chairman and CEO of the US-China Green Energy Council; Co-Chairman and founding president of the Berkeley Chinese Alumni International Association, the Co-Chairman and founding president of the Fudan University Business Education Foundation and a director of The 1990 Institute. Mr. Wu is a veteran of the Computer and Semiconductor Industry in both the U.S. and China. He received his BSEE with highest honors from University of California, Berkeley in 1953 and his MSEE from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1954. He was a project manager in semiconductor development for the Transitron Semiconductor Corporation before returning to China in 1956. In China, Mr. Wu became a member of the Chinese Academy of Science and played an active role in the early development of the Institute of Semiconductors, the Institute of Computing Technology, and the Institute of Microelectronics. He was a technical director in developing China's first transistor, the first transistorized mainframe and its first microcomputer with silicon IC. He was recognized as a founding member of China's computer and semiconductor industry. Mr. Wu returned to US in 1978 and joined HP Labs. He facilitated the establishment of HP China, the first joint venture between the US and China. HP China grew to be one of the most successful joint ventures in China with revenue of more than $1 billion in 1999. Early in 1982, he supported immediate VLSI implementation on RISC architecture and became the project manager of HP's first RISC microprocessor. In 1985, he made the initial proposal of utilizing the vast amount of cost effective manpower resources in China and India, and became the program manager of HP International Contract Programming. Mr. Wu cofounded Silicon Magic Corporation in 1994, where he served as the Director of Human Resources, Planning, and China Business Development until 1999.

吴锡九教授 美中绿色能源促进会理事会主席 吴锡九 ROBERT SHIH-CHIU WU • 1932年生于上海，1949年由沪赴美留学。1953年毕业于美国柏克莱加州大学电子工程系。1954年取得美国麻省理工学院电子工程硕士，其后担任波士顿Transitron Simiconductor Corporation晶体管设计和制造经理，是美国第一批掌握晶体管的研究人员。 • 1956年追随钱学森返国，在中国科学院工作22年。先后担任物理所半导体室器件组组长、固体电子学室主任、微电子所室主任、总工程师等职。参与了中国半导体、微电子等高新科技的开创，完成了我国第一个晶体管的开发、第一次用晶体管研制的大型计算机和第一次用集成电路研制的微机任务。1978年因父母双亡、由国务院副总理、中国科学院院长方毅批准，出国接产，钱三强代表中科院设宴送别、礼送出国。 • 去美国后、在硅谷惠普(HP)研究院从事科研和技术领导工作16年。曾负责国际上第一个RISC微机处理集成电路的研制，得到公司重视。他念念不忘祖国，促进了第一个中美合资中国惠普的建立和发展，并多次率领惠普代表团访华，推动了惠普与中科院的科研合作、以及和电子工业的合资生产。他并和清华大学凌瑞骥教授，发起和组织惠普和中国的计算机软件合作项目，其中很多人成为中国软件发展的骨干力量。 • 1994年，他和友人创建Silicon Magic半导体公司，1999年退休。现任美中绿色能源委员会主席。发起和担任复旦大学硅谷教育基金会共同主席，伯克莱加州大学华人国际协会共同主席。