Promate Electronics Co. Ltd.

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1986	‧	Promate Electronic Co., Ltd. is established with $6 million NTD in capital

1988	‧ ‧	Secures distribution agreement with UMC Secures distribution agreement with Zilog Inc

1989	‧ ‧	Company becomes a limited corporation Secures distribution agreement with LTC

1991	‧	Receives the “Best Technical Support Award” from Zilog Inc

1992	‧ ‧ ‧	Engages in cash capitalization of $12 million NTD, thereby increasing paid-in capital to $28 million NTD Receives the “Best Technical Support Award” from Zilog Inc. for the 2nd consecutive year Receives the “Outstanding Asia-Pacific Agent” award from LTC

1993	‧ ‧ ‧	Secures distribution agreement with S3 International Limited Receives the “Best Agent of the Year” award from UMC Receives the “Best Agent of the Year” award from LTC for the year

1994	‧ ‧	Receives the “Best Agent of the Year” award from LTC for the 2nd consecutive year. Receives the “Best Agent of the Year” award from UMC for the 2nd consecutive year.

1995	‧ ‧ ‧	Issues additional shares worth $28 million NTD, paid-in capital increases to $56 million NTD Establishes R&D department for embedded MCU programming technologies Receives the “Best Agent of the Year” award from LTC for 3rd consecutive year

1996	‧ ‧ ‧	Secures distribution agreement with Novatek Secures distribution agreement with ITE Secures first OEM monitor supplier (AOC) for Novatek and MCU

1997	‧ ‧ ‧	Engages in cash capitalization at $24 million NTD, paid-in capital increases to $80 million NTD Successfully brings S3 PCI sound products to the Taiwan market, securing technical support and design accounts with two key clients Receives the “Best Supplier” award from SOYO

1998	‧ ‧ ‧ ‧	Engages in capitalization of $16 million NTD, with $4 million NTD in cash, paid-in capital increases to $100 million NTD Secures distribution agreement with AMCC Secures distribution agreement with Rise Technology Company Receives the “Outstanding Global Agent Award” from S3 and becomes S3’s number 3 distributor

1999	‧ ‧ ‧ ‧ ‧ ‧	Receives the “Best Supplier Award “ from Giga-Byte computer, $2 million NTD, with paid-in capital increasing to $150 million NTD Secures distribution agreement with Unipac for TFT-LCD products Enters into a strategic alliance with Unipac for the manufacture and sale of small- size TFT-LCD modules Establishes an LCD module division which includes manufacture, R&D, and sales departments Secures distribution agreement with iCompression, Inc Secures distribution agreement with SirF

2000	‧	Engages in capitalization of $50 million NTD, cash capitalization at $34 million NTD, with paid-in capital increasing to $235 million NTD
	‧	Files for public issuance on June 20, 2000
	‧	Successfully develops 7” 16:9 color TFT-LCD modules
	‧	Successfully develops GPS module
	‧	Secures distribution agreement with Averlogic for LCD Monitor
	‧	Secures distribution agreement with Silicon Wave for Bluetooth products
	‧	Secures distribution agreement with Integrated Telecom Express, Inc. (ITEX) for ADSL chipsets
	‧	Secures distribution agreement with RangeStar Wireless for embedded antenna

2001	‧ ‧ ‧ ‧ ‧ ‧	Secures distribution agreement with ON Semiconductor Secures distribution agreement with Netlogic Microsystem, Inc Secures distribution agreement with Mellanox Technologies, Inc Secures distribution agreement with Protura Wireless Receives “Top 10 Outstanding EC Agent” Award from Micro-Electronics Receives “2001 Channel Elites” Award from Electronic Industry Weekly

2002	‧ ‧ ‧ ‧ ‧	Contracted to represent High Bandwith Access(Taiwan) Inc., product lines. Contracted to represent Micronas GmbH product lines. Stock dividend worth $110 million NT is issued, resulting in total capital of $412 million NT 5/28/2002 Stockholder meeting held, additional 2 directors & 1 supervisor are elected. 9/16/2002 Promate stock officially listed on the OTC.

2003	‧ ‧ ‧	Cash increase capital 463,750,000 NT Stock dividend worth $136 million NT is issued, resulting in total capital of $662 million NT Micro Electronics magazine names Promate as the Fastest Growing Components Agent of 2003

2004	‧ ‧ ‧ ‧ ‧ ‧	The first domestic convertible bonds was issued ($500 million NT) Contracted to represent Genesis product lines. Common wealth magazine ranks Promate No.89 among top 500 companies in the service industry. Business Week Magazine ranks Promate no.88 among top 500 comparies in the service industry. Business Next Magazine ranks Promate as one of the top 10 companies in Taiwan’s IT industry. Stock dividend worth $171 million NT is issued, resulting in total capital of $777 million NT

2005	‧ ‧ ‧ ‧	Stock dividend/ stock option and CB exercise NTD174 million, resulting in total capital of NTD956 million Secures distribution agreement with Pyramis Inc. Secures distribution agreement with Advanced Analogic Technologies Inc. Secures distribution agreement with Leadtrend Technology Corp..

2006	‧ ‧	Promate has been ranked No. 381 in Top 1000 companies in mainland China and Taiwan by Business Weekly As above, Promate has been ranked NO.12 in the IC distribution.

2007	‧ ‧ ‧ ‧ ‧ ‧	The second domestic convertible bonds was issued NTD350 million Capital raising of NTD60,000,000 with per share Stock dividend/ stock option and CB exercise NTD473 million, resulting in total capital of NTD1,682 million Secures distribution agreement with Oxford Semiconductor, Inc. Secures distribution agreement with AUDIENCE, INC. Secures distribution agreement with BridgeLux, Inc.