Hon Hai Research Institute

The establishment of the Hon Hai Research Institute is an important step in the Group’s development strategy as it moves one step closer to its “Foxconn 3.0” transformation.

The institute has five research centers. Each center has an average of 40 high technology R&D professionals, all of whom are focused on the research and development of new technologies, the strengthening of Foxconn’s technology and product innovation pipeline, efforts to support the Group’s transformation from "brawn" to "brains", and the enhancement of the competitiveness of Foxconn’s "3+3" strategy.

Organizational Structure

Overview

Artificial Intelligence Research Center

By utilizing the Group's high-speed computing centers and its edge computing capabilities, the AI Research Center aims to carry out research and development of innovative technologies that will help address people’s needs and improve their quality of life. It will also meet the needs of industrial development.
Semiconductor Research Center

The Semiconductor Research Center aims to cultivate talent in the manufacturing and design-related industries, and to develop and design forward-looking nanoelectronic components. By improving existing semiconductor technologies, it will also drive the intelligence revolution in related industries such as artificial intelligence and next-generation communications.
Next-generation Communications Research Center

The Next-generation Communications Research Center is focused on the development of core technologies for 5G and next-generation networks. It also explores ways to apply the research, combined with insights from intelligence and semiconductor technologies, to three major industries, i.e. electric vehicles, digital health, and robotics, with the end goal of setting new standards within the industries.

Information Security Research Center

The Information Security Research Center aims to cultivate talents to meet the needs of industrial development, as well as innovate and develop new cross-domain applications that could be used in the industry. The aim of the centre is to create a digital technology environment that is universally recognized.
Quantum Computing Research Center

The Quantum Computing Research Center aims to cultivate talents in the industry, and to actively explore prospects in quantum computing application areas. The goal of the centre is to lead the industry as it continues to prepare for the arrival of a new industrial era in quantum technologies that combines quantum technology and information technology.
Trapped-Ion Quantum Computing Laboratory

Developing central technologies with trapped ions and enabling new-generation quantum technology, Trapped-Ion Quantum Computing Laboratory will build a quantum computer with unrivaled computation power through the combination of cross-disciplinary expertise.

Advisory Committee

Dr. Mau-Chung Chang

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Dr. Ching-Ray Chang

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Dr. Kai-Fu Lee

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Prof. Tzong-Chen Wu

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Dr. Mau-Chung Chang

Dr. Mau-Chung Chang is a former President of National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, and is currently Chairman and a Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has made outstanding contributions to the research and development, and is a leading expert in the field of basic research and practical application of high-speed semiconductor devices and integrated circuits for radio frequency and mixed-signal communication radio, radar, and imaging system applications.

Research Interests

In 1990, Dr. Chang was the principal investigator at the Rockwell Science Center High Speed Electronics Laboratory with a research team which successfully developed and transferred AlGaAs/GaAs heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) and BiFET (Planar HBT/MESFET) integrated circuits technologies from the research laboratory to the production line. The production of HBT and BiFET circuits has grown into a multibillion-dollar business worldwide. More than 10 billion mobile phone signal transmitters have used the gallium arsenide power amplifier invented by Dr. Chang.

Education

PhD in Electronic Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Master of Materials Science, National Tsinghua University, Taiwan
Bachelor of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Experience

Current position: Distinguished Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, USA; Chairman and Professor, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

President, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan (2015 - 2019)
Distinguished Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, USA (2009)
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, USA (1997 - 2008)
Deputy Director, Rockwell International Science Center High Speed Electronics Laboratory, USA (1988 - 1996)
Senior Researcher and Research Manager, Rockwell International Science Center High Speed Electronics Laboratory, USA (1983 -1988)
Senior Researcher, TRW, Redondo Beach, CA, USA (1982 - 1983)