Lawrence Loh

Over 20+ years of his professional career, Dr. Loh has demonstrated his contributions to the global semiconductor industry not only as a hands-on IC design engineer/architect, but also a seasoned corporate executive with management scope covering RD/engineering and business operations.

Dr. Loh is a Corporate Vice President of MediaTek Inc., responsible for centralized corporate RD and engineering functions including RF, analog/mixed-signal and circuits/hardware engineering and technology development for all MediaTek’s product lines including wireless communication, mobile application processors, wireless connectivity, home entertainment, optical storage and broadband/networking business. He is also serving as President of MediaTek USA, overseeing the company’s global operations in Europe and America.

Before joining MediaTek in 2004, Dr. Loh had contributed to IC design industry in areas of read/write channels for magnetic and optical storage, high-performance analog filters, solid-state fingerprint sensors, highspeed SERDES and wireline PHY transceivers for IT, broadband, networking and mass storage applications. Dr. Loh started his first circuit design position at IMP and later he joined Cirrus Logic, where his last position was Director of Analog IC Engineering. In 1998, Dr. Loh founded Silicon Bridge Inc., where he successfully led a number of analog/mixed-signal IC development projects with major semiconductor companies including MediaTek Inc. and Altera Corporation.

Dr. Loh received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering, with emphasis in analog circuit design, from Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. He served on ISSCC International Technical Program Committee during 2005-1010. Dr. Loh has authored/co-authored dozens of technical papers/patents in areas of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits/systems design and has contributed many panel talks and invited keynote speeches at numerous international conferences and professional communities.