Vimicro, a leading multimedia IC designer, recently announced the appointment of four new members of the Board of Directors - Donald L. Lucas, Theodore Van Duzer, Robert Chen, and Vince Feng.

"This is an exciting time for Vimicro as we strengthened our team with prestigious experts in various fields. We believe with their related industry expertise, these accomplished individuals will definitely add significant value to our company in the near future. "

The new board members contribute varied professional backgrounds.

Donald L. Lucas currently serves as a board member of 51job, Inc., Cadence Design Systems, Inc., Macromedia, Inc., Oracle Corporation and PDF Solutions, Inc. He also serves as directors for several privately held companies. Mr. Lucas is the chairman of the board of directors of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy and Research and a trustee of the University of Santa Clara. In 1960, Mr. Lucas began a seven-year participation, including acting as both a general partner and a limited partner with Draper, Gaither & Anderson, the first venture capital firm organized on the West Coast in the United States. Since 1967, Mr. Lucas has been actively engaged in various venture capital activities. Mr. Lucas received his B.A. degree from Stanford University and his M.B.A. degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. has served as a member of our board of directors since July 2004.

Dr. Theodore Van Duzer is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley. He is also a member of U.S. Academy of Engineering and an IEEE Life Fellow. Dr. Van Duzer is the founding editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity. He is also the co-author of two textbooks, "Principles of Superconductive Devices and Circuits" and "Fields and Waves in Communication Electronics" and has published widely in the research literature on superconductor electronics. Dr. Van Duzer received his Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1960 and has served as a member of its faculty since 1961.

Robert Chen founded MPS, a fabless semiconductor company focused on power management chips, in 1997. In 1990, Mr. Chen founded OPTI in Silicon Valley, which was a fabless semiconductor company focused on PC motherboard chipset design and was listed on NASDAQ in 1993. In 1985, Mr. Chen founded TMC in Taiwan, a PC motherboard manufacturer which was later acquired by a German listed company. As a venture capitalist, Mr. Chen has invested in more than 20 companies since 1990 and was a partner of Fortune Investment in Taiwan from 1996 to 2000. Mr. Chen received his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.

Vince Feng is a partner at General Atlantic Partners, LLC, a worldwide private equity firm, where he has worked since 1998. Mr. Feng established General Atlantic's Hong Kong office in 1999 and has been leading General Atlantic's east Asia investment initiatives with a focus on the embedded, consumer and business service sectors. Mr. Feng currently serves as a director of Data Systems Consulting and an observer on the board of Digital China. Prior to joining General Atlantic, Mr. Feng worked as an analyst with Goldman Sachs in Asia focusing on mergers and acquisitions and principal investment. Mr. Feng holds a B.A. with high honors in Social Studies from Harvard University, and an M.B.A. degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.