Message From K.S. LU, The President and CEO, Leadtek Research Inc.

From the day it went into business seventeen years ago with a corporate philosophy based on ongoing research and innovation, Leadtek has been steadily carving out its own identity and reputation as a designer and manufacturer of superlative high-tech products that include graphics cards, multimedia solutions, and motherboards. And from our quality based R & D originated our famous WinFast brand of these products ranging from entry level to hi-end workstation and multimedia applications.

Over and over again bench tests and reviews from the international IT media have testified to the superiority of our Leadtek Products.Not surprisingly everyone from suppliers to customers are eager to form an alliance with Leadtek and to make WinFast their brand of choice. The world now recognizes that creative technology is synonymous with Leadtek.

It is reflected in the fact that during the past few years we've vastly extended our product range from 3D Graphics, Multimedia, Motherboard to Video Conference, Video Surveillance, GPS Navigation, Wireless Communication and Linux 0.5. Leadtek was the first company in Taiwan to lunch a video phone and professional desktop video conferencing system, and the first again to design and manufacture a GPS system; and with the new yet sophisticated technologies overwhelmed the European market.

At Leadtek we have a vision to simplify and integrate and impart a human touch to a range of technologies to produce products that match the lifestyle and needs of the modern generation. Home gaming and entertainment, digital recording, video conferencing, home networking and car navigation-these are all areas in which Leadtek's engineers have pooled their professional skills and resources to offer a Total Solution for a variety of lifestyle applications.

Intensive research and quality have won us the respect and trust of distributors and end users alike. So too has our international marketing strategy. With our Taipei headquarters at the center of a distribution network extending across the Asia Pacific Area, Europe and the United States, we have set up within the last five years area offices in both the United States (1994) and Europe (2000). These area offices are dedicated to the promotion of the Leadtek product range and brand identity through a broad spectrum of marketing and media channels.

Needless to say the economic integration of the EC has expanded and accelerated our own marketing channels in most countries of the community. The opening of the European area office was naturally the next step especially when Leadtek's unshakable status in Germany, UK and France has long been established.

In this way we're able to market our expertise in integrated technologies of graphics cards, communication products, motherboards, and multimedia solutions to the widest cross section of a demanding and diverted international clientele.

As the new Millennium dawns our first priority is to create and foster our image as a total solutions provider, to stimulate brand name and intellectual property rights and to maintain our pole position in the research and development of competitive hi-tech products.

We might have seen fourteen years of progress and award winning products. But this still isn't good enough. As technology advances we want to be even better yet persisting in our effort to be the best and to manufacture the best.

Invention is our watchword as we forge ahead in all these new directions, putting the best of our technology initiative and ingenuity into new professional and affordable hi-tech products and total solutions for a variety of lifestyle applications.

Here at Leadtek we have drawn the blue print of human life for a new generation of users. And we will go on dreaming and turning our dreams into reality.