Taipei, Taiwan, April 29, 2005 – System General, the leading provider of power management ICs, today announced that it has started to provide lead-free packaging for many of its products, including its ATX Supervisor & Combo ICs, PWM control ICs, and Power Factor Correction ICs product lines. These lead-free productions comply with the RoHS (Restriction of the use of certain Hazardous Substances) directives from the European Union.

To keep up with the global trend of placing more importance on environment protection, System General’s support of lead-free packaging is ahead of the European Union directive date of July 2006. This achievement will help customers to start the conversion of lead-free production procedures. And System General is committed to offering lead-free solutions for all future product lines.

“System General has been concerned about green issues for a long time. All power IC productions meet environmental requirements in the early design stage.” said Danny An, System General’s senior manager of the IC Quality Assurance Department. “System General is committed to producing more diversified, energy-saving, and efficient “green” products. And System General is willing to take on that social responsibility, so as to provide a better life for us all.”