Taipei, Taiwan, October 4, 2005 – According to Issue 932 of Business Weekly, System General (SG) is ranked 13th in Taiwan's semiconductor industry in terms of its Essential Technology Strength of Patents, and 58th in Taiwan's top 100 patent winners.

 In view of the growing importance of patent intellectual property rights to businesses' global competitiveness, Business Weekly – a well-known Taiwan business magazine – in the cover story of its latest issue titled 15 New Taiwan Kings introduces several Taiwan businesses that have gained a global competitive edge through their patent advantages. In addition, the magazine ranks Taiwan businesses according to their patent capabilities. According to Business Weekly, the ranking is prepared with a reference to the 2004 database of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The 100 Taiwan businesses that won the highest numbers of patents were selected and dubbed The Top 100 Patent Winners. The 100 businesses are ranked further after being divided into 15 industries and one legal person. Essential Patent Index (EPI) and Current Impact Index (CII) are used to demonstrate individual businesses' patent superiority. Essential Technology Strength (ETS) is then used to show the combined scores of quality and quantity.

SG in 2004 obtained 12 US patents, ranked 58th among the top 100 in terms of the number of patents obtained. Nine out of the 12 patents obtained were invention patents. A computation combining the EPI and CII used by Business Weekly gives SG an ETS of 18.61, ranked 13th in the nation's semiconductor industry.

President Tom Yang– a fervent advocate of technical innovations – says, "We are glad that our efforts in innovations and inventions have received recognition. We are not going to be contented. In the field of IC design, patent intellectual property rights are the foundation of survival. For the interests of customers and future development of the company, we will invest more efforts. I believe our ranking will rise by the year if similar rankings are to be prepared in future."

Since the beginning of the year, SG has so far obtained 15 US patents with 9 of them having been given patent numbers and announced, and the remaining 6 waiting to receive the certificate.