Chenming C. Hu, Ph.D. has been a member of our Board since November 2011. Since 1976, Dr. Hu has been a professor in electrical engineering and computer sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has been the TSMC Distinguished Chair Professor Emeritus since 2010. He was the Chief Technology Officer of TSMC, a semiconductor company, from 2001 to 2004. Dr. Hu was the founding chairman of Celestry Design Technologies, which was acquired by Cadence Design Systems in 2002. Dr. Hu previously served as a director of numerous companies, including Inphi Corporation, a semiconductor company, from 2010 to 2021, when it was acquired by Marvell Technology, Inc., a semiconductor company, and ACM Research, Inc., a semiconductor equipment producer, from 2017 to 2025. Dr. Hu is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Taiwan s Academia Sinica, and, in 2016, he received the US National Medal of Technology and Innovation from President Barack Obama. Dr. Hu received his B.S. degree from National Taiwan University and his M.S. degree and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, all in Electrical Engineering. We believe that Dr. Hu possesses specific attributes that qualify him to serve as a member of our Board, including his extensive experience in the microelectronics and semiconductor industries as Chief Technology Officer of TSMC and as a board member of a number of technology companies, as well as his experience in academia as a professor of microelectronics, which gives him in-depth knowledge of technology trends and developments.