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Dr. Chen-Ho Wu (吳振和博士)

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Dr. Chen-Ho Wu (吳振和博士)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Dr. Chen-Ho Wu
  • Chinese: 吳振和博士
  • Era: 1940
  • Geography: 台灣 台南 白河
  • Core roles: engineer, entrepreneur, scientist
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Education

  • Taiwan National Univ. — 1964 — B.S. 電機系
  • New Mexico State Univ. — 1967 — M.S. 物理學
  • Stanford University — 1973 — Ph.D. 半導體電子材料學

Employment

  • Hewlett-Packard — 1973-78 — 1979-84 — Researcher
  • TRW — 1978-79 — Researcher
  • Compound Semiconductors, Inc — 1984-88 — Founder
  • Leotek Electronics Co. — 1993 — Founder

Family

No filled family fields on the TAH profile.

Role in the Community

  • Co-founder of the Taiwanese American Center of Northern California (TACNC): named among the twelve preparation-committee organizers (with 陳德輝, 張信行, 邱俊邦, 翁嘉盛, 石清正, 施天墩, 陳光博, 李華林, 張祿生 and others) recruited to stand up the first Bay Area 台灣會館, opened May 2003 in Fremont ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys24-eng|Our Journeys #24 — TACNC founding memoir (EN)]]); founder 高淑貞’s account names him among the like-minded friends — those “who had contributed money and effort all year round” — she convened onto the preparation committee after announcing the Center at the Federation’s 30th-anniversary celebration; the Chinese account lists 吳振和 among the directors who joined from 2008 onward and “gave money and labor without seeking return” ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys53|Our Journeys #53 — 台灣會館 memoir]]).
  • The founding memoir’s English account names him among the board members who “gradually joined us over the years” after TACNC’s first Fremont building opened in 2003 — listed with 林金塘, 吳業明, Henry Wu, 李信宏 and others as giving “their money and time without expecting any rewards” ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys53-eng|Our Journeys #53 — TACNC memoir (EN)]]). HOLD: conflict on when 吳振和 joined the board — the Chinese account frames post-2008 directors, the English memoir says “gradually over the years” without a date.
  • Entrepreneurial record in Silicon Valley: his company 光林電子 (Leotek Electronics) began manufacturing LED traffic lights in 1998 and reached ~20% market share, ranked third, per the Silicon Valley Taiwanese entrepreneurs chapter ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys19|Our Journeys #19]]).
  • A Who’s Who record of him is filed in the story corpus ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-chen-ho-wu|TAH #44 — Chen-Ho Wu 吳振和, 2014-10-04]], band B, bibliographic record only; subject-tagged to this page).
  • His encyclopedia entries sit in the work corpus: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/72-dr-chen-ho-wu|TAH #72 — Dr. Chen-Ho Wu 吳振和博士]] and the 2017 profile 「LED紅綠燈的傳奇人物」 on his 光林電子/LEOTEK LED street-lighting enterprise ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ff330|TAH #330, 2017-07-28]]) — consistent with the Leotek founding row in his Employment table.
  • His own life sketch is preserved in the TAH collection ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories82|TAH #82 — 吳振和人生簡述, 2014]]), expanded as 「吳振和博士的人生歷程」 in 2015-07 ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories304|TAH #304, 2015-07]]), with a 2008/09 interview recorded by 國史馆 ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/publications761|TAH #761 — 吳振和訪談錄, 國史館 2008/09]]).
  • The Chinese founding memoir names him among the 十三位 friends 高淑貞 convened — 陳德輝、石清正、陳光博、施天墩、高淑貞、林典謨、張祿生、李華林、翁嘉盛、邱俊邦、邱光一、吳振和、張信行 — onto the 台灣會館籌備委員會 after she announced at the 聯合會卅周年慶 that a 北加州台灣會館 would open within three months; the drive began with each committeer donating $2,500 toward a two-year lease ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys24|Our Journeys #24 — 台灣會館 founding memoir (TC)]]).

Sources

複核（deepen-x slice 09240500-1, 2026-09-25）：ZH+EN 再 grep works+articles 命中集與上文完全相同（#53 EN/TC、#24 EN/TC、#19、mystories82/304、publications761、whos-chen-ho-wu、#72、ff330、index）— SKIP-with-reason：語料飽和，唯一 HOLD（董事會加入年份）未解。

再核（deepen-x slice 10081300-11, 2026-10-10）：ZH+EN grep（吳振和 / Chen-Ho Wu）遍 hit works+articles+sources+events+topics，命中集與 09-25 完全相同，無新語料可吸收；唯一未解 HOLD（董事會加入年份：TC 文 fram post-2008 vs EN memo「gradually over the years」）維持原狀，不做 auto-merge。

複核（deepen-x slice 10100900-22, 2026-10-11）：ZH+EN grep 遍 hit 五個語料目錄，命中集與 09-25／10-10 完全相同。唯一新命中為 articles/taiwanjustice-net 一篇 2025 原民語基金會報導，經比對屬偽命中（「傳承、復振和發展」之「振和」為復振＋和連讀，非人名），不吸收。維持 SKIP-with-reason：語料飽和；唯一 HOLD（董事會加入年份）未解，不做 auto-merge。

複核（deepen-x slice 10110600-23, 2026-10-12）：ZH+EN grep（吳振和 / Chen-Ho Wu / 振和 / Leotek / 光林）遍 hit 五個語料目錄，命中集與 09-25／10-10／10-11 完全相同。兩筆偽命中複核確認不吸收：2025 原民語報導之「振和」連讀偽命中（前輪已標），2024 taiwanjustice 藝術報導之「時光林」為畫家姓名、非光林電子/Leotek。維持 SKIP-with-reason：語料飽和；唯一 HOLD（董事會加入年份：TC 文 post-2008 vs EN memo「gradually over the years」）未解，不做 auto-merge。

複核（deepen-x slice 10120900-3, 2026-10-13）：ZH+EN grep（吳振和 / Chen-Ho Wu / Leotek / 光林電子）遍 hit works+articles+sources+events+topics，命中集與 09-25／10-10／10-11／10-12 完全相同（13 檔：#53 EN/TC、#24 EN/TC、#19、mystories82/304、publications761、whos-chen-ho-wu、#72、ff330、index、sources）。維持 SKIP-with-reason：語料飽和；唯一 HOLD（董事會加入年份：TC 文 post-2008 vs EN memo「gradually over the years」）未解，不做 auto-merge。

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