History

• Installed a FACOM231 mainframe.

• Began manufacturing DIP-10 packages,marking the start of IC package production by the Company.

• The 20th anniversary of the foundation.

• Created the Company's "SD mark" emblem.

• Began manufacturing cerdip leadframes.
• Sent engineers to Fujitsu Ltd. for training in press-mold manufacturing technology.

• Began manufacturing the "DIP-17" IC leadframe.

• Named Takekio Mitsunobu the 4th President and Representative Director.

• Began manufacturing multilayered ceramic packages.

• Established an export department with the start of full-scale export operations.
• Nagano Prefecture Governor, Gonichiro Nishizawa, visits the Plant.

• Affected by the oil shock through to 1975.

• Developed continuous plating equipment.

• Began manufacturing microlamps.

• Established an international sales department.
• Began manufacturing precision contact parts and ceramic surge arrestors.

• The 30th anniversary of the foundation.

• Established SHINKO ELECTRIC AMERICA, INC. in the US state of California.

• Opened the Arai Plant in Arai-City (now Myoko-City), Niigata Prefecture.

• Total number of employees exceeds 1,000.
• Began assembling cerdip ICs.

• Opened the Takaoka Plant in Nakano-City, Nagano Prefecture.

• Began manufacturing ceramic PGA (Pin Grid Array) packages.

• Began manufacturing glass-to-metal seals for laser diodes.

• Total number of employees exceeds 2,000.
• Listed shares on the Second Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
  Increased paid-in capital to 7.128 billion yen.

• Total number of employees exceeds 3,000.