SIMO Silicon Motion Technology Corporation

Silicon Motion Technology Corporation (NasdaqGS: SIMO) (“Silicon Motion,” the “Company” or “we”), a global leader in designing and marketing NAND flash controllers for solid-state storage devices, today, announced the election of Mr. Cain Lin to its board of directors (the “Board”) following the retirement of Mr. Yung-Chien Wang as well as the re-election of Mr. Steve Chen to its board of directors following the annual shareholders meeting on December 14, 2023.

“Yung-Chien Wang has been an invaluable member of our Board for the past 18 years. We thank him for his tireless service to the Company and we extend our best wishes to his future endeavors,” said Wallace Kou, President and CEO of Silicon Motion. “Separately, we are proud to welcome Cain Lin to our Board. His strong background in technology as an engineer and venture capitalist will undoubtedly add value and help guide the Company’s next phase of growth.”

Mr. Cain Lin is the Managing Director of Cedar Capital Inc., and he formerly served on the board of directors of Auras Technology Co., Ltd. Mr. Lin has over 35 years of experience in the semiconductors and venture capital industries in executive-level roles and holds a BA in Electronic Engineering from National Chen Kung University in Taiwan, an MBA from Santa Clara University, and an MS in Electronic Engineering from the University of Florida.

About Silicon Motion:We are the global leader in supplying NAND flash controllers for solid-state storage devices. We supply more SSD controllers than any other company in the world for servers, PCs and other client devices and are the leading merchant supplier of eMMC and UFS embedded storage controllers used in smartphones, IoT devices and other applications. We also supply customized high-performance hyperscale data center and specialized industrial and automotive SSD solutions. Our customers include most of the NAND flash vendors, storage device module makers and leading OEMs. For further information on Silicon Motion, visit us at www.siliconmotion.com.

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Investor Contacts:
Jason Tsai	Selina Hsieh
Vice President of IR & Finance	Investor Relations
jtsai@siliconmotion.com	ir@siliconmotion.com