Driving the Future of
Automotive

BOS stands for “Best Of Silicon” and embodies our dedication
to developing the best semiconductor solutions that can power innovation at unseen levels in vehicles.

Our Vision

Leading Mobility Innovation
with Semiconductor Technology

The autonomous and digitalized future of mobility starts with next-generation semiconductor technology.
With our differentiated core technology, BOS will pioneer and accelerate innovation in the automotive sector.
Ultimately, we are committed to providing the highest level of mobility experience, safety and comfort to drivers and riders.

Our Core Values

To turn our vision into reality,
BOS upholds the following core values.

  • Technological Excellence

    Our best-in-class semiconductor technology differentiates us from competitors.

  • Driven Spirit

    Each team member strives to make the biggest impact.

  • Distinguished Creativity

    We constantly reimagine and reinvent better ways for the future.

Our People

  • 01

    Success of a fabless business depends on the ability to organically integrate the overall ecosystem consisting of design, software, IP, fabrication, packaging, testing and reliability processes.

  • 02

    At the heart of this multi-step process is the people involved in each step.
    Thus, leadership team with actual hands-on experience from design to commercialization of technology is critical.

  • 03

    BOS is led by a team of world-leading experts who have successfully carried out Automotive SoC, Mobile SoC and Custom SoC businesses serving the largest global clients.

  • Jaehong Park Chief Executive Officer
    Jaehong Park Chief Executive Officer

    CEO Park is the industry’s top expert who was in charge of the mobile and automotive SoC businesses at Samsung Electronics, where he served as Vice President. He founded BOS with a vision to create a top tier fabless company that can compete at the global stage. During his 23 years at Samsung, he led numerous automotive SoC projects, including the Exynos Mobile SoC, Custom AP SoC and AD SoC, and also managed the cultivation of the overall foundry ecosystem. As the Head of the Automotive SoC Business Team, he successfully conducted the Exynos Auto business serving top global auto clients such as Audi, BMW and Volkswagen. In 2021, he was recognized by the Korean government with the Order of Science and Technology Merit, which is one of the highest honors for an engineer. Prior to joining Samsung, Dr. Park worked at IBM and Motorola where he was responsible for CPU design and EDA software development, respectively.

    - Seoul National University (B.S./Electrical & Computer Engineering)
    - Seoul National University (M.S./Electrical & Computer Engineering)
    - University of Texas at Austin (Ph.D./Electrical Engineering)

  • KyoungMook Lim Chief Technology Officer
    KyoungMook Lim Chief Technology Officer

    CTO Lim is a world leading SoC design expert who has spearheaded Samsung’s mobile SoC design initiatives for over 21 years. At Samsung, he led various successful SoC development projects including MP3 Player, DVD Player, iPod/iPad SoC, iPhone SoC and Exynos SoC, which resulted in him being awarded the Proud Samsung Award three times. In particular, he was in charge of managing the Exynos Auto business from its inception to its successful commercial adoption in the Audi MIB3 and led the development of successive products that won supply contracts from top automotive clients such as Audi, Volkswagen and BMW.

    - Seoul National University (B.S./Physics)
    - KAIST (M.S./Electrical Engineering)
    - KAIST (Ph.D./Electrical Engineering)

  • Yonho Chang Chief Operating Officer
    Yonho Chang Chief Operating Officer

    COO Chang is a well-established serial entrepreneur. After working as a Principal Researcher at SK Telecom, Chang co-founded Mcubeworks in 2001, a mobile multimedia solution and platform company, and as the COO, successfully led the commercialization of the company’s mobile video streaming service and satellite DMB service. He then oversaw Mcubeworks’ acquisition by Core Logic in 2006. In 2010, he founded and served as a CEO of Dreamtobe, a multimedia service platform, and for over a decade, successfully conducted the multimedia business collaborating with NAVER and SK Telecom. In May 2022, he co-founded BOS Semiconductors and serves as the COO.

    - Seoul National University (M.S./Electrical & Computer Engineering)

  • Wook Choi SW Team Leader
    Wook Choi SW Team Leader

    Dr. Choi has a broad and extensive experience in SW development ranging from development of semiconductor system SW to development of cloud-based web platform. As a Principal Engineer at Samsung, he led the development of software used in the Exynos Mobile and Auto SoC. In 2012, he was awarded the Samsung Annual Platinum Award for his development of the world’s first ARM-based Google Chromebook, and in 2015, he was awarded the Samsung Annual Gold Award for his involvement with S.LSI Division’s first Exynos 7580 Smartphone Turnkey SW Stack for the Chinese market. In 2018, he led as a PM the Exynos Auto V9 virtualization SW development project for the Digital Cockpit Integrated IVI System supplied to Audi. He also served as the Chief Product Officer at Testworks, where he led the development of a web platform for training and processing data based on AI software. His work in building an AI-based dataset at Testworks has greatly contributed to the expansion of the infrastructure for AI-based development of data services in Korea.

    - Incheon University (B.S./Computer Science & Engineering)
    - Univ. of Texas (M.S./Computer Science & Engineering)
    - Univ. of Texas (Ph.D.) Computer Science & Engineering)

  • Pham Van Khich RTL Design Manager
    Pham Van Khich RTL Design Manager

    Khich Pham has been practicing IC Design for over 15 years, with an extensive background in RTL Design and Design Verification. Khich also has comprehensive knowledge of synthesis, DFT, and STA. Prior to joining BOS in November 2022, Khich worked as Section Manager at Renesas. For more than a decade, his previous projects have included SIP for Optical Disk Drive and Play Station, IoT MCU, and Automative SoC.

    - Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Education (B.S./ Electrical & Electronic Engineering)

  • Nguyen Hung Quan RTL Design Manager
    Nguyen Hung Quan RTL Design Manager

    Quan Nguyen is a SoC/Logic Design expert with over 15 years of experience in developing numerous different kinds of chips such as MCUs, Automative Ics, and Server SoCs. His previous experience at ICDREC, Renesas, and Ampere has provided him the opportunity to work on a variety of projects, including developing the in-house IPs, safety IPs of BUS for R-Car product, and server SoCs. Quan is one of the founders of the personal website “VLSI Technology” which allows him to share fundamental knowledge with those who aspiring to learn more about semiconductor design.

    - Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (B.S./Electrical & Electronic Engineering)

  • Nguyen Quoc Duy Design Verification Manager
    Nguyen Quoc Duy Design Verification Manager

    As one of the first-generation ASIC engineers following “Đổi Mới” in Vietnam, Duy embodies the spirit of self-reliance and innovation characterizing that era. Through a dedication to independent study, and hands-on experimentation, he mastered the complexities of ASIC Design and DV Methodology.
    Before joining BOS, Duy's self-taught expertise has fueled a 20-year career through Arrive Technologies Vietnam, AMCC, Ampere Computing (following their acquisition of AMCC), and Intel in the roles of ASIC Design Engineer, DV Architecture, and Engineering Manager. His achievement resulted in the successful tapeout of 12 chips in Transport and SoC.

    - Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (B.S./Electronic Engineering)
    - Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (M.S./Applied Mathematics)

  • Namsung Woo Advisor
    Namsung Woo Advisor

    Dr. Namsung Woo is an expert in the field of system semiconductors with extensive experience in research, development, and business management. While working at Samsung Electronics as President and Head of the System LSI (S.LSI) business, he successfully developed and commercialized the AP SOC, a core component of smartphones that he successfully deployed to global top smartphone manufacturers, and contributed significantly to enhancing the SOC capabilities of both Korea and Samsung Electronics . Samsung S.LSI's AP SOC, known as Exynos, continues to evolve and is widely used today. Under Dr. Woo's leadership, Samsung S.LSI developed and commercialized Korea's first mobile image sensor product line, which continues to play a key role in Samsung S.LSI's main products. Furthermore, by developing and commercializing the world's first 14nm FinFET process technology in the logic fabrication process, Samsung Electronics' foundry business was able to take a massive step forward and attract global customers under Dr. Woo. Emphasizing global cooperation, Dr. Woo established strategic relationships with various companies abroad and also increased in-house development capabilities by acquiring foreign startup companies.

    Before joining Samsung Electronics, Dr. Woo played key engineering and business management roles in the field of computing and system semiconductors while working at Bell Labs (AT&T/Lucent Bell Labs.) and Texas Instruments (TI) as well as several startup companies in the United States.

    - Seoul National University (B.S./Electrical & Computer Engineering)
    - KAIST (M.S./Electrical Engineering)
    - University of Maryland, College Park (Ph.D./Computer Science)

  • Michael Frank Advisor
    Michael Frank Advisor

    Michael Frank is the world’s top expert in semiconductor technology who has a rich experience leading the architecture development initiatives in numerous global semiconductor companies. Currently, Michael is leading the architecture team at Arteris IP as VP of Architecture. In the past, he served as the CTO of MagiCore where he directed architecture development for hardware acceleration of parallel runtime systems. At LG Electronics Mobile Research San Jose Lab, he worked as a Roadmap Architect leading the research and development of multi- and many-core platforms for mobile devices. He also worked at Apple where he was responsible for the architecture of Apple’s first internally developed iPhone SoC, the A4. Michael is a Senior Member of the IEEE, Member of ACM and holds more than 60 patents in various areas of computer architecture. He currently serves as a technical advisor for BOS.

    - Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany (M.S./Physics)