Hauman Technologies Corp. and Grand Cathay Securities Group, INC. Signs Contract for Over the Counter Guidance Hauman Technologies Corporation, planning to start over the counter sales in 2002, signed a guidance contract with Grand Cathay Securities Group on October 20, 2000.

Founded in 1979, Hauman Technologies Corp. has dedicated itself in computer networking and semi-conductors businesses over the past 20 years. It has introduced to domestic clients advanced technology products from overseas original manufacturers and has provided professional marketing and technological services.

The growth of Hauman Technologies Corp. mirrors the history of development of Taiwan's high-tech industries. Under the principles of "frugality and Honesty," the company's devotion has led to solid accomplishment and has accumulated enough talents, which have created beneficial conditions for cooperation with original manufacturers from foreign countries and with domestic clients.

To implement the management concept of "high-quality customer service," the company started ISO QA system in 1996 and, in the following year, it became the first service enterprise in Taiwan to win ISO 9002 certification in both computer networking and semi-conductors sectors.

The Computer Network Division of Hauman Technologies Corp. serves as agency to marketing LAN/WAN hardware/software products for 3Com, Alteon, Blue Coat (Formerly CacheFlow), Juniper, Marconi and Nortel, providing to its clients with planning, sales, installation, training and system integration services.

Hauman's customers spread all over the business spectrum, such as ChungHwa Telecom, Chinese Petroleum Corp., National Chiao-Tung University, Central Research Institute, First Commercial Bank and TSMC. To meet the challenge of rising NGN (Next Generation Network) technology, the Computer Network Division of Hauman Technologies Corp. will invest heavily in voice/data integration products for more value-added services to its customers.

Hauman Technologies Corporation trained its own technical team in order to better understand the production requirements from wafer plants, design house, packaging and testing companies in Taiwan. The purpose is to source products from original manufacturers, provide technical support and solutions, and help customers boost output and enhance efficiency.

The 20 original manufacturers that Hauman serves as agent come mainly from Europe, the United States, Japan, Singapore and Korea. They manufacture raw materials, equipment, automatic packaging, testing equipment in semi-conductor production, such as wafer probers, cleaning systems, quartz products, sealing machines, cutters, forming machines, machine vision systems, IC testing and inspection systems, handlers and tape and reel machines.

Major customers of Hauman Technologies Corp. include UMC, TSMC, ASE, etc. In view of the rapid advance of semi-conductor manufacturing process, the Semiconductor Division of Hauman Technologies will continue to expand its technical team and strengthen training, to implement technological co-operations with original manufacturers and cross investment, to provide customers with various application solutions and to set up service sites in sync with customers geographical expansion.

Over the years, Hauman Technologies Corp. has grown to become a professional value-added service provider, with service engineers reaching 100, of which over two thirds are business and engineering graduates from electronics, EE and information technology majors. The strong technical force lends confidence to Hauman Technologies Corp to become "Leading ASP for High Tech Industry." All this will continue to create profits for shareholders, pleasant yet challenging working environment for employees and to fulfill the corporate responsibility of "repaying the society."