Stanford Microsystems Inc.

Stanford Microsystems Incorporated (SMI) was an independent semiconductor subcontractor located in Maybunga, Ugong, Pasig, Metro Manila, Philippines. It became the largest assembler of electronic semiconductor devices in Asia prior to its closure in 1985. It is one of the companies that helped propel the Philippines from a mere agricultural country into a newly industrialized country in the early 1970s to the late 1980s.

Stanford Microsystems Inc.

Traded as	PSE: MICRO
ISIN	🆔
Industry	Semiconductor
Fate	Closed in 1985.
Founded 📆	1970
Founder 👔	Cristino C. Concepcion Jr.
Defunct	1985
Area served 🗺️	Worldwide
Members
Number of employees	≈8000
🌐 Website	[ ]
📇 Address	Pasig, Metro Manila, Philippines
📞 telephone

History

Stanford Microsystems was founded in 1970 by Cristino C. Concepcion Jr. and two other engineers educated at Stanford University. He founded the company as a case study done at Harvard's School of Business Administration, regarding the feasibility of assembling components in the Philippines. At its peak, it employed around 8000 people.

During the company's lifetime, a former employee says that Concepcion (aka Mang Ino) threw one of his shoes at a supervisor because of not meeting the required volume of production shipment.

On July 12, 1982, SMI fired a married security guard for having sex with a married female security guard on the job. SMI argued that the security guard violated company rules and should be fired. The labor arbiter found that the security guard did violate company rules but that the company should not have fired him. The National Labor Relations Commission upheld the decision of the labor arbiter. The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the National Labor Relations Commission and found that the security guard should have been fired. This decision resulted in G.R. No. 74187.

A former employee says that the company closed in 1985 due to "greed and dirty politics."

Companies served

• Motorola
• Toshiba
• Sony
• Polaroid
• NEC
• Sprague
• Exar

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