Vimicro Appoints Acting Chief Financial Officer

BEIJING, Nov. 5, 2010 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- Vimicro International Corporation (Nasdaq: VIMC), a leading multimedia semiconductor and solution provider, today announced the appointment of Jack Guo as Acting Chief Financial Officer. Guo replaces David Tang, who recently resigned from the position due to personal reasons.

Guo has over 15 years of finance and operating experience at global financial services and technology companies. Prior to joining Vimicro, Guo held senior finance and management positions at State Street Corporation and Teradyne, Inc. He also worked as an equity research analyst at Jefferies. Guo received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Science and Technology of China and an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

About Vimicro International Corporation

Vimicro International Corporation is a leading multimedia semiconductor and solution provider that designs, develops and markets mixed-signal semiconductor products and system-level solutions that enable multimedia capabilities in a variety of products for the consumer electronics and communications markets. Vimicro is also expanding business into the surveillance market with system-level solutions and semiconductor products. Vimicro's ADSs, each of which represents four ordinary shares, are currently trading on the NASDAQ Global Market under the ticker symbol "VIMC."