Chiu recalls that there were few Chinese starting businesses then, and capital was hard to find--it took him and his partners six months to raise the US $ 1 million in operating capital they needed for their first year.
邱俊邦說，當時很少華人創業，資金難找，半年後才募到足以支撐第一年運作的一百萬美元。1984 年公司順利上市，他由技術轉為行銷，負責開拓日本市場。由於曾在日本留學，熟悉日本文化，IDT 成為第一家打進日本記憶體市場的美國半導體公司。