In 1996, then-Vice-Minister of Economic Affairs Yang Shih-chien signed a memorandum on technical cooperation between the ROC and the US telecommunications research company Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies). One of the technologies identified for transfer was new-generation polymer lithium-ion rechargeable battery technology for mobile phone and notebook computer applications.
一九九六年時任經濟部次長的楊世緘，曾經代表我國與美國貝爾通訊研究公司簽署技術合作備忘錄，鎖定的移轉技術之一便是新一代的可充電式二次鋰電池，適用於行動電話與筆記型電腦。