Intel Honors 20 Companies With Preferred Quality Supplier and Achievement Awards

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Intel Corporation announced 16 recipients of the Preferred Quality Supplier (PQS) award. These companies are distinguished from thousands of suppliers that work with Intel and have exceeded high expectations and tough performance goals while demonstrating an industry-leading commitment to quality.

In addition to the PQS award, Intel celebrates extraordinary supplier accomplishments with the new Achievement Award. This award recognizes supplier achievements across the areas of cost, quality, availability, technology, sustainability and customer satisfaction. Four suppliers are the recipients of this award for performance in 2010.

"The recipients of the 2010 Intel Preferred Quality Supplier award have clearly demonstrated their excellence," said Jacklyn Sturm, vice president of Intel's Technology and Manufacturing Group and general manager of Worldwide Materials. "This high level of performance is displayed not only in the world-class quality and superb technology of their products and services, but also in the new bar they have helped Intel achieve in customer responsiveness and total supply chain sustainable business practices."

"Intel is delighted to recognize our Preferred Quality Suppliers and their exceptional performance over the past year," said Robert Bruck, vice president of Intel's Technology and Manufacturing Group and general manager of Technology Manufacturing Engineering. "These suppliers have distinguished themselves as market leaders and have made a substantial contribution to Intel's technology, affordability and sustainability leadership."

The PQS award is part of Intel's Supplier Continuous Quality Improvement (SCQI) program that encourages suppliers to innovate and continually improve. To qualify for PQS status, suppliers must score 80 percent on a report card that assesses performance and ability to meet cost, quality, availability, delivery, technology and environmental, social and governance goals. Suppliers must also achieve 80 percent or greater on a challenging improvement plan and demonstrate solid quality and business systems. Additional information about the SCQI program is available at www.intel.com/go/quality.

The PQS winners provide Intel with the following products and services:

    --  Applied Materials Inc. supplies semiconductor manufacturing equipment
        and support services.
    --  ASML supplies semiconductor lithography equipment.
    --  Cabot Microelectronics Corporation supplies CMP slurries.
    --  Daewon Semiconductor Packaging Industrial Company Ltd. supplies handling
        media.
    --  DAIFUKU supplies Fab automated material handling systems.
    --  Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. supplies advanced photomasks.
    --  FUJIFILM Electronic Materials supplies advanced chemistry and equipment
        for semiconductor device manufacturing.
    --  Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company Inc. supplies chemicals for
        semiconductor device manufacturing.
    --  Moses Lake Industries (Tama Chemicals) supplies specialized ultra-high
        purity chemicals.
    --  Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. supplies multilayer ceramic capacitors,
        inductors and electromagnetic interference components.
    --  Nikon Corporation supplies lithography scanners and steppers.
    --  Rofin-Baasel supplies laser mark equipment.
    --  Siltronic supplies polished and epitaxial silicon wafers.
    --  STATS ChipPAC Ltd. supplies full turnkey packaging and test services.
    --  Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd. supplies multilayer ceramic capacitors, inductors
        and electromagnetic interference components.
    --  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. supplies foundry
        services.

The Achievement Award winners are the following:

    --  Advantest Corporation, test equipment, awarded for velocity and
        availability.
    --  Gemtek Technology Co., Ltd., wireless products, awarded for customer
        satisfaction.
    --  Grohmann Engineering, assembly equipment, awarded for affordability.
    --  Hirata Corporation, automation equipment, awarded for breakthrough
        technology.

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    Source: Intel Corporation

Released Apr 19, 2011 • 11:00 AM EDT