Intel has announced 16 recipients of the Preferred Quality Supplier (PQS) award, which is part of a company program that encourages suppliers to strive for excellence and continuous improvement.
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.
"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."
| Intel: Preferred quality supplier and achievement awards, 2010 | ||
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| Company | Item |
| PQS winners | Applied Materials | Semiconductor manufacturing equipment and support services |
| ASML | Semiconductor lithography equipment | |
| Cabot Microelectronics | CMP slurries | |
| Daewon Semiconductor Packaging Industrial Co. | Handling media | |
| Daifuku | Fab automated material handling systems | |
| Dai Nippon Printing | Advanced photomasks | |
| Fujifilm Electric Materials | Advanced chemistry and equipment for semiconductor device manufacturing | |
| Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Co. | Chemicals for semiconductor device manufacturing | |
| Moses Lake Industries (Tama Chemicals) | Specialized ultra-high purity chemicals | |
| Murata Manufacturing | Multilayer ceramic capacitors, inductors and electromagnetic interference components | |
| Nikon | Lithography scanners and steppers | |
| Rofin-Baasel | Laser mark equipment | |
| Siltronic | Polished and epitaxial silicon wafers | |
| STATS ChipPAC | Full turnkey packaging and test services | |
| Taiyo Yuden | Multilayer ceramic capacitors, inductors and electromagnetic interference components | |
| Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company | Foundry services | |
| Achievement award winners | Advantest | Test equipment |
| Gemtek Technology | wireless products | |
| Grohmann Engineering | Assembly equipment | |
| Hirata | Automation equipment | |
Source: Intel, compiled by Digitimes, April 2011