Intel Honors Applied, 18 Other Suppliers
Intel Corp. honored Applied Materials and 18 other suppliers with its 2011 Intel Preferred Quality Supplier (PQS) award for their commitment to quality and performance excellence.
“These companies distinguish themselves from the thousands of suppliers that work with Intel by exceeding high expectations and tough performance goals,” Intel said.
Jaclyn A. Sturm, vice president of Intel’s Technology and Manufacturing Group and general manager of Global Sourcing and Procurement, noted that 2011 was a year that “tested all aspects of the supply chain, from core challenges of business continuity and affordability to the need for continuous innovation, velocity improvements and growing expectations of sustainability.”
Randhir Thakur, executive vice president and general manager of the Silicon Systems Group at Applied Materials, said Intel and Applied “share a common vision of performance-driven value through collaboration. The Applied Materials team is focused on meeting Intel’s high standards with speed, discipline, and leading-edge technology, while also paying close attention to the sustainability, safety, and cost-effectiveness of our products.”
Sandra Viarengo, Intel’s Fab Capital Equipment Development director, said, “Applied’s superior performance in technology development and ramping factory support across Intel’s broad manufacturing spectrum has generated a second consecutive win and their third overall. We look forward to Applied Materials continued leadership and collaboration supporting future Intel technologies.”
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 at least 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.
Intel said the other winners of the award, and their supply function, include:
Advantest Corporation supplies testers, test handlers, and test interface products.
ASML supplies semiconductor lithography equipment.
Cabot Microelectronic Corporation supplies chemical mechanical polishing slurries.
Daewon Semiconductor Packaging Industrial Co., Ltd. supplies plastic injected molded trays.
DISCO Corporation supplies cutting, grinding, and polishing equipment and services.
DuPont Air Products NanoMaterials L.L.C. supplies chemical mechanical planarization slurries.
Ebara Corporation supplies electroplaters, chemical mechanical polishers and pumps and abatement systems.
Fujifilm Electronic Materials supplies formulated chemicals, developers, precursors, slurries and advanced photoresists.
KLA-Tencor Corporation supplies inspection and metrology capital equipment and services.
Marvell Semiconductor supplies application-specific integrated circuit semiconductor products and engineering resources.
Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc. supplies chemicals for semiconductor device manufacturing.
Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. supplies multi-layer ceramic capacitors.
Rofin-Baasel supplies laser mark equipment.
Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. supplies flip chip substrates.
Siliconware Precision Industries Co., Ltd. supplies semiconductor assembly and test services.
STATS ChipPAC Ltd. supplies full turnkey packaging and test services.
Taiyo Yuden supplies ceramic capacitors, inductors, and filters.
Tosoh Quartz Inc. supplies quartzware for semiconductor wafer processing equipment.
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