Intel Honors Advantest Corporation with Preferred Quality
Supplier Award
TOKYO, March 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Advantest Corporation
(NYSE:ATE)(TSE:6857), was named a recipient of Intel Corporation's Preferred
Quality Supplier (PQS) award for outstanding performance in providing products
and services deemed essential to Intel's success. The company was awarded for
its efforts in supplying Intel with testers and handlers for flash, logic,
memory, and mixed signal devices. Advantest Corporation and 25 additional PQS
award winners were honored at a celebration in Burlingame, Calif., on March 15.
"Advantest is honored to be recognized by Intel as a Preferred Quality
Supplier, and takes pride in living up to the stringent reliability and quality
standards that are so highly valued by Intel. We are proud to once again
receive this award and to know that our continued commitment to excellence is
tied to Intel's ongoing success," said Toshio Maruyama, Advantest Corporation,
President and COO.
"The PQS award was given to Advantest for their excellent support equipment for
logic and memory products at Intel. Advantest has continuously improved their
quality and cost over the past few years and continues to drive the industry
with the Open Architecture Initiative. Advantest achieving the PQS award
reaffirms their high standard for quality, technology, and ramp capability,"
said Navid Shahriari - Director, Intel Test Organization.
The PQS awards are part of Intel's Supplier Continuous Improvement (SCQI)
process that encourages suppliers to strive for excellence and continuous
improvement. 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 responsiveness goals. Suppliers must
also manage and deliver on a challenging improvement plan and a quality systems
assessment. Additional information about the SCQI program is available at
http://supplier.intel.com/quality/ .
Intel also recognized PQS award winners on March 15 with an advertisement in
the U.S., Europe and Asian editions of The Wall Street Journal.
About Advantest Corporation Advantest Corporation is the world's largest supplier of automatic test
equipment to the semiconductor industry. A global company, Advantest's SoC,
logic, memory, mixed-signal and RF testers and device handlers are integrated
into the most advanced semiconductor fabrication lines in the world. Founded
in Japan in 1954, Advantest established its North American subsidiary in 1982
and its European subsidiary in 1984. Advantest first began supplying flash
equipment to Intel in 1997. http://www.advantest.com/ NOTE: Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. DATASOURCE: Advantest Corporation CONTACT: Amy Gold of Advantest America, Inc., +1-212-850-6670, or ; or Lisa Gillette-Martin of MCA, +1-650-968-8900, or , for Advantest Web site: http://www.advantest.com/
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