AMD Recognizes Toppan Photomasks as 'World Class Supplier'
– Toppan Photomasks, Inc. announced today that it was presented with AMD's annual "World Class Supplier Achievement Award" for excellent performance and outstanding service in 2004. Toppan Photomasks is one of only two companies among AMD's fab material suppliers to receive the chipmaker's annual World Class Supplier Achievement Award in 2004.
Toppan Photomasks was presented with the achievement award in recognition of its consistently high level of support and responsiveness to AMD and Spansion LLC. Toppan Photomasks received AMD's World Class Supplier Achievement Award for 2004 during a ceremony held August 18, 2005 in Dresden, Germany.
"Receiving AMD's World Class Supplier Achievement Award is an honor for Toppan Photomasks and a recognition of our commitment to work closely with our customers and help them bring devices to the marketplace as rapidly as possible," said Jim Northup, chief operating officer of Toppan Photomasks. "We look forward to building on this relationship with AMD, a valued customer and global leader in microprocessors and Flash devices."
Earlier this year, Toppan Photomasks received Freescale Semiconductor Inc.'s Supplier Excellence Award, a Vendor of the Year Award for 2004 from X-FAB Semiconductor Foundries AG, and a "Spotlight Award" from flash memory device maker Spansion LLC for helping Spansion enhance wafer yield.
About Toppan Photomasks
Together with the photomasks business of Toppan Printing, we form the world's premier photomask provider. Utilizing operations within the industry's most advanced and largest network of manufacturing facilities, the company offers a comprehensive range of photomask technologies, and research and development capabilities, to meet the increasingly sophisticated and divergent product-and-service requirements of the global semiconductor industry. Toppan Photomasks, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Toppan Printing. The company is headquartered in Round Rock, Texas, USA. For more information visit www.photomask.com.
About Toppan Printing
Founded in 1900, Toppan Printing has branched into eight diverse business fields including security cards, commercial printing, publications printing, e-business, packaging, decorative materials, electronics and optronics. In the fiscal year ended March 31, 2005, Toppan posted revenues of ¥1,413.6 billion (approximately US$13.5 billion) and ended the year with approximately 32,700 employees. For more information visit www.toppan.co.jp.
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Tom BlakeToppan Photomasks, Inc.
Tel: (512) 310-6562
tom.blake@photomask.com