Asyst Technologies, Inc. Receives Intel's Preferred Quality Supplier Award.FREMONT, Calif. -- Asyst Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :ASYT) has received Intel Corporation's Preferred Quality Supplier (PQS PQS - Picture Quality Scale ) award recognizing their significant contributions to Intel in 2008. Asyst supplies Intel with automated material handling systems, deemed essential to Intel's success. Asyst and 25 additional suppliers are recognized as 2008 PQS award winners. "Asyst Technologies is delighted to be recognized by Intel Corporation (company) Intel Corporation - A US microelectronics manufacturer. They produced the Intel 4004, Intel 8080, Intel 8086, Intel 80186, Intel 80286, Intel 80386, Intel 486 and Pentium microprocessor families as well as many other integrated circuits and personal computer networking as a Preferred Quality Supplier, which we believe reflects our commitment to continuous quality improvement, system reliability, and productivity enhancement on behalf of our customers. We thank Intel for this honor and congratulate our team members around the world whose hard work contributed to this award," said Steve Schwartz Dr. Schwartz founded Unitrends in 1989 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Schwartz is considered the initial developer of a data recovery and restoration technique known as bare-metal restore and is recognized in the software industry as the developer of CTAR (Compressing Tape Archiver) and , president, chairman, and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Asyst Technologies. "Congratulations to Asyst for winning the PQS award for the second consecutive year. In 2008, Asyst continued to demonstrate excellence in customer support and project execution while maintaining outstanding safety performance and providing effective cost of ownership reduction programs in support of our product roadmap," said David Bloss, Technology Manufacturing Engineering Automation director, Intel Corporation. The PQS award is part of Intel's Supplier Continuous Quality Improvement (SCQI SCQI Supplier Continuous Quality Improvement (Intel) ) program 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/business systems assessment. Furthermore, the 2008 awardees had to demonstrate basic compliance to the Electronic Industry Code of Conduct and Intel's Green Sustainability Program. Additional information about the SCQI program is available at http://supplier.intel.com/quality/scqi.htm. Celebrations will be held in Tokyo, Japan and Santa Clara, California Santa Clara, California (IPA: /ˌsæntəˈklærə/) , founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. during the month of March 2009 to honor the PQS award winners. In addition, there will be an online advertisement launch and acknowledgement on Intel's website. About Asyst Asyst Technologies, Inc., founded in 1984, provides automation solutions optimized for the needs of our global customers in the semiconductor, flat panel display A thin display screen for computer and TV usage. The first flat panels appeared on laptop computers in the mid-1980s, and the LCD technology became the standard. Stand-alone LCD screens became available for desktop computers in the mid-1990s and exceeded sales of CRTs for the first time , and related industries. As the most experienced fab automation company, we are dedicated to helping our customers gain competitive advantage through the intelligent application of our wide range of productivity and yield-boosting technologies. Asyst solutions are used in every 300mm wafer fabrication facility in the world and in the vast majority of 200mm facilities that use the standard mechanical interface (SMIF SMIF Standard Mechanical Interface SMIF Stream-based Model Interchange Format SMIF Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility (Duke University) SMIF Stanford Management Internship Fund SMIF SMAD4-Interacting Transcription Factor ) manufacturing protocol. The world's top 20 chipmakers and top 20 equipment companies all use Asyst products. Intel is a trademark or registered trademark of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. Asyst is a registered trademark of Asyst Technologies, Inc. |
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