Selected as Companies Excellently Meeting Diverse Requirements

Texas Instruments (TI) announced the selection of 16 partners as recipients of this year's Supplier Excellence Award (SEA).

This award is the highest-prestige honor TI bestows on its partners, recognizing companies that conduct business ethically while excellently meeting diverse requirements—including quality, environmental and social responsibility, technology, responsiveness, delivery, and cost—in products, services, and support. These 16 companies were selected from over 12,000 partners.



Rob Simpson, Vice President of Worldwide Procurement and Logistics at TI, stated, "Our customers understand that TI plays a critical role in enabling innovation and bringing products to market ahead of the competition. We hold our suppliers to the same expectations," adding, "This year's SEA recipients demonstrated exceptional capabilities in providing the products we need and the performance we expect."

The 16 selected suppliers of excellence and their products or services provided to TI are as follows: △ Ardentec – Test Services △ ASM – Manufacturing Equipment and Services △ Balfour Beatty Construction – General Civil Engineering △ Cabot Microelectronics – Chemicals △ Formfactor – Test and Probe Equipment △ IC Enable – Engineering Services △ JMJ Korea – Clips △ KWE (Kintetsu World Express) – Global Transportation, Product Distribution, and Logistics △ LG Siltron – Silicon Wafers △ M Arthur Gensler Jr & Associates – Architectural Design △ M/C/C – Media Management Services △ STI (Semiconductor Technologies & Instruments) – Assembly Materials △ Shinko Electric Industries, IC Assembly Division – Assembly Services △ Sumitomo Bakelite – Mold Compounds △ Toppan Photomask – Photomasks △ Turner Construction – General Construction.