SilTerra Receives Technology Implementation Award From Frost & Sullivan

Kulim, Malaysia (April 2nd , 2009) – SilTerra Malaysia Sdn. Bhd., a leading wafer foundry provider, officially received the 2009 South East Asia Technology Implementation Award from Frost & Sullivan, an independent industrial research and consulting firm. The award is a timely recognition and endorsement of SilTerra’s leadership and accomplishment in our engineering and manufacturing capabilities for High Voltage Technology. The Award Steering Committee of Frost and Sullivan chose SilTerra because of its significant contributions in building advanced CMOS technology capability in Malaysia and in raising Malaysia’s international profile in the global semiconductor industry.

SilTerra is one of the market leaders in High Voltage Technology for the small and medium TFT display driver integrated circuit (IC) market. Currently, it is shipping more than 150 millions IC’s a year to world-class fabless IC design houses worldwide. The display driver is a critical component in the display panel of mobile electronic devices such as Mobile phone, MP3, Digital Camera, Portable Media Player and etc. The function of each display driver is to process the video image signals and convert to rich colors (eg. 262K or 16M colors) and high pixel resolutions used in the TFT panel such as QVGA (Quarter Video Graphic Array), HVGA (Half VGA) or WVGA (Wide VGA).

“We would like to thank Frost & Sullivan for this award. For the Silterra team, this is a huge honour and a solid recognition of both our engineering capabilities to build innovative technology and our manufacturing capabilities to mass produce advanced technology in hundreds of millions of parts with consistently high yield and quality. We are committed to this market and will continue to accelerate our leadership in this technology with more innovative breakthroughs and more design wins with world-class customers especially in the high-definition and energy-efficient driver IC market,” said Dr. Kamarulzaman Zin, the Executive Committee Chairman of Silterra Malaysia.

“At SilTerra, we have been growing our High Voltage wafer foundry business since 2002, starting from 220nm technology node until today’s 130nm technology. We will be rolling out 0.11u and 90nm technology soon,” he added.

About SilTerra Malaysia Sdn Bhd:
Market driven, SilTerra Malaysia Sdn Bhd is a semiconductor wafer foundry offering major foundry compatible CMOS logic, high-voltage and mixed-signal/RF technologies down to 90nm feature size. The broad choice of mature technologies and IP’s, flexibility and capabilities enable Silterra to serve broad range of customers from fabless to IDM in highly dynamic consumer electronics and communication applications. SilTerra’s wafer fab has a designed capacity of 40,000 eight-inch wafers per month.

Environmentally vigilant, SilTerra delivers award winning, world-class performance to its customers seeking flexible capacity, competitive advantages and around the clock customer support. SilTerra is ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001 certified. Founded in 1995, the company’s headquarters and factory are located in Malaysia’s Kulim High-Tech Park, and SilTerra has sales and marketing offices in San Jose (California) and Hsinchu (Taiwan).

For additional information on SilTerra or its services, please visit www.silterra.com.

SilTerra Contact

Koh Meng Kong
Tel: +604-401-4166 (o)
Tel: +6012-491-0425 (hp)
Email: mengkong_koh {at} silterra(.)com

Lu Ping Chiang
Tel : +886-3-574-1587 (o)
Email : pingchiang_lu {at} silterra(.)com

U.S. Media Contact
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