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AMD Receives this Years 'Best Supplier Award' from Samsung
AMD Receives this Years 'Best Supplier Award' from Samsung
SUNNYVALE, CA -- November 20, 2000 --AMD today announced that Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. has named AMD the recipient of its 2000 "Best Supplier Award." Samsung's prestigious award was given to AMD in recognition of its excellence in supporting the Wireless Terminal Division of Samsung Electronics, with AMD's Flash memory solutions.
Samsung's vice president of purchasing, Kwang Suk Hyun commended AMD's outstanding achievement in providing excellent support and a strong strategic partnership to Samsung's Wireless Terminal Division. He said that the award is well deserved and is a true measure of AMD's excellence.
"We are thrilled to receive this prestigious award from the leading manufacturer of CDMA-cellular telephones, the fastest growing segment of the wireless market," said Walid Maghribi, group vice president of AMD's Memory Group. "AMD prides itself in our ability to combine Flash technology leadership and industry leading reliability, with the highest levels of customer service."
This is the fourth Flash memory customer support award that AMD has received recently. AMD received the Nortel 2000 Supplier of the Year award, the Volkswagen 1999 Leading Edge award and the Cisco 1999 Semiconductor Supplier of the Year award.
AMD announced a multi-year flash memory supply agreement with Samsung in January of this year.
About AMD Flash Memory Devices
AMD is a leader in flash memory products with devices that encompass a broad spectrum of densities and features to support a wide range of markets. AMD has many innovative products such as the award winning Simultaneous Read Write (SRW) product family, Super Low Voltage 1.8V flash memory devices, and Burst and Page mode devices. AMD developed the robust Known Good Die (KGD) program, and the patented negative gate erase technique, and refined the industry standard Fine pitch Ball Grid Array (FBGA). All of AMD's flash memory products are guaranteed for a minimum of one million write cycles per sector and 20 years data retention, making them the most reliable non-volatile memory devices offered in the industry.
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