Tekmos Talks April Newsletter

"Tekmos Talks"

a newsletter for the semiconductor industry

April, 2012 - Vol 1, Issue 2

In This Issue

New Product Breakthrough

Tekmos Quality Standards

Tekmos Committment

Quick Links

Tekmos Products Page

Tekmos Distributors

Greetings!

Welcome to the second issue of "Tekmos Talks". April's issue shares "big" news on prototypes for new parts, a successful audit of Tekmos by a major automaker, as well as take this opportunity to pay respect and remember the people of Japan on the one year anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Sendai and the northeast coast on March 11, 2011.

Tekmos Product Breakthroughs

Japan Semiconductor Industry Affected

We here at Tekmos have been very busy since the new year working on replacement processors for Freescale who closed its Sendai plant and shifted remaining production capacity to other facilities and foundry partners, such as Tekmos.

The Sendai facility had been producing microcontrollers, analog ICs and sensors products. Japan accounted for 13.9% of all global electronic equipment factory revenue in 2010 and suppliers accounted for more than one fifth of global semiconductor production.

As part of the Tekmos - Freescale Technology exchange,

Tekmos has accelerated its development of 68HC05 and 68HC11 microcontrollers in response to the shortage. In cooperation with Freescale, we are offering replacements for many of the affected processors. Every product we sell is 100% guaranteed.

We are excited to announce we have two successful prototypes for new parts that work very well and currently are sampling: TK68HC11E1 and TK68HC11K1. We have completed the second pass through the Fab. We continue to do sampling and have received production orders for TK68HC11E1.

For more information contact sales@tekmos.com or visit our Tekmos Product Page.

Tekmos News About Quality Standards

Our goal here at Tekmos is to be the service and quality leader for the markets we serve. Jon Gehm, Director of Operations for Tekmos, went to Taiwan the 1st week of April to do a quality audit on one of our major assemblers, Greatek. Quality and reliability begins during the design of all Tekmos products and continues.

Tekmos makes it a practice to regularly audit all of its suppliers. In the month of March Tekmos conducted an audit of one of its wafer fabs, X-Fab located in Lubbock, Texas and

was impressed and pleased with the results.

Tekmos is also very pleased to announce that we have successfully just completed a 4 day audit conducted with a major automaker.

For more information please contact Sales@Tekmos.com

Tekmos' Commitment to Combat Counterfeiting

Those of us in the industry are very aware of the serious problem about counterfeit parts and Tekmos is committed to combating it. Over half of the people we speak with who buy on the "gray market" are unsure if they have counterfeit parts showing up in their inventory. As a service, Tekmos has set up to test thousands of "gray market" parts from customers who purchased elsewhere, to verify and re-screen the parts to see if they are legitimate and meet spec.

Tekmos is about trust from the day of inception... always a trusted supplier.

Can you tell the difference?

Tekmos is a member of the Global Semiconductor Alliance. Read more on counterfeiting...

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Thank you for reading "Tekmos Talks". We are proud of the work we do bringing innovation to the world and we appreciate our customers.

Tekmos is looking back while innovating for tomorrow; making the world around us smarter and more efficient.

Sincerely,

Lynn Reed, President
Tekmos

Each year, the National Cherry Blossom Festival commemorates the 1912 gift of 3,000 cherry trees from Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo to the city of Washington, DC. The gift and annual celebration honor the lasting friendship between the United States and Japan and the continued close relationship between the two countries. The festival runs 3/20-April 27 in Washington, DC.

Read more...

This year the National Cherry Blossom Festival has a microsite within the American Red Cross, directly benefiting the Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami fund.