Arrow Asia Pac Honored with Awards from Texas Instruments

HONG KONG, Nov. 3 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Arrow received three awards for its outstanding performance in sales and demand creation, for High Performance Analog (HPA) products in Asia from Texas Instruments (TI), a leading provider of digital signal processing and analog technologies.

Arrow was recognized for its significant growth with TI's analog product portfolio in Asia. "We are very impressed with Arrow's outstanding performance in High Performance Analog resale growth in 2005. Arrow's design- in capability and profound understanding of the local market were especially successful in working with its customers to help them select the right high- performance analog products for their applications," said Terry Cheng, President, Texas Instruments Asia.

Arrow received the Bronze Award and Country Award for the Highest HPA resale. In addition, Bob Zhang, a Field Application Engineer of Arrow China was awarded for "Best Video Decoder Design".

"These awards reflect the hard work from both sales and technical service teams to identify analog design-in opportunities and successfully bring them to fruition. TI's support to the partnership and innovative technology development have been instrumental in Arrow winning this award," said David Shen, Vice President, Technical Marketing, Arrow Asia Pac.

About Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments Incorporated provides innovative DSP and analog technologies to meet our customers' real world signal processing requirements. In addition to Semiconductor, the company's businesses include Sensors & Controls, and Educational & Productivity Solutions. TI is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and has manufacturing, design or sales operations in more than 25 countries.

Texas Instruments is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TXN. More information is located on the World Wide Web at http://www.ti.com/ .

About Arrow Asia Pac

A subsidiary of Arrow Electronics, Inc. , Arrow Asia Pac is one of Asia Pacific's leading electronic component distributors. In addition to its regional headquarters in Hong Kong, Arrow Asia Pac operates 41 sales offices, three primary distribution centers and ten local warehousing facilities in eleven countries/territories across Asia.

Providing a full range of semiconductors, passive, electromechanical and connectors products from over 60 leading international suppliers, Arrow Asia Pac serves more than 10,000 original equipment and contract manufacturers and commercial customers in Asia Pacific. Visit us at http://www.arrowasia.com/ .

Media Contact: Ray Leung Marketing Communications Director Arrow Asia Pac Ltd. Tel: +852-2484-2683 Email: ray.leung@arrowasia.com Grace Kung Marketing Communications Manager Tel: +852-2484-2682 Email: grace.kung@arrowasia.com