Chartered Honors Top Suppliers for Excellence in Fab Support

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    SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 24, 2005--Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing (Nasdaq:CHRT) (SGX-ST:Chartered), one of the world's top dedicated semiconductor foundries, today honored its equipment, materials and services suppliers during Supplier Day 2005, the company's annual event honoring the achievements of its value-chain partners.
    "Overall, we see an improvement in our suppliers' performance due to their greater participation and contribution of technical expertise and experience to support successful execution in our fabs," said Tang Yong "TY" Ang, vice president, quality and fab support operations at Chartered. "As Chartered enters into volume manufacturing at our 300-millimeter Fab 7, our priorities are fast yield ramp and excellent equipment performance. To achieve these goals, we are involving our suppliers in engineering projects with Chartered's manufacturing teams to aggressively drive throughput and productivity improvements, and lower cost of ownership."
    Chartered evaluated its suppliers based on criteria of quality, service, innovation, delivery and cost. The Gold and Silver winners of Chartered's supplier awards are as follows:

Equipment Category: Gold Supplier Award Tokyo Electron Limited Silver Supplier Award Ebara Corporation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Materials Category: Gold Materials Supplier Award Honeywell (Singapore) Pte Ltd Silver Materials Supplier Award Air Products Singapore Pte Ltd ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Services Category: Gold Services Supplier Award Hewlett-Packard Singapore Pte Ltd Silver Services Supplier Award Sun Microsystems Pte Ltd

    About Chartered

    Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing (Nasdaq:CHRT)(SGX-ST: CHARTERED), one of the world's top dedicated semiconductor foundries, offers leading-edge technologies down to 90 nanometer (nm), enabling today's system-on-chip designs. The company further serves the needs of customers through its collaborative, joint development approach on a technology roadmap that extends to 45nm. Chartered's strategy is based on open and comprehensive design enablement solutions, manufacturing enhancement methodologies, and a commitment to flexible sourcing. In Singapore, the company operates a 300mm fabrication facility and four 200mm facilities. Information about Chartered can be found at http://www.charteredsemi.com.

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CONTACT: Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Maggie Tan, (65) 6360.4705 maggietan@charteredsemi.com Tiffany Sparks, 408-941-1185 (Chartered U.S.) tiffanys@charteredsemi.com

KEYWORD: SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL ASIA PACIFIC INDUSTRY KEYWORD: HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANUFACTURING PRODUCT SOURCE: Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing

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