SMIC Earns Supplier Award from GalaxyCore

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) has earned the "2010 Excellent Supplier Award" from its customer GalaxyCore Inc.

GalaxyCore is a Chinese CMOS image sensor (CIS) design company whose shipments last year made up more than half of the entire China market. GalaxyCore owns innovative CIS core technologies, which enable its products to be relatively small in size while maintaining outstanding image performance that rivals CCD image quality at a low cost and with low power consumption. SMIC has earned the GalaxyCore Excellent Supplier Award for two consecutive years since the award was established in 2009. The award recognizes SMIC's outstanding performance in the areas of service, strategic support and technology development.

"SMIC is our most trusted foundry partner. Our partnership with SMIC further strengthens and guarantees the quality of our products," said Stanly Zhao, Chief Executive Officer of GalaxyCore. "GalaxyCore has always insisted on being customer-oriented and our explosive growth over just a few years has made GalaxyCore a globally-recognized brand. We look forward to forging a closer relationship with SMIC on our future high-end products."

"GalaxyCore holds the largest CIS VGA market share in China, so earning this Excellent Supplier Award for two consecutive years is a great honor for SMIC," said SMIC President and CEO David N.K. Wang. "We will continue to improve our service and speed up the R&D on TSV/CU BEOL technology to assist GalaxyCore in the high-end product segment and pursue our mutual vision of products 'Designed in China, Made in China'."

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