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SAN JOSE,
Calif. – April 4, 2006 – Sanmina-SCI
Corporation (Nasdaq NM: SANM), a leading global
electronics manufacturing services (EMS)
company, today announce that it has entered into
a joint development agreement with Shocking
Technologies, Inc. to develop the use of
Shocking’s specialty polymers for embedding ESD
(Electrostatic Discharge) protection into
internal layers of printed circuit boards
(PCBs). Shocking scientists will work with
Sanmina-SCI development teams to formulate VSDM
(Voltage Switchable Dielectric Materials) for
inclusion in Sanmina-SCI’s proprietary PCB
structures. VSDM materials are specialty
polymers that instantaneously change from
insulators to conductors when a pre-programmed
bi-directional voltage is applied.
“ESD
is a hot topic in the electronics business
today,” said George Dudnikov, Senior Vice
President and Chief Technology Officer for
Sanmina-SCI’s PCB and Backplane Divisions. “Many
companies are faced with the challenges of
protecting their expensive components from
damage caused by voltage or current transients.
On-chip ESD protection is available but hampers
chip design and performance. Discrete devices
are also effective but consume valuable surface
real estate and do not protect every component.
Sanmina-SCI has been studying different
approaches to utilize the PCB as a platform for
providing ESD protection to these
chips.”
The Electrostatic Discharge
Association (ESDA) headquartered in Rome, New
York, estimates that at least 25 percent of
today’s failures in electronic products are
caused by ESD. Cost to the industry is estimated
to be in the billions of
dollars.
“Shocking Technologies is
excited to team up with an industry leader like
Sanmina-SCI for our PCB product,” said Lex
Kosowsky, Shocking Technologies President and
CEO. “We look forward to working with the
Sanmina-SCI team to bring our VSDM technology to
market. As electronic products and the features
of the integrated circuits inside them continue
to get smaller and faster, ESD is becoming a
larger and larger threat. The technology will
also allow a path to reduce both size and weight
for consumer electronics applications while
providing superior protection for infrastructure
products. We are confident that as our
technology is implemented, Sanmina-SCI will be a
great partner in helping commercialize our
technology while helping us achieve our goal of
making our VSDM an industry standard for ESD
protection in PCBs.”
The combination of
the VSDM technology and Sanmina-SCI’s
industry-leading Buried Capacitance® technology
will provide superior protection and improved
reliability while allowing major cost savings
through board-size reduction, decreased
component count and yield
improvements.
“There is a lot of talk
regarding PCBs as commodities,” added Dudnikov.
“Here is an example of an innovative application
that will provide value-added performance to the
PCB. Both Shocking and Sanmina-SCI have IP in
the area, and this partnership will elevate the
circuit board as a critical component in
electronic assembling.”
Sanmina-SCI’s PCB
Division is a pioneering force in the PCB
industry with more than 20 patents and 26 years
of experience, offering customers the latest in
high-performance materials, enhanced via
geometrics for significant increases in useable
bandwidth and substantial decrease in Bit Error
Rates (BER). State-of-the-art PCB factories are
strategically located in North America, Europe
and Asia, offering high-end technology and
efficient lower-cost
manufacturing.
Sanmina-SCI’s Backplane
Division features highly skilled engineers and
design centers around the world, providing
customers with passive, active and
high-bandwidth backplanes. |
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| About
Sanmina-SCI: |
| Sanmina-SCI
Corporation is a leading electronics contract
manufacturer serving the fastest-growing
segments of the global electronics manufacturing
services (EMS) market. Recognized as a
technology leader, Sanmina-SCI provides
end-to-end manufacturing solutions, delivering
unsurpassed quality and support to OEMs
primarily in the communications, defense and
aerospace, industrial and medical
instrumentation, multimedia and consumer,
computer and server, and automotive technology
sectors. Sanmina-SCI has facilities
strategically located in key regions throughout
the world. More information regarding the
Company is available at www.sanmina-sci.com. |
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| Sanmina-SCI Safe Harbor
Statement: |
| The foregoing,
including the discussion regarding the company's
future prospects, contains certain
forward-looking statements that involve risks
and uncertainties, including uncertainties
associated with economic conditions in the
electronics industry, particularly in the
principal industry sectors served by the
company, changes in customer requirements and in
the volume of sales to principal customers, the
ability of Sanmina-SCI to effectively assimilate
acquired businesses and achieve the anticipated
benefits of its acquisitions, and competition
and technological change. The company's actual
results of operations may differ significantly
from those contemplated by such forward-looking
statements as a result of these and other
factors, including factors set forth in the
company's fiscal year 2005 Annual Report on Form
10-K filed on December 29, 2005 with the
Securities Exchange Commission. |
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| Sanmina-SCI
Contacts |
| Michael Kovacs |
| Director, Corporate Marketing |
| +1.408.964.3142 |
| michael.kovacs@sanmina-sci.com |
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| Paige Bombino |
| Investor Relations |
| +1.408.964.3610 |
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