KEELUNG, Taiwan, March 18, 2008   Lotes was named a recipient of Intel Corporation?s 2007 Preferred Quality Supplier (PQS) award for outstanding performance in providing products and services deemed essential to Intel?s success. The company was awarded for its efforts supplying Intel with connectors and sockets. Lotes and 34 additional PQS award winners were honored at a celebration in Burlingame, California on March 18.

“This is a great honor for LOTES to receive the prestigious PQS award for the very first time; we believe this would never have happened without the support and guidance from Intel. LOTES devotes to continuously being one of Intel?s best supplier and leaps together with Intel in the future,??said Ted Ju, president, LOTES Co., Ltd. 

“Lotes has done a great job supporting Intel in jointly designing several new types of connectors for Tylersburg-EP products to meet special product technical requirements,??said Fly Wang, engineering manager, Intel Enterprise Platforms and Services Division.

The PQS awards are part of Intel?s Supplier Continuous Quality Improvement (SCQI) process that encourages suppliers to strive for excellence and continuous improvement. To qualify for PQS status, suppliers must score 80 percent on a report card that assesses performance and ability to meet cost, quality, availability, delivery, technology and responsiveness goals. Suppliers must also manage and deliver on a challenging improvement plan and a quality systems assessment. Additional information about the SCQI program is available at http://supplier.intel.com/quality.