Award Honors Outstanding Environmental, Health and Safety Achievement in
the Semiconductor Industry
TOKYO, Dec. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Richard (Rich) K. Templeton, president
and chief executive officer of Texas Instruments Incorporated, is the
recipient of the Akira Inoue Award for outstanding achievement in
environment, health and safety in the semiconductor industry. The award is
sponsored by SEMI and will be presented tomorrow evening in Tokyo at the
SEMICON Japan President's Reception.
Templeton is recognized for his contributions to EHS leadership at
Texas Instruments, which has resulted in the introduction of innovative
environmentally-friendly products and processes and operational excellence
in health and safety for employees. Templeton is the eighth recipient of
the prestigious industry award.
"We recognize Rich Templeton for EHS leadership. Under his direction,
TI has made a priority of reducing air emissions, energy consumption, water
use and waste while increasing resource conservation and energy
efficiency," said Stanley Myers, president and CEO of SEMI. "His commitment
to ESH has led to outstanding achievements at Texas Instrument and
throughout the industry."
Templeton's commitment led to achievements at Texas Instrument and
industry-wide. Those cited by the Akira Inoue Award committee in the
selection of Mr. Templeton include:
-- TI built the world's first "green" semiconductor manufacturing
facility.
-- TI achieved the best safety rate in the company's history and the best
safety rate in the U.S. semiconductor industry for past three
consecutive years.
-- TI is leading the industry in providing digital and analog solutions
with low power consumption and greater energy efficiency.
-- TI received numerous awards and recognitions for outstanding ESH
performance and environmental stewardship from customers, media and
government organizations.
Rich Templeton has been president and chief executive officer of Texas
Instruments since May 2004. He also serves on the company's board of
directors, to which he was elected in July 2003. Previously, Templeton was
chief operating officer and executive vice president of the company and
president of TI's Semiconductor business. He is credited with helping to
define and execute TI's strategy to focus on semiconductors for signal
processing. Templeton joined the company in 1980 after earning a bachelor's
of science degree in electrical engineering from Union College in New York.
Templeton is also the immediate past chairman of the Semiconductor Industry
Association.
The Akira Inoue Award is sponsored by the Environmental, Health and
Safety (EHS) Division of SEMI. The award is named after the late Akira
Inoue, past president of Tokyo Electron Limited and a strong advocate of
the environment, health and safety. Inoue also served on the SEMI Board of
Directors. The award recognizes individuals in industry and academia who
have made significant contributions to this area by exercising leadership
or demonstrating innovation in the development of processes, products or
materials that reduce EHS impacts.
Past recipients of the Akira Inoue Award include Pasquale Pistorio,
former CEO of STMicroelectronics; Craig Barrett, former CEO of Intel
Corporation; Farhang Shadman, director of the Engineering and Research
Center for Environmentally Benign Semiconductor Manufacturing at the
University of Arizona; Saburo Kusama, president of Epson Corp.; Isao
Uchigasaki, chairman of the board of Hitachi Chemical Company; Gerald
Ermentrout, vice president and general manager of the Electronics Division
of Air Products; and Chang-Gyu Hwang, president and CEO of the
Semiconductor Business of Samsung Electronics.
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 includes the
Education Technology business. 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 SEMI
SEMI is the global industry association serving the manufacturing
supply chains for the microelectronic, display and photovoltaic industries.
SEMI member companies are the engine of the future, enabling smarter,
faster and more economical products that improve our lives. Since 1970,
SEMI has been committed to helping members grow more profitably, create new
markets and meet common industry challenges. SEMI maintains offices in
Austin, Beijing, Brussels, Hsinchu, Moscow, San Jose, Seoul, Shanghai,
Singapore, Tokyo, and Washington, D.C. For more information, visit
http://www.semi.org.
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CONTACT:
Scott Smith of SEMI, +1-408-943-7957,
ssmith@semi.org
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