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Toppan Photomasks Receives 'Top 10 Best Supplier Award' From CSMC

Round Rock, TX

Toppan Photomasks, Inc. announced today that it received a "Top 10 Best Supplier Award" for 2007 from CSMC Silicon Foundries, marking the first time the pioneering analog foundry in China has given its highest award to a photomask maker.

The award recognizes Toppan's contribution to CSMC's revenue based on such considerations as the superior quality of its photomasks, consistent on-time delivery and price competitiveness.

"By consistently meeting our demanding performance objectives and service requirements, Toppan has played an important role in the success of CSMC," said Elvis DENG Mao-Song, president of CSMC Silicon Foundries. "They are a strong example of the reliable and valued partnerships we need to continue expanding our business."

The award also highlights Toppan's history of meeting the needs of the Chinese semiconductor industry. Recognizing China's potential as a major semiconductor producer more than 10 years ago, the company built a photomask-manufacturing facility in Shanghai. This facility, located near major semiconductor fabs, is part of a joint venture with Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology (SIMIT).

"Receiving CSMC's highest award further demonstrates Toppan's commitment to our customers' success through sustained world-class quality, operational performance and service," said Dave Murray, president and CEO of Toppan Photomasks. "Toppan's ability to reliably deliver photomasks for demanding schedules confirms the competitive advantages of the company's superior technology, supply capabilities and integrated global network of facilities. We are committed to maintaining this high level of collaboration between our global network of facilities and our valued partners like CSMC."

With more than a decade of working with China's chip companies, the Shanghai facility and support staff have more experience serving the country's semiconductor industry than any other photomask maker. The facility connects China's integrated device manufacturers (IDMs), foundries and rapidly growing fabless-chip sector to Toppan's unmatched network of mask manufacturing, R&D and customer-support sites around the world. Toppan Shanghai has tripled its output since opening.

About CSMC

CSMC is a pioneer open foundry in China, with the aim of becoming a leading analog foundry in China offering integrated circuits ("ICs") manufacturing service for fabless design houses and integrated device manufacturers ("IDMs") that outsource their production. CSMC was listed on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited in August 2004. The Group offers worldwide customers a broad range of analog and power process technologies including Mixed Signal, BCDMOS, BiCMOS, Planar and Trench DMOS, EEPROM and CMOS Logic. It also offers assistance to fabless customers by arranging upstream IC design services as well as downstream testing and packaging services. CSMC's Fab 1, founded in 1997, is located at Wuxi, China, and is the first and the largest 6-inch open foundry in China in terms of production capacity, dedicated to providing better quality and cost effective foundry services. CSMC Fab 3 is located in Beijing and focuses on Power MOSFET production with a planned capacity of 20,000 6-inch wafers per month. CSMC is headquartered in Wuxi, with offices in Taiwan, Hong Kong and the U.S.

About Toppan Printing

Founded in 1900, Toppan Printing has branched into seven diverse business fields, including security cards, commercial printing, publications printing, packaging, industrial materials, electronics and optronics. In the fiscal year ended March 31, 2007, Toppan posted revenues of ¥1,557,8 billion (more than US$13 billion), and ended the year with approximately 36,000 employees. For more information visit www.toppan.co.jp.

About Toppan Photomasks

Toppan Photomasks, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. a diversified global company with revenue in excess of $13 billion in fiscal 2007. Toppan Photomasks is part of the Toppan Group of photomask companies. As the world's premier photomask provider, the Toppan Group operates the industry's most advanced and largest network of manufacturing facilities and offers a comprehensive range of photomask technologies and research and development capabilities to meet the increasingly sophisticated and divergent product-and service requirements of the global semiconductor industry. Toppan Photomasks is headquartered in Round Rock, Texas. For more information visit www.photomask.com.