Sanmina-Sci Corp (SANM)

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Sanmina-SCI and OneChip Photonics Announce Optical Manufacturing Partnership
Press Release
Source: Sanmina-SCI Corporation
On Sunday September 6, 2009, 8:00 pm EDT

SAN JOSE, Calif. and OTTAWA, Sept. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sanmina-SCI Corporation (Nasdaq NM: SANM - News, SANMD - News), a leading global Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) company, and OneChip Photonics, an emerging supplier of low-cost, high-performance optical transceivers, today announced a manufacturing partnership to produce OneChip Photonics' breakthrough Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC)-based Fiber-to-the-Premises (FTTP) transceivers.

"Sanmina-SCI is excited to have been selected by OneChip Photonics to support the introduction and volume manufacture of OneChip's unique FTTP transceiver product line," said Dave Dutkowsky, Executive Vice President of Sanmina-SCI's Communications Infrastructure Division. "This partnership is an excellent example of a high-technology customer using Sanmina-SCI's complete end-to-end manufacturing capabilities and global supply chain solutions to bring a unique optical access product to market. OneChip Photonics will be leveraging our global optical infrastructure which includes our domestic New Product Introduction and Gateway Centers, plus our optical component manufacturing capability in China."

"We look forward to working with Sanmina-SCI, a world leader in optical manufacturing and trusted partner whose expertise, skills and global capabilities will help OneChip rapidly deliver very cost-efficient and high-quality devices to our customers," said Chris Hart, Vice President of Operations at OneChip Photonics. "We believe our breakthrough approach and technology will accelerate FTTx deployment, and our partnership with Sanmina-SCI will enable us to bring this technology to market on a global basis."

Sanmina-SCI has design, manufacturing and logistics facilities strategically located in key regions throughout the world, including the Shenzhen Optical facility that was acquired from JDS Uniphase in early 2009. Collectively, Sanmina-SCI provides more than 30 years of optical design and engineering experience to its customers.

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, computing and storage, and automotive technology sectors. Sanmina-SCI has facilities strategically located in key regions throughout the world. More information regarding the company is available at http://www.sanmina-sci.com.

About OneChip Photonics

OneChip Photonics is a privately held company, headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, that develops and manufactures low-cost, high-performance optical transceivers -- based on monolithic Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) in Indium Phosphide (InP) -- for access networks and other mass-market broadband applications. OneChip's breakthrough approach and technology will remove the cost and performance barriers that have been impeding the ubiquitous deployment of Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) and enable new business and consumer broadband applications. For more information, please contact OneChip at [phone] or [e-mail], or visit our Web site at http://www.onechipphotonics.com.

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 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 our Company's fiscal year 2008 Annual Report on Form 10-K and fiscal 2009 quarterly reports on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities Exchange Commission.
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