Silicon Turnkey Solutions Completes Asset Acquisition of Bay Area EMS (BAEMS)

Acquisition bolsters STS product line-up and Introduces Company to new markets

MILPITAS, Calif.-- January 16, 2014 --Silicon Turnkey Solutions, a leading provider of design-to-product-enablement and single-source engineering solutions, announced today that the Company has completed an asset acquisition that bolsters its current product line up, and further solidifies their position in turnkey manufacturing. STS has acquired assets of Bay Area EMS (BAEMS), a Milpitas based Electronics System Integrator and Contract manufacturer.

Building upon its core competence of product enablement portfolio of services, STS now adds contract manufacturing and board testing services to its portfolio offering complete turnkey final board and system level solutions.

“This acquisition is vital for our growth and diversification strategy as STS broadens its turnkey board and system level solutions for our customers”, commented Zef Malik, CEO of STS.

Marti McCurdy, VP of sales, added that it will propel our turnkey to a true 360 model, extending the current offerings of parts procurement, value added up screening, qualification, and board assembly followed by board testing, taking us directly to customers finished modules for the Military and Aerospace markets. She further stated that this line will maintain selected modules for eutectic assembly enabling a DOD trusted source solution for our National security needs.

About Silicon Turnkey Solutions

STS, a privately owned US based company headquartered in Milpitas, California, is an industry recognized design-to-product-enablement company that provides complete turnkey assembly engineering solutions for complex ASIC, RF, FPGAs, Mixed Signal, high speed memory, SOC and SIP semiconductors. We integrate design migration, engineering, manufacturing, test, and qualification processes with operational expertise to provide leading edge, complete turnkey solutions. Our services enable semiconductor customers to meet demanding time-to-market pressure, cost, and technical challenges in today’s consumer, military, and aerospace markets. STS is fully equipped to handle Military and Space qualification flows, value-added screening, and support on diminished and obsolete component products. STS’s core competence on lead edge electrical testing, IP validation, IC assembly, Reliability and Analytical solutions, all as a single source internal capability accelerates customers’ time to market success. STS is a premier supplier to the military and defense sectors for leading edge ASIC, FPGA, memory and RF products. STS is a DOD trusted source turnkey provider.

Further information can be found at: www.sts-usa.com.

About Silicon360

Silicon360, a division of Silicon Turnkey Solutions, is a comprehensive domestic provider of secure, fully screened and qualified semiconductors to the military, aerospace, industrial, medical and commercial markets. A wide range of manufacturing, assembly, reliability, and test capabilities provides technical and business solutions for semiconductor devices throughout their lifecycle from design to inventory management. Si360’s reengineering solutions provide its military and aerospace customers with a long-term supply chain of ruggedized products.

Further information can be found at: www.silicon360.com.