LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION RECEIVES ISO 9001:2000 REGISTRATION
FREMONT, Calif., August 9, 2001 — Lam Research Corporation
(Nasdaq: LRCX) today announced formally receiving ISO 9001:2000 Quality
System Registration by the National Standards Authority of Ireland
(NSAI). The scope of the registration includes the design, manufacture,
installation, and servicing of semiconductor wafer fab process equipment.
The new ISO 9001:2000 standard expands requirements of the earlier
ISO 9001:1994 standard for the integration of process-based quality
management systems. Lam is one of the first leading semiconductor
equipment companies in the world to achieve registration to this new
Quality System Standard.
“Achieving this registration demonstrates our continued strong
commitment to increasing customer trust and to improving our product
and service quality and process management systems,” stated
Steve Newberry, Lam’s president and COO.
“Assimilating the ISO 9001:2000 framework within our Lam Quality
Management System enables us to better maintain our leadership position
within the increasingly competitive semiconductor equipment industry,”
stated Bob Rudy, Lam’s vice president of business excellence.
“We are honored to be one of the first companies in the world
to attain this distinction.”
NSAI’s Quality Management System Registration program registers
organizations whose quality management systems conform to international
quality standards, such as the International Organization for Standardization
(ISO) 9000 series. The new ISO 9001:2000 standard was developed by
an international body of quality management system experts and was
officially released in December 2000. Qualifying for registration
is an extensive process, taking at least six months to complete detailed
inspection and evaluation of documentation and processes. Lam’s
registration audit took place in mid-July and was conducted by a team
of auditors from NSAI’s headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements which
are subject to the Safe Harbor provisions created by the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements include
those relating to the projection of future market conditions, growth
expectations and economic trends. Such statements are based on current
expectations and are subject to risks, uncertainties, and changes
in condition, significance, value and effect including those risks
detailed in documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
and specifically the report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
June 24, 2001 and the Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 23,
2001, which could cause actual results to vary from expectations.
The company undertakes no obligation to update the information in
this Press Release.
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