ZTE Honors Xilinx with 2013 Global Partner Excellence Award

SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 9, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced that leading telecommunications and networking company ZTE, Inc. has named the company ‘2013 Global Partner Excellence’ Award winner for outstanding technology, quality, delivery, cost and services performance throughout 2013.

The prestigious award was presented to Xilinx during ZTE’s Supplier Day event in Shenzhen, China, where the company celebrated the commitment of its global suppliers to achieving the highest level of customer satisfaction. ZTE granted awards to suppliers in recognition of their contributions to its success during 2013 and affirming the key role suppliers will play in continuing to solidify the company’s position as one of the world’s top three global leaders and technology innovators in the telecommunications equipment and networking industry.

“Xilinx has played a pivotal role in ZTE’s success in the extremely competitive telecommunications and networking market by providing excellent day-to-day support and technical service to our global engineering team,” said Leslie Zhong, Director of Strategic Supplier Management at ZTE. “We’re pleased that our collaboration with Xilinx over the past 10 years has expanded with each year and Xilinx has continued to score above nine on ZTE’s performance scorecard for customer satisfaction.”

“The 2013 Global Partner Excellence Award is a key recognition from ZTE on Xilinx’s 28nm technology and product leadership and a tribute to the excellent day-to-day collaboration between Xilinx logistics, business operations, sales applications engineering and quality teams in support of ZTE,” said Frank Tornaghi, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Xilinx. “It’s a privilege to accept this best supplier award from ZTE and we are excited about the potential that continued collaboration will bring to ultra-high-speed wired and wireless products.”

In 2013, ZTE adopted Xilinx® 28nm FPGAs for industry-leading telecommunications products for wireless baseband, RRU platforms, data communications systems and carrier network, switch and access network applications. With Xilinx FPGAs, ZTE has been able to accelerate design productivity and build better systems faster, increasing system performance, meeting stringent bandwidth requirements, reducing total power consumption, and slashing bill of materials (BOM) costs.