Benchmark Electronics Joins the Texas Instruments Elite Design House Network

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Feb 11, 2010, 09:15 ET

ANGLETON, Texas, Feb. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Benchmark Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: BHE), a leading contract manufacturing provider, announced that the company has been selected to be a member of Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) Elite Design House Network, a small group of independent companies offering system design, development, prototyping and electronic manufacturing services to customers worldwide. Benchmark's global design team utilizes TI's technology as part of its global service offering to design and launch customers' products into volume production.

"The Benchmark team is proud to be part of this select group of companies. Aligning our roadmap with TI allows us to shorten the time to market for our customers and provide innovative solutions for their products," said Mark Troutman, Vice President of Development Engineering for Benchmark Electronics.

"Benchmark Electronics has a proven history of solving customer problems with innovative, high quality solutions," said Jason Baz Jones, TI Worldwide Account Manager. "Benchmark's global design and manufacturing footprint uniquely positions them to engage with customers through all phases of the design cycle and into volume production. Additionally, Benchmark's expertise in designing across a wide variety of applications with TI's Analog and embedded processing solutions makes them a compelling choice in support of our worldwide customers."

As an Elite Design House Network member, Benchmark Electronics will deploy its extensive design and implementation knowledge with TI products to help customers more rapidly and cost-effectively bring innovative electronics products to market.

About Benchmark Electronics

Benchmark Electronics, Inc. provides electronics manufacturing, design and engineering services to original equipment manufacturers of computers and related products for business enterprises, medical devices, industrial control equipment, testing and instrumentation products, and telecommunication equipment. Benchmark's global operations include 24 facilities in ten countries. Benchmark's Common Shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol BHE. For more information about Benchmark, please visit www.bench.com.

About the Texas Instruments Elite Design House Network

The TI Elite Design House Network is a premier group of independent, well-established companies that offer system-level design services and products for industrial, consumer, medical, aerospace/military, telecommunications, computing, and other markets. Network members may provide design feasibility, research, complete system/product design, hardware/software system integration, prototyping, manufacturing, and product life-cycle management services to a worldwide customer base to accelerate product innovation and time to market. www.ti.com/tidevnetwork

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