NDK (Nihon Dempa Kogyo Co. Ltd.) announced the opening of a new sales engineering and customer support office in California. NDK America-Silicon Valley is located at 1551 McCarthy Boulevard, Suite 202, Milpitas, CA 95035. The company can be reached by phone at (408) 428-0800, fax (408) 428-0801 or e-mail sales@ndkxtal.com. The office is headed up by Craig Taylor, General Manager, Business and Applications Development for NDK. This move fits right in with NDK’s philosophy of delivering support at the point of opportunity while offering customers effective solutions. The Silicon Valley office will also provide a local point of contact for NDK’s Western Regional clients. It will provide traditional support for NDK’s OEM and EMS customers as well as working with IC/chip set designers in the area of semiconductor device reference designs.

“Our mission, first and foremost, is to provide supreme service to our customers. This mission is accomplished in the characteristic areas of technology, quality, performance, product availability, and — with the opening of our Silicon Valley office —unparalleled resource dedication. Silicon Valley is still considered to be the center of the universe in the area of innovation. The latest evolution now encompasses Silicon Valley as the juxtaposition of innovation in the West, and pilot/production implementation in the Eastern-reaches of the world,” said Craig Taylor, General Manager, Business and Applications Development, NDK.