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ON Semiconductor Wins “2009 Strategic Supplier” Award from Leading Home Appliance Brand Hisense 

QINGDAO, China –August 18, 2009 - ON Semiconductor (Nasdaq: ONNN), a leading global supplier of high performance, energy efficient, silicon solutions, has won the “2009 Strategic Supplier” award from Hisense Electric Company Limited (Hisense), a world leading provider of flat panel TVs, household appliances and mobile communications.

The award recognizes ON Semiconductor's high quality, energy efficient and cost effective Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) devices and responsive services. ON Semiconductor tops more than 80 suppliers in the electronics industry to win the award, and is only one of the four companies to have won this elite award from Hisense.

“ON Semiconductor has always been our strategic supplier,” said Zhang Jiren, group vice president of Hisense. “In 2007, we together established a joint laboratory at our Qingdao research and development (R&D) center. Since then, ON Semiconductor’s resident field applications engineers (FAEs) at the lab have been playing an instrumental role in helping Hisense develop green efficient and energy saving power solutions for our TV products, especially LCD TVs. We thank ON Semiconductor’s outstanding contribution by supplying excellent solutions with innovative technology improvements at competitive costs.”

"We are thrilled to receive this prestigious award from Hisense, our longstanding strategic partner,” said David Chow, ON Semiconductor vice president of Sales for Asia Pacific. “This award further solidifies our position at Hisense and we are confident of growing this partnership with our expanded offerings from our acquisitions. Our investment commitment in China well positions us to continuously develop and provide high quality, cost effective solutions for our customers.”

About Hisense
As China’s leading home appliance brand, Hisense has sales revenue of 48.9 billion yuan, and came out on top in China's top 100 electronics information enterprises in 2008. On January 9, 2009, Hisense was awarded the "Global TV Brand Top 7" by launching one of the world’s thinnest LED LCD TV. Hisense was also awarded "Top 10 CE Brand from China" for the third consecutive year and also successfully won the "Global CE Brands Top 50” award. Hisense’s LCD TV production reached 2.3 million sets in the first half of 2009 and increased by 220 percent year-on-year.

About ON Semiconductor
With its global logistics network and strong product portfolio, ON Semiconductor (Nasdaq: ONNN - News) is a preferred supplier of high performance, energy efficient, silicon solutions to customers in the power supply, automotive, communication, computer, consumer, medical, industrial, mobile phone, and military/aerospace markets. The company's broad portfolio includes power, analog, DSP, mixed-signal, advance logic, clock management, non-volatile memory and standard component devices. The company operates a network of manufacturing facilities, sales offices and design centers in key markets throughout North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific regions. For more information, visit https://www.onsemi.com.

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