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Boston MicroSystems (BMS) partners with AMS for fabrication and design of life-saving sensors for homeland security

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Advanced MicroSensors Providing Volume Shipments of Recording Heads for Tandberg Storage's TS400 Tape Drive

SHREWSBURY, MA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 10/05/2005 -- Advanced MicroSensors, Inc. (AMS) the world leader in magneto-resistive (MR) tape heads today announced that it is supplying MR recording head components for Tandberg Storage's Half Height LTO2 tape drive TS400. This drive is also sold through Tandberg Data under the model name Tandberg 420LTO.

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Advanced MicroSensors Achieves ISO 9001:2000 Registration

SHREWSBURY, MA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- Nov 22, 2004 -- Advanced MicroSensors, Inc., a leading manufacturer of tape head and MEMS devices has received ISO 9001:2000 certification by National Quality Assurance, USA. For AMS, the receipt of ISO 9001:2000, the most widely recognized international standard for quality management systems, was an important step in the company's continuing commitment to its customers.

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Tim Stucchi's Interview with Wall Street Reporter Magazine

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Advanced MicroSensors Announces Patent on Large-Stroke Electro-Magnetic Micro-Actuator Device Platform

SHREWSBURY, MA -- May 10, 2004 -- Advanced MicroSensors, Inc. (AMS), a manufacturer of thin film magnetic micro-components, announced the issuance of a patent (U.S. 6,717,227) related to the design and architecture of low-voltage large-stroke electro-magnetic micro-actuators. This patent is the first in a series of co-pending AMS applications related to the novel device platform.

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Advanced MicroSensors Provides MR Tape Head Components for Quantum's New, High Performing SDLT 600 Tape Drive

SHREWSBURY, MA -- February 2, 2004 -- Advanced MicroSensors, Inc. (AMS), an established supplier of magneto-resistive (MR) tape heads and Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) related products, announced today that it has successfully completed qualification and is providing, with Lafé Technology Ltd., the MR tape heads for Quantum Corporation's SDLT 600 tape drives.

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Advanced MicroSensors joins Multi-Terabyte Tape Storage ATP

SHREWSBURY, MA -- September 8, 2003 -- Advanced MicroSensors, Inc. (AMS), a leading supplier of magneto-resistive (MR) tape heads and micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) products, today announced that it has joined the Multi-terabyte Tape Storage consortium.

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A Delicious Idea -- But It May Be Too Pricey To Be Palatable

SMALL TIMES -- July 8, 2003 -- Commercializing RF MEMS components at Advanced Microsensors and elsewhere. AMS is one of the featured companies working on the economics of RF MEMS devices.

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Lew Frauenfelder, Storage Industry Executive, Joins Advanced MicroSensors' Board of Directors

SHREWSBURY, MA -- July 7, 2003 -- Advanced MicroSensors, Inc. (AMS), a leading supplier of magneto-resistive (MR) tape heads and micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) products, today announced that Lew Frauenfelder has joined the Companyis Board of Directors.

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Advanced MicroSensors and Quantum Sign Preferred Designation Supplier Agreement

SHREWSBURY, MA -- June 30, 2003 -- Advanced MicroSensors, Inc. (AMS), a leading supplier of magneto-resistive (MR) tape heads and micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) products, today announced that it has signed a Preferred Supplier Designation Agreement with Quantum Corporation to fabricate thin-film recording tape head components for Quantumis complete line of ValueDLTtape™ and SuperDLTtape™ drives.

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Read/Write Heads Teach Advanced Microsensors Small Tech 'Rithmatic

SMALL TIMES -- May 19, 2003 - Read/Write know-how leads to MEMS business at Advanced Microsensors. Feature article on AMS, its roots and its belief in the MEMS industry.

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DARPA selects Radant MEMS for multi-million dollar RF MEMS Improvement Program Contract; Advanced MicroSensors is major subcontractor

STOW, MA -- November 25, 2002 - Radant MEMS, Inc. (RMI) today announced that they have been awarded a contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to participate in its RF Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) Improvement Program, targeted at delivering highly reliable, high frequency RF MEMS switches and related components for a variety of military and commercial applications. RMI provides RF MEMS device design, development, assembly, packaging, test and applications engineering. RMI has selected Advanced MicroSensors, Inc. (AMS), Shrewsbury, MA as a major subcontractor.

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Advanced MicroSensors Begins Volume Shipments of MR Tape Head Components for Quantum's SDLT 320 Tape Drive.

SHREWSBURY, MA -- August 5, 2002 - Advanced MicroSensors, Inc. (AMS), a growing supplier of magneto-resistive (MR) tape heads and Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) related products, today announced that it has successfully completed qualification and is shipping MR tape heads to Quantum Corporation for use in its SDLT 320 tape drive.

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Advanced MicroSensors Begins Volume Shipments Of MR Tape Head Components For Tandberg Data's SLR100 Tape Drive

SHREWSBURY, MA -- March 11, 2002 - Advanced MicroSensors, Inc. (AMS), a rapidly growing supplier of Micro-ElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) related products and magneto-resistive (MR) tape heads, today announced that it has successfully completed qualification and is shipping significant volumes of MR tape heads to Benchmark Storage Innovations, Inc., the source for unique storage innovations that manage and protect customer data for its recently announced ValuSmart Tape™ 80 half-high DLT tape drive.

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Advanced MicroSensors Begins Volume Shipments of MR Tape Head Components for Quantum Corporation's Super DLTtape Drive

SHREWSBURY, MA -- October 9, 2001 - Advanced MicroSensors, Inc. (AMS), a rapidly growing supplier of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) related products and magneto-resistive (MR) tape heads, today announced that it has successfully completed qualification and is shipping MR tape heads to Quantum Corporation for the Super DLTtape drive program.

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Advanced MicroSensors Begins Volume Shipments of MR Tape Head Components for Benchmark Storage Innovation's ValuSmart Tape 80 Drive

SHREWSBURY, MA -- May 1, 2001 - Advanced MicroSensors, Inc. (AMS), a rapidly growing supplier of Micro-ElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) related products and magneto-resistive (MR) tape heads, today announced that it has successfully completed qualification and is shipping significant volumes of MR tape heads to Benchmark Storage Innovations, Inc., the source for unique storage innovations that manage and protect customer data for its recently announced ValuSmart Tape™ 80 half-high DLT tape drive.

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Advanced MicroSensors Completes Second Round of Financing

Advanced MicroSensors, Inc. (AMS), a privately held company established to develop and manufacture Micro-ElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) related products and magneto-resistive (MR) thin-film tape heads, today announced that it has completed a second round of financing for $8M. FITEL Technologies, Inc. and Lafé Holdings Ltd., participated in the second round of financing.

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Fitel Technologies Invests in Advanced MicroSensors to Expand Focus in MEMS Development

Fitel Technologies, Inc., in pursuit of establishing an increased presence in the MEMS market place, has made an equity investment in Advanced MicroSensors (AMS) of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. AMS will be responsible for the co-development, manufacturing and fabrication of Fitel's micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) related products.