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Data I/O Corporation: Data I/O Announces New Sales Representative Partnership With Matthew Associates in New England Region

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^{Published in Science and Technology on Thursday, January 15th 2009 at 5:54 GMT, Last Modified on 2009-01-15 05:55:27 by Market Wire}  

REDMOND, WA--(Marketwire - January 15, 2009) - Data I/O Corporation (NASDAQ: [ DAIO ]), the leading provider of manual and automated device programming solutions, announced the company completed a sales representative agreement with Matthew Associates.

Headquartered in Waban, Massachusetts, Matthew Associates will represent Data I/O in Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. With over fifteen years serving the New England manufacturing and testing industry, Matthew Associates' philosophy is to work with their principals to develop solutions designed to achieve their customers' individual goals.

"We are excited to collaborate with Matthew Associates and their customers in the New England region," notes David Boak, Director of Sales, Americas at Data I/O. "Together, with Matthew Associates' expertise in full line manufacturing implementation and processes and Data I/O's breadth of programming platforms and software solutions, we are able to help our customers overcome the critical challenges they face in both engineering and manufacturing environments."

Additional company information is available at [ www.matthewassociates.com ]

About Data I/O

With over 35 years of expertise in delivering intellectual property to programmable devices, Data I/O offers complete, integrated manufacturing solutions in wireless, automotive, programming center, semiconductor, and industrial control market segments for OEM, ODM, EMS and semiconductor companies. Data I/O provides hardware and software solutions for turn-key programming and device testing services, as well as in-system (on-board), in-line (right before use at the SMT line), or in-socket (off-line) programming with special manufacturing options such as serialization, traceability, version control, statistical data logging, co-planarity test, and bad block management. These solutions are scalable for small, medium and large volume applications with different device mixes. For further information on Data I/O, please visit [ www.dataio.com ] or call 800-426-1045.