Teradyne

Teradyne NYSE: TER, a US company, is a supplier of automatic test equipment (ATE). As of 2005, it has the largest marketshare in the SOC market. The company's divisions, Broadband Test, Assembly Test, Semiconductor Test, and Vehicle Diagnostic Solutions, are organized by the products they develop and deliver. In 2003, Teradyne had sales of $US 1.4 billion, and as of 2006, employs about 3800 people worldwide. Teradyne laid off about 50 % of its wo... more

Teradyne NYSE: TER, a US company, is a supplier of automatic test equipment (ATE). As of 2005, it has the largest marketshare in the SOC market. The company's divisions, Broadband Test, Assembly Test, Semiconductor Test, and Vehicle Diagnostic Solutions, are organized by the products they develop and deliver. In 2003, Teradyne had sales of $US 1.4 billion, and as of 2006, employs about 3800 people worldwide. Teradyne laid off about 50 % of its workforce in the last 10 years. The Semiconductor Test Division manufactures test equipment used by integrated circuit manufacturers. As of 2006, Teradyne manufactures four principal tester families of testers known as the "Catalyst", "Tiger", "FLEX" and "UltraFLEX". These testers are used by semiconductor manufacturers to test and classify the individual devices ("dies") on a completed semiconductor wafer and then used again to retest the parts once they are enclosed in their final packaging. Tiger testers are capable of testing SOC (Mixed... less