STATS ChipPAC Purchases Multiple Verigy Port Scale RF Solutions,
Honors Verigy With a Top Supplier Award
CUPERTINO, CA, June 24, 2008
Verigy (NASDAQ:VRGY - News), a semiconductor test company, announced that STATS ChipPAC Ltd. (SGX:STATSChP) has purchased the Verigy Port Scale RF solutions for testing highly integrated wireless RF devices. These devices address the functional needs of the market characterized by the latest technology, wireless standards, and quick time to market. Verigy recently was honored with an Outstanding Overall Service Award by STATS ChipPAC for exemplary service and performance to the company and its customers by demonstrating excellence in quality, on-time delivery, technology, service, flexibility, and cost competitiveness.
STATS ChipPAC, a service provider of semiconductor assembly and test solutions, offers a full suite of solutions and test platforms to address and support its customers’ requirements for the highly integrated devices being manufactured today to power the next generation of mobile consumer electronics devices. The addition of the Port Scale RF solution provides highly efficient multisite testing of integrated devices containing RF, mixed-signal, digital, power management, and embedded or stacked memory, with the required port counts.
“Verigy’s Port Scale RF solution will help position STATS ChipPAC with capability to meet current and future demand for quick ramp-up and volume manufacturing of our customers’ advanced RF devices,” said Wan Choong Hoe, executive vice president and CEO, STATS ChipPAC. “We value Verigy as an important technology supplier of superior test solutions. Over the many years of our business relationship, Verigy has become an invaluable partner as well.”
“The RF test market today demands high parallelism and high performance in a production-worthy solution. With this installation of Port Scale RF systems, STATS ChipPAC is well positioned to lead in this growing market segment,” said Pascal Rondé, vice president of sales, service, and support, Verigy. “By working closely with their world-class R&D test team, we are able to help STATS ChipPAC achieve differentiation in the marketplace. It is an honor to be recognized by STATS ChipPAC through their supplier award for excellence. We look forward to continuing our long, successful relationship.”
About the Verigy V93000
The Verigy V93000 provides a scalable platform architecture for testing SOCs, systems-in-package (SIPs), and high-speed memory devices. The V93000, with more than 1,800 RF-ready systems installed worldwide, meets the industry’s performance and cost challenges for at-speed engineering characterization and high-volume production. The test system provides low cost-of-test with massive multisite capabilities and data rates up to 12.8 Gb/s and supports a full range of digital, mixed-signal, RF, and wireless applications such as cellular, WLAN, WiMAX, and UWB.
About STATS ChipPAC
STATS ChipPAC providers semiconductor packaging design, assembly, test, and distribution solutions in diverse end-market applications including communications, digital consumer, and computing. With global headquarters in Singapore, STATS ChipPAC has design, research and development, manufacturing, or customer support offices in 10 different countries.
www.statschippac.com .
About Verigy
Verigy designs, develops, manufactures, sells, and services advanced semiconductor test systems and solutions for the flash memory, high-speed memory, and SOC markets. Verigy’s scalable platforms are used by companies worldwide in design validation, characterization, and high-volume manufacturing test. Advanced analysis tools accelerate design debug and yield ramp processes for Verigy’s customers. Information about Verigy can be found at
www.verigy.com.