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2017 Annual Report CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS – USA 333 W. San Carlos Street, Ste 1000 San Jose, CA 95110 Tel: 408‐280‐7900 Fax: 408‐280‐7915 Starting September 1, 2018 2858 De La Cruz Boulevard Santa Clara, California 95050 OTHER OFFICE LOCATIONS USA 2840 Liberty Ave., Suite 204 PDF SOLUTIONS 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 2017 ANNUAL PDF SOLUTIONS Pittsburgh, PA 15222 101 West Renner Road, Suite 315 Richardson, TX 75082 4660 La Jolla Village Drive, Suite 730 San Diego, CA 92122 China 4F, No. 1779 Siping Road Yangpu, Shanghai 200433 2017 Annual Report France 45 Place Jacques Mirouze, Espace Pitot 34000 Montpellier Germany Schwanthalerstrasse 10 Munich, D‐80336 Italy Via Roma, 10 25015 Desenzano del Garda (Brescia) Japan Avenue‐Takanawa 711, 3‐25‐27 Takanawa, Minato‐ku, Tokyo, 108‐0074 Republic of Korea 4th floor, Room 406, U‐Space2A 670, Daewang Pangyo‐ro, Bundang‐gu Seongnam‐si, Gyeonggi‐do Taiwan (R.O.C.) 5F‐3, No.38, Taiyuan St. Zhubei City, Hsinchu County 302 PDF Solutions, Inc. 2017 Annual Report F E L L O W S T O C K H O L D E R S : C O R P O R A T E I N F O R M A T I O N During 2017, PDF Solutions made further strides toward achieving our key goals of expanding our addressable market and diversifying our customer C O R P O R A T E I N F O R M A T I O N base. We continue to pursue these goals by focusing efforts around the following key strategic initiatives: MANAGEMENT TEAM BOARD OF DIRECTORS ANNUAL MEETING John K. Kibarian, Ph.D. Lucio L. Lanza OF STOCKHOLDERS 1. Commercialization of our Design‐for‐Inspection™ (or DFI™) solution. Chief Executive Officer,MANAGEMENT TEAM Chairman, PDF Solutions,BOARD OF Inc.; DIRECTORS Tuesday, May 29,ANNUAL 2018 MEETING 2. Deeper penetration of our Exensio® platform across the semiconductor supply chain. President and CoJohn‐Founder K. Kibarian, Ph.D. Managing Director,Lucio L. Lanza PDF Solutions, Inc.OF STOCKHOLDERS 3. Expanded adoption of all of our solutions in the China semiconductor market. Chief Executive Officer, Lanza techVentures;Chairman, PDF Solutions, Inc.; 333 W. San CarlosTuesday, street, May 29, 2018 4. Expanded use of our core CV®‐based Integrated Yield Ramp (or IYR) solution beyond leading edge technology nodes into mature Director of several private Suite 1000 Gregory Walker President and Co‐Founder Managing Director, PDF Solutions, Inc. nodes. This includes Template™ technology for DFI. companies San Jose, CA 95110 Vice President, Finance and Lanza techVentures; 333 W. San Carlos street, Director of several private Suite 1000 Chief Financial OfficerGregory Walker The purpose of the first initiative above has been to develop and deploy a new solution based on electrical characterization for inspection. Our intent companies San Jose, CA 95110 is to allow foundries to inspect 3‐D Characterization Vehicle® test structures for a common data link between design layout patterns and in‐fab Vice President, Finance and Joseph R. Bronson EXCHANGE AND STOCK Principal and Chief Executive Officer, process control. Our DFI™ solution has three major components, which have been co‐designed for optimal results: Andrzej Strojwas,Chief Ph.D. Financial Officer MARKET LISTING Bronson Group LLC;Joseph Strategic R. Bronson Advisor to EXCHANGE AND STOCK Chief Technologist Nasdaq Stock Market: PDFS Cowen & Co.; DirectorPrincipal of severaland Chief public Executive Officer, Andrzej Strojwas, Ph.D. MARKET LISTING CV® test structures, which are placed on test chips, scribe lines, or directly in customer products on wafers; and private companies;Bronson Former Group CFOLLC; Strategic Advisor to Nasdaq Stock Market: PDFS e‐beam inspection tools designed specifically to measure the CV® test structures at high speed; and, Kimon Michaels,Chief Ph.D. Technologist Applied Materials,Cowen Inc. & Co.; Director of several publicTRANSFER AGENT AND a complete Exensio® Big Data analytics platform aimed at identifying critical electrical performance issues within the data collected. Vice President, Products and and private companies; Former CFO REGISTRAR Solutions and Co‐Founder Applied Materials, Inc. Computershare InvestorTRANSFER Services AGENT AND Kimon Michaels, Ph.D. Marco Iansiti 462 South 4th Street, Suite 1600 Today, our CV® test structures for DFI have been embedded in more than 100 chip designs, and in 2017, development of our eProbe® 250 – our 2nd Vice President, Products and Professor, Business Administration and REGISTRAR generation solution – passed the critical milestone of processing customer wafers at our clean room facility in Milpitas, California. With a goal of Solutions and Co‐Founder Louisville, KY 40202Computershare Investor Services Cornelis (Cees) Hartgring, Ph.D. Head of TechnologyMarco and Iansiti Operations measuring billions of test structures in 1‐ 2 hours, the eProbe® 250 is designed for in‐line production, while the eProbe® 150 is well suited for R&D 462 South 4th Street, Suite 1600 Vice President, Management UnitProfessor, and the DigitalBusiness Initiative, Administration and Louisville, KY 40202 and production ramp. Client Services andCornelis Sales (Cees) Hartgring, Ph.D.Harvard BusinessHead School of Technology and Operations LEGAL COUNSEL Vice President, Management Unit and the Digital Initiative,Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP In terms of the second initiative above, 2017 was another strong year for our Exensio® Big Data analytics platform, where we: Client Services and Sales Harvard Business School 1000 Marsh RoadLEGAL COUNSEL KwangHyun Kim, Ph.D. John K. Kibarian, Ph.D. Menlo Park, CA 94025Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP Vice President, Business Chief Executive Officer, expanded our footprint within existing Exensio® customers, for example by applying our technology across design, process development, Development, PDF Solutions 1000 Marsh Road KwangHyun Kim, Ph.D. President and CoJohn‐Founder K. Kibarian, Ph.D. fabrication, assembly and test at foundry customers; Semiconductor TechnologyVice President, Korea Business Menlo Park, CA 94025 Chief Executive Officer, INDEPENDENT AUDITORS added 40 new customers, including at key points across the semiconductor supply chain; and, Limited Development, PDF Solutions PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Kimon Michaels,President Ph.D. and Co‐Founder expanded the technology and market breadth of the overall Exensio® solution, for example with the addition, during the year, of the ALPS™ Semiconductor Technology Korea Ten Almaden BoulevardINDEPENDENT AUDITORS Vice President, Products and software, which enables us to now provide die‐level traceability across the supply chain. Limited Suite 1600 PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Solutions and CoKimon‐Founder Michaels, Ph.D. San Jose, CA 95113Ten Almaden Boulevard Vice President, Products and Suite 1600 With the rising costs of both “at customer” failures and embedded counterfeit components, product authentication and traceability down the vertical Solutions and Co‐Founder supply chain is rapidly becoming a critical issue for the industry. Greatly enhanced data analytic capabilities is going to be a fundamental requirement INVESTOR RELATIONSSan Jose, CA 95113 for all players in the industry and we are positioning Exensio® to become the premier application for the semiconductor market. PDF Solutions, Inc. 333 W. San CarlosINVESTOR Street, Suite RELATIONS 1000 We made good progress on the third initiative above with China accounting for over 15% of our total revenue in 2017 – which is up from virtually San Jose, CA 95110PDF Solutions, Inc. 333 W. San Carlos Street, Suite 1000 zero in prior years – however, our growth was not as rapid as we had planned. This was primarily because, while investment levels in the Starting September 1, 2018 semiconductor industry by Chinese governmental agencies and private investors continued to be strong, the majority of the early investments in San Jose, CA 95110 2858 De La Cruz Blvd China have been concentrated on the fabless market and local entities of foreign multinationals. We believe, however, that we are on track to Santa Clara, CaliforniaStarting 95050 September 1, 2018 establish PDF Solutions as a key partner of the semiconductor development and manufacturing process industry in China as investment levels in these 2858 De La Cruz Blvd areas increase over the next few years. Tel: +1 408 283 5606Santa Clara, California 95050 Fax: +1 408 280 7915 Progress in 2017 on the fourth initiative above was slower than we expected, primarily because the market leader in logic foundry drove the http://www.pdf.comTel: +1 408 283 5606 introduction of new, higher‐performing derivatives of advanced nodes, such as 28 nanometers, at a pace faster that our customer base was able to Fax: +1 408 280 7915 achieve. While we did sign multiple engagements with several customers involving our IYR technology for these mature nodes, our customers http://www.pdf.com experienced weaker volumes and sales, reduced capital spending in logic, and slowed R&D development, which resulted in lower financial results related to our IYR solution. As we move forward, key to success at this initiative will be providing our customers better solutions to compete against the market leader, while continuing to advance our technology for the advanced nodes. Additionally, we must balance our resources to match the Safe Harbor Statement rapidly evolving marketplace. With the exception of historical facts, the statements in this Report are forward‐looking and subject to the Safe Harbor provisions created by the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities ExchangeSafe Harbor Act Statement of 1934, as amended. These statements
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