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Vlsi Research Inc FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE VLSI RESEARCH INC 2007 VLSI Research Inc 10 BEST Awards for Test, Material Handling, and Assembly Equipment - Inovys, SUSS MicroTec, and Orthoydne achieve highest rankings Santa Clara, CA - June 18, 2007 - VLSI Research Inc is pleased to announce the winners of the coveted 2007 10 BEST suppliers for Test Equipment, Material Handling Equipment, and Assembly Equipment. Rankings are based on surveys returned from customers who represent 95% of the world’s total semiconductor market. Customers rated Inovys, SUSS MicroTec, and Orthodyne as the #1 supplier in each of their respective categories. A special mention of Orthodyne and Kulicke & Soffa is warranted since they achieved an average higher than 8.0 in the extremely competitive Assembly segment. In fact, the spread between first and tenth in the Assembly segment is only 0.73 points, compared to well over 1 point in most other 10 BEST lists. 2007 10 BEST TEST EQUIPMENT Overall Rank Company † Rating 1 Inovys Corporation 7.98 2 Nextest Systems Corporation 7.90 3 Advantest 7.49 4 LTX Corporation 7.48 5 Teradyne, Inc. 7.28 6 Verigy 6.94 7 Credence Systems Corporation 6.92 8 Yokogawa Electric Corporation 6.85 9 Eagle Test Systems, Inc. 6.78 10 FEI Company 6.71 2007 10 BEST 2007 10 BEST MATERIAL HANDLING EQUIPMENT ASSEMBLY EQUIPMENT Overall Overall Rank Company † Rank Company † Rating Rating 1 SUSS MicroTec 7.97 1 Orthodyne Electronics 8.36 2 Cascade Microtech, Inc. 7.63 2 Kulicke & Soffa Industries, Inc. 8.02 3 ACCRETECH-Tokyo Seimitsu Co., Ltd 7.63 3 ACCRETECH-Tokyo Seimitsu Co., Ltd 7.95 4 Advantest 7.48 4 HANMI Semiconductor 7.93 5 Seiko Epson Corporation 7.42 5 ICOS Vision Systems 7.93 6 Rasco GmbH 7.29 6 Advanced Dicing Technologies 7.76 7 Tokyo Electron Limited 7.21 7 Dage Precision Industries Ltd 7.73 8 Multitest 7.18 8 Asymtek, a Nordson company 7.72 9 Electroglas, Inc. 7.13 9 BE Semiconductor Industries N.V. 7.68 10 TESEC Corporation 6.79 10 ASM International N.V. 7.63 Test Equipment Suppliers Among the 10 BEST Test Equipment suppliers, Inovys attained the best scores in seven of the thirteen rating categories – cost of ownership, uptime, quality of results, field engineering support, support after sales, technical leadership, and commitment. Nextest claimed the top spot in the four categories of software, usable throughput, process support, and spares support. Advantest achieved the finest marks out of these ten companies for build quality and product performance. Most of the Test Equipment companies earned their peak ratings in the equipment performance criteria, but a few firms received their personal best in a customer service criteria - Nextest, LTX, and Verigy. The table below lists the highest-rated category for each individual company: Company Highest Rated Category Inovys Corporation Cost of ownership Nextest Systems Corporation Support after sales and commitment (two-way tie) Advantest Usable throughput LTX Corporation Support after sales Teradyne, Inc. Quality of results Verigy Product performance and technical leadership (two-way tie) Credence Systems Corporation Quality of results Yokogawa Electric Corporation Quality of results Eagle Test Systems, Inc. Quality of results FEI Company Quality of results Material Handling Equipment Suppliers Among the 10 BEST Material Handling Equipment suppliers, SUSS MicroTec reigned supreme in the three categories of field engineering support, technical leadership, and commitment. Cascade Microtech received the best scores in the three categories of uptime, quality of results, and support after sales. ACCRETECH-Tokyo Seimitsu captured the top marks in three categories as well - cost of ownership, build quality, and usable throughput. Advantest attained the highest scores in process support and spares support. Seiko Epson was rated the best out of these ten companies for product performance, while Rasco took top honors for software. The majority of the Material Handling Equipment companies excelled in the equipment performance criteria, but one of Rasco’s personal best categories was in a customer service criteria. The next table lists the best-rated category for each individual company: Company Highest Rated Category SUSS MicroTec Quality of results Cascade Microtech, Inc. Uptime ACCRETECH-Tokyo Seimitsu Co., Ltd Uptime Advantest Quality of results Seiko Epson Corporation Product performance Rasco GmbH Software and technical leadership (two-way tie) Tokyo Electron Limited Usable throughput Multitest Build quality Electroglas, Inc. Uptime TESEC Corporation Usable throughput Assembly Equipment Suppliers Among the 10 BEST Assembly Equipment suppliers, Orthodyne swept all six customer service categories with supreme scores in process support, field engineering support, spares support, support after sales, technical leadership, and commitment. Dage Precision Industries captured the top ratings in uptime, build quality, quality of results, and product performance. HANMI Semiconductor achieved the best results for software. ICOS Vision Systems topped the field in cost of ownership. Advanced Dicing Technologies took top honors for usable throughput. Orthodyne, Kulicke & Soffa, ACCRETECH-Tokyo Seimitsu, and ASM International rated stronger in the customer service traits than in equipment performance traits. The table below lists the top-rated category for each individual company: Company Highest Rated Category Orthodyne Electronics Support after sales Kulicke & Soffa Industries, Inc. Technical leadership ACCRETECH-Tokyo Seimitsu Co., Ltd Commitment HANMI Semiconductor Quality of results ICOS Vision Systems Uptime Advanced Dicing Technologies Usable throughput Dage Precision Industries Ltd Uptime Asymtek, a Nordson company Usable throughput BE Semiconductor Industries N.V. Quality of results ASM International N.V. Commitment This is the second announcement in a series of three press releases listing the 10 BEST companies in each competitive segment. The next release will announce the two Overall 10 BEST segments: Focused Suppliers and Large Suppliers of Chip Making Equipment. On July 18, 2007, VLSI Research will honor the number one ranked company in each of the 2007 10 BEST segments at an award ceremony. The ceremony will be held at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art at 8:45pm in conjunction with TheParty 2007 brought to you by PennWell (Solid State Technology & Advanced Packaging), Loomis Group, NY Loves Nanotech, Oerlikon and Hultquist Capital. Last year’s 10 BEST lists for Test & Material Handling and Assembly Equipment suppliers are shown below for reference. Prior years’ lists can be found at https://www.vlsiresearch.com in the Reference section under Press Releases for the Customer Satisfaction Survey. 2006 10 BEST TEST EQUIPMENT Overall Rank Company † Rating 1 Nextest Systems Corporation 7.95 2 Advantest 7.41 3 Inovys Corporation 7.35 4 Teradyne, Inc. 7.33 5 Credence Systems Corporation 7.32 6 Verigy / Agilent 7.26 7 FEI Company 7.01 8 SPEA 6.94 9 LTX Corporation 6.57 10 Testram Co., Ltd. 6.38 2006 10 BEST 2006 10 BEST MATERIAL HANDLING EQUIPMENT ASSEMBLY EQUIPMENT Overall Overall Rank Company † Rank Company † Rating Rating 1 SUSS MicroTec 8.02 1 ACCRETECH-Tokyo Seimitsu 8.28 2 Seiko Epson Corporation 7.59 2 HANMI Semiconductor 8.07 3 ACCRETECH-Tokyo Seimitsu 7.36 3 Orthodyne Electronics 8.01 4 Rasco GmbH 7.33 4 DISCO Corporation 7.99 5 Electroglas, Inc. 7.20 5 Towa Corporation 7.69 6 Multitest 7.17 6 ICOS Vision Systems Corporation NV 7.62 7 Advantest 7.16 7 ASM International N.V. 7.56 8 Tokyo Electron Limited 7.14 8 Alphasem 7.55 9 Shinano Electronics Co., Ltd. 7.10 9 Kulicke & Soffa 7.53 10 Cascade Microtech, Inc. 7.09 10 F & K Delvotec Bondtechnik GmbH 7.35 ABOUT THE SURVEY The VLSI Research annual Customer Satisfaction Survey on Chip Making Equipment is the only publicly available opportunity for chip manufacturers to provide feedback on their suppliers. The 10 BEST rankings award special recognition to the suppliers that are rated highest by their customers. The survey asks users of chip making equipment to rate their suppliers on a ten-point scale among thirteen categories that exemplify a supplier’s relationship with its customers. These thirteen categories include seven measures of equipment performance and six measures of customer service. Cost of ownership, uptime, software, build quality, usable throughput, quality of results achieved, and product performance are the equipment performance measures. Customer service measures include process support, field engineering support, spares support, support after sales, technical leadership in the supplier’s field, and the supplier’s overall commitment to supporting its customers’ needs. VLSI Research Inc conducts these surveys across sixty major equipment market segments and compiles competitive positioning reports for each segment. These sixty categories are grouped into the six major market categories of wafer processing equipment (small and large companies), test equipment, material handling equipment, process diagnostics equipment, and assembly equipment. The statistics were drawn from a distribution of 48,255 questionnaires sent worldwide by mail, email, and fax in six languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, German, and French. About one in sixteen industry employees received a survey. Virtually every chipmaker was given a chance to respond. Respondents returned surveys rating 4,594 equipment models. The companies that responded to VLSI Research’s customer satisfaction survey represented 95% of worldwide chip production in 2005. When calculating each of the thirteen separate categories previously mentioned, total responses comprised about 56,700 individual ratings across the categories, each on a scale of 1 through 10. Demographic distribution of the equipment ratings returned was 29.9% from North America, 20.5% from Europe, 12.9% from China, 8.4% from Taiwan, 8.1% from Japan, 6.0% from Korea, and 14.3% from all other areas of the world. There are two parts to the 10 BEST methodology. The first part is that the qualification rule for the 10 BEST Awards is based on the Respondents’ Share of Market statistic.
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