PALO ALTO -- King Yuan Electronics Corp., an integrated back-end service provider in Taiwan,
has purchased an Agilent Technologies 93000 Pin Scale system to add to its Agilent
93000 installed base. The system will be used for testing complex SOCs
(systems-on-a-chip) for applications such as PCI Express, Serial ATA
and HyperTransport.
"We are
seeing a growing demand for the 93000 Pin Scale system, especially from
customers wanting faster and more economical test solutions for
high-complexity, high-accuracy SOC devices," said Gauss Chang, KYEC
assistant vice president in charge of sales, marketing and platform
evaluation. "We chose the 93000 Pin Scale system because it gives us
the flexibility to measure a wide range of devices with very high
accuracy at a low cost of test."
The system supports up to 2,048 pins -- enough for multisite test or
high-pin-count devices. The tester scales to 3.6 Gb/s to
address high-speed interface applications targeted for KYEC's
system.
ROCHESTER, NY -- Hover-Davis Inc., a provider of component feeders, will exclusively distribute the Laurier tray feeding product family to the worldwide end-user market. Terms were not disclosed.
Laurier’s OEM product offerings includes automated handling of JEDEC trays and
waffle packs.
"Our target is to offer a comprehensive
set of feeding solutions to the market,” said Roland Heitmann, Hover
Davis director of semiconductor feeding solutions. “By adding
the capability of handling JEDEC trays and waffle packs, we take
another significant step to being a complete feeding solution provider
for our customers.”
Laurier, part of Besi, manufactures back-end microelectronic assembly equipment.
TOYKO -- A pair of leading Japanese laminate suppliers are raising prices, according to a new report. In mid September, Matsushita Electric raised prices of
copper laminates and prepreg about 15%.