HSIN CHU, TAIWAN, Oct. 15 -- Kulicke & Soffa Industries today opened a state-of-the-art probe card manufacturing facility here, a move designed to boost the company's presence in the vertical probe card market.  

The plant has 2,400 sq. meters of floor space and will build enhanced cantilever probe cards. It can also handle probe wire diameters from 75 to 250 microns and very fine pitch probing.

The factory will follow K&S' "copy exact" manufacturing model.

Production on after-sales support center for repair and rebuild services in its final stages, the company said.