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Teradyne Celebrates Major Milestone; Ships 1000th Magnum Test System

Dépèche transmise le 12 juillet 2011 par Business Wire

Teradyne Celebrates Major Milestone; Ships 1000th Magnum Test System

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Teradyne, Inc. (NYSE:TER), announced the milestone shipment of its 1000^thMagnum test system to Atmel^® Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch solutions.

“Customer acceptance underscores the success of any product; and achieving this record milestone is a testimony to the reliability and longevity of Magnum’s architecture. Since its inception, Magnum continues to deliver sustained value by providing customers the best economics of test”

The milestone system is a 512 pin Magnum PV, and is part of a large system order from Atmel. The majority of this multi-system order has shipped with the remaining systems scheduled for delivery at the end of Q3, 2011. Atmel will utilize these systems at wafer sort for Flash, microcontroller and touch solution testing. Atmel, who also received the first Magnum production system shipped, is a long-term customer of Teradyne, and Nextest System Corporation, where Magnum was first introduced in 2004. Currently, Atmel has over 200 Magnums installed worldwide.

Tom Roff, Vice President of Worldwide Manufacturing for Atmel Corporation commented, “Teradyne’s Magnum test system provides us with a high level of productivity and efficiency and integrates well into our production process. Additionally, the architecture’s flexibility across a wide range of test solutions greatly reduces our operating and test costs—essential in this highly competitive market. This system will help better serve our customers and bring our products faster to market.”

“Customer acceptance underscores the success of any product; and achieving this record milestone is a testimony to the reliability and longevity of Magnum’s architecture. Since its inception, Magnum continues to deliver sustained value by providing customers the best economics of test,” commented Tim Moriarty, General Manager of Teradyne’s Memory Business Unit. “We are extremely proud of Magnum’s acceptance at Atmel as well as its success in the ATE marketplace.”

About Atmel

Atmel Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML) is a worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of microcontrollers, capacitive touch solutions, advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory and radio frequency (RF) components. Leveraging one of the industry's broadest intellectual property (IP) technology portfolios, Atmel is able to provide the electronics industry with complete system solutions focused on industrial, consumer, communications, computing and automotive markets. Atmel^® is a registered trademark of Atmel Corporation.

About Teradyne

Teradyne (NYSE:TER) is the leading supplier of Automatic Test Equipment used to test complex electronics used in the consumer electronics, automotive, computing, telecommunications, and aerospace and defense industries. In 2010, Teradyne had sales of $1.6 billion. For more information, visit www.teradyne.com. Teradyne® is a registered trademark of Teradyne, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. All product names are trademarks of Teradyne, Inc. (including its subsidiaries) or their respective owners.

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