ATE industry streamlines to survive: operational focus is now on reducing costs and increasing responsiveness.(Capital Equipment)

Electronic Business | December 1, 2005| | Copyright

Automatic test equipment (ATE) manufacturers Advantest, Agilent, Credence and Teradyne have been battling for market share in a highly competitive, yet fairly flat and stagnant, market since 2001. Now that the market is maturing, most of these companies are busy streamlining their operations to survive.

ATE is used to test attributes of various IC devices, such as logic, discrete, memory and linear/mixed-signal devices as well as SoCs. The world semiconductor ATE market generated revenues of $3.6 billion in 2004, boasting a 3.7 percent growth rate, according to a ...

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