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2007

  • Sapphire platform won Semiconductor International Editors’ Choice Best Product Award; the only test system named among 2007 nominees.
  • 3000th ASL Series test system shipped.
  • Sapphire D-6432DFT test solution released to meet rising demand for faster data rates; cost of test cut by up to 82% for AMD.
  • ELMOS selected Credence platform to effectively test semiconductors for automotive devices.
  • Expanded analytical products portfolio helps semiconductor manufacturers improve yields at 45nm and beyond.
  • Diamond MultiWave instrument released, enabling cost-effective multi-site mixed-signal test of highly integrated SoC/SiP devices.
  • Industry veteran Toshi Yamanouchi joined Credence team to head up Japanese operations.

2006

  • Announced Meridian, next generation IC electrical failure analysis platform combining an emission microscope and a laser scanning microscope.
  • Sapphire platform named tester of record for NVIDIA handheld graphics processor and microprocessor business units.
  • Announced Diamond 40 for unparalleled test efficiency and RF test capabilities for advanced consumer devices.
  • AMD standardized on Credence Sapphire system for end-to-end test of next-generation processors.
  • Diamond 10 won "Best in Test" award from Test & Measurement World.

2005

  • Installed Taiwan's first complete fault analysis lab for advanced design debug and characterization at VIA Technologies.
  • Introduced Diamond 10 for cost-sensitive consumer ICs.
  • Partnered With North China University of Technology to Establish Engineering Training Center.
  • Formed Credence Spirox Integration Corporation in Taiwan.
  • Won Intel's Preferred Quality Supplier Award.

2004

  • Introduced GlobalScan system for design marginality and failure localization.
  • Won 'Best in Test Award' from Test & Measurement World magazine for EmiScope.
  • Opened new corporate headquarters in Milpitas, California.

2003

  • Established Centers of Excellence (COE) program for application support and technology development.
  • Partnered with Hong Kong Science and Technology Park Corporation to support Hong Kong's fabless community.
  • Introduced industry's most advanced photon-probing solution for silicon debug.
  • Introduced industry's first complete design debug and verification solution.
  • Opened office in Shanghai, China.

2002

  • Introduced Linux controller for digital engineering validation test system.
  • Introduced configurable SoC platform.
  • Introduced ASL 3000RF, high-volume production test system for RFICs.
  • Introduced engineering validation test system for mixed-signal and SoC devices.

2001

  • Introduced thermal control socket system.
  • Recognized as the only ATE Manufacturer in Forbes ASAP's 'Dynamic 100'

2000

  • Declared a 2 for 1 stock split in the form of a stock dividend of the company's common stock.

1999

  • Opened its engineering and manufacturing campus in Hillsboro, Oregon.
  • Introduced PLLBOST (phase lock loop BOST) capability for volume testing of mixed-signal devices.

1998

  • Introduced BOST (built-off chip self-test) methodology for testing embedded memory.

1997

  • Introduced system for flash memory test.
  • Introduced RF test system.

1996

  • Introduced tester-in-a-handler system.

1995

  • Shipped its first digital mixed-signal test system.
  • Declared a 3-for-2 stock split in the form of a 50% stock dividend of the Company's common stock.
  • Held its third public offering of 2,010,000 shares of common stock at $28.75 per share.

1994

  • Held its secondary public offering of 2,500,000 shares of common stock at $20.75 per share.

1993

  • Reincorporated as a Delaware Corporation and held its initial public offering of 2,500,000 shares of common stock at $12.00 per share. The company's stock is quoted on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol CMOS.

1992

  • hipped its first SC 212 and Vista test systems.

1991

  • Acquired an Oregon-based Semiconductor Test Systems division of Tektronix, significantly increasing the size of Credence, and providing a 50 MHz VLSI, high-bandwidth test solution, the LT Series.. The acquisition brought with it Tektronix's proprietary CMOS stabilization (through thermal compensation) technology.

1990

  • STS/Axiom/ASIX became known as Credence Systems Corporation.

1989

  • Acquired ASIX Systems Corporation, a California-based producer of verification testers aimed primarily at complex ASICs and a developer of an innovative, proprietary CMOS stabilization (through voltage compensation) technology. In October 1989, STS acquired ASIX in a stock for stock exchange.

1988

  • Acquired Axiom Technology, Inc., a Massachusetts-based manufacturer of mixed-signal test systems, in a stock for stock exchange.

1987

  • Introduced its STS 8000 Series test systems.

1985

  • Shipped first product, which included a programming workstation and design verification hardware.

1982

  • Incorporated in California to succeed the business of the sole proprietorship established by Mees.

1978

  • Founded by David J. Mees as Semiconductor Test Solutions, Inc. (STS).