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Test Accessories
News Release from: Antares Advanced Test Technologies
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 02 March 2006
New name in ATE accessories market
UMD Technology has has integrated its three recent acquisitions and will go to market as UMD Advanced Test Technologies.
UMD Technology has has integrated its three recent acquisitions and will go to market as UMD Advanced Test Technologies With the integration of Wells-CTI, DB Design and Dimensions Consulting, UMD Advanced Test Technologies is the first back-end IC test consumables company to offer a single point of contact for burn-in sockets, ATE consumables and thermal management solutions
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 11 Nov 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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"The introduction of UMD Advanced Test Technologies is a serious response to the market's fervour to reduce the overall cost of semiconductor test".
"We believe in order to significantly reduce the cost of test, we as an industry must get smarter and offer innovative solutions that not only reduce the cost of capital, but dramatically improve yields".
"This will require a co-ordinated effort and expertise in a range of engineering and market segment disciplines", said UMD CEO Matt Bergeron.
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"Integration of like disciplines is no longer optional, we must pull from multiple areas of expertise to achieve the results the market requires".
Bringing together Wells-CTI, DB Design and Dimensions Consulting was a strategic undertaking that started in March of 2003 with the acquisition of Wells-CTI and closed last month with the purchase of Dimensions Consulting.
UMD is now ready to deliver a completely integrated set of test consumables and launch UMD Advanced Test Technologies.
"We can now offer an integrated package and support its solutions worldwide from qualification to production".
"UMD Advanced Test Technologies will be the first test supplier to offer integrated ATE consumables and the first to offer customers' a single point of contact for their test cell needs", said John Hartstein, VP of Sales and Marketing.
In today's semiconductor environment of rapidly increasing device complexity, only those companies that can continually improve yields are likely to survive.
UMD will target high-sensitivity areas like yield and the integration of like disciplines to significantly reduce the cost of test and get new devices to market faster.
"With the integration of Wells, DB and Dimensions Consulting, we will develop key centres of expertise that will allow us to attack high-sensitivity areas and introduce new solutions and technologies that the test and burn-in markets are demanding", said UMD Director of Marketing Mark Murdza.
"No one company is addressing a multitude of core key issues, or will for that matter".
"Reducing the cost of test will take a concentrated effort and expertise on multiple fronts".
"Test companies individually have made great strides".
"But as a whole, we believe the industry must offer smarter technology solutions and take a more integrated and customer friendly approach".
"Service and innovation is where UMD Advanced Test Technologies will excel", stated Murdza.
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