Global Unichip Adds Verigy V101 as a Test Solution for Low-Cost, High-Volume Consumer Devices

Verigy (NASDAQ:VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, today announced that Global Unichip Corp. (GUC; TW:3443), a leading system-on-a-chip (SOC) design foundry, has chosen the Verigy V101, a new low-cost, zero-footprint, 100 MHz system as one of its future platforms for testing development. GUC intends to use the V101 for its higher parallelism and throughput, and its ease-of-use makes software and test program development more cost-effective.

"As a leading design foundry, GUC designs complicated SOC devices with millions of gates and high-speed interfaces,” said Jerry Tzou, GUC’s vice president of product operations. “We already use Verigy’s V93000 platform for testing our customers’ complex SOCs. As a long-standing Verigy customer, we are pleased to partner with the company to provide more value to our end customers with the V101, which provides the efficiency and ease-of-use that are critical for this segment."

"Verigy’s history of innovation allows us to deliver the best solutions in the industry,” said Pascal Ronde, vice president of sales, support and service, Verigy. “With the addition of the V101, we have expanded our SOC served available market by $400 million in 2010, based on market figures from leading analysts. We are pleased that GUC has recognized that the V101 may offer better overall value and we look forward to strengthening our relationship with GUC as they endeavor to drive the V101 downstream.”

Industry’s Best Solution for the Cost-Sensitive Market

The V101 is designed to deliver effective and economical production testing of very-low-cost IC devices used in a wide variety of low-end mobile communications and consumer products. The V101 operates at up to a 100 MHz clock rate with up to 1,024 I/O channels delivering the performance needed to effectively and economically test today’s most cost-sensitive ICs and microcontrollers.

Its unique Tester-on-BoardTM architecture simplifies the tester hardware and configuration by placing the digital and DC resources directly on the board. This architecture supports multi-site efficiency with high throughput at lower test costs. The V101 uses standardized components that make it easy to setup and maintain, while its architecture makes it easy to expand or reduce capacity on the V101 as customers’ requirements change.

It is the only test system on the market today optimized for wafer sort with a direct probing feature, resulting in a significant cost savings, greater signal fidelity and simplified production setup at wafer sort.

The V101 uses Verigy’s proven StylusTM operating system software, which is easy to learn and use. Stylus features direct EDA links for shorter program development time. Its STIL-based test programming simplifies test conversions of other STIL-based programs and, when combined with deep vector and capture memories, helps to reduce program development time significantly.

More information is available at www.verigy.com/go/v101.

About Global Unichip Corp.

Global Unichip Corp. (GUC, TW:3443), a dedicated one-stop, full service SoC (System On Chip) Design Foundry, was founded in 1998 at Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan. With close to U.S. $300 million revenue in 2008 and 400+ people on its engineering team, GUC provides total solutions from silicon-proven IP to complex time-to-market SoC design, production, and testing services. With an experienced technical team, GUC ensures the highest quality and lowest risks to achieve first silicon success. GUC has established a global customer base throughout Greater China, Japan, Korea, North America, and Europe. Its track-record in complex SoC designs has brought benefits to customers in time to revenue at the lowest risk. With TSMC as the major shareholder, GUC has close and complementary relationships with other key packaging and testing partners to be further committed to presenting the most advanced and the best price-performance silicon solutions. For more information, please visit http://www.globalunichip.com.

About Verigy

Verigy provides advanced semiconductor test systems and solutions used by leading companies worldwide in design validation, characterization, and high-volume manufacturing test. Verigy offers scalable platforms for a wide range of SOC test solutions, and memory test solutions for Flash, DRAM including high-speed memories, as well as multi-chip packages (MCP). Verigy provides advanced analysis tools that accelerate design debug and yield ramp processes. Additional information about Verigy can be found at www.verigy.com.

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