Catalyst Tiger Selected by UTAC; Catalyst Family Expands in the Subcontractor Market

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 12, 2000--Teradyne, Inc. (NYSE: TER) announced today that United Test Assembly Center (UTAC), a leading subcontractor of packaging and test services for SOC, logic, and memory devices, has chosen Catalyst Tiger for testing high-performance SOC devices. Catalyst Tiger combines high- performance digital at speeds above 1 Gbps and leading Teradyne Catalyst analog instrumentation. UTAC has also purchased multiple Catalyst systems, expanding the company's capacity for testing communications, multimedia, and storage devices.

Economics is a key driver in the subcontractor industry. The test speed and configuration flexibility of Tiger systems is a requirement to meet the production demands of multiple customers. Test speed, performance, and flexibility make Tiger a cost-efficient platform for subcontractors.

"We have had substantial growth since we commenced operations in January 1999 and expect to continue our rapid growth in the SOC and mixed signal device market," said Albert Ng, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for UTAC. "Catalyst has enabled us to win key customers in the broadband communications market. With the addition of Tiger, we are positioned to support our growing customer base in the performance SOC market."

Teradyne brings together the successful Catalyst parallel processing architecture and integrated analog instrumentation with new high speed digital, scan, and memory test in the Tiger system. The flexibility of Tiger allows customers to configure their system to meet the test needs of a broad range of devices. Whether testing high performance network processors or multi-site communications and disk drive devices, Tiger has digital speeds from 300 MHz to 1.6 Gbps and analog instrumentation from audio to microwave combined in a high throughput architecture.

"We continue to expand our capabilities to meet our customers' needs. UTAC's partnership with Teradyne helps us to provide world class service and support to our customers," said YH Chok, UTAC Vice President of Product and Test Engineering.

"We are excited to be part of UTAC's success in the rapidly expanding subcontractor market." Phil Smith, Teradyne's Strategic Marketing Manager, continues, "Teradyne's growing presence in the subcontractor market proves we have the right product with the right economics. Our partnership continues to grow as both companies strive to meet the time-to-market, flexibility, and cost needs in this highly competitive market."

About Catalyst

Catalyst continues to be the first choice in SOC test capability for DSL, wireless, microwave, and power management applications as well as the economic leader, introducing parallel SOC test. If you made a cell call, used your PC, printed or scanned a document, got paged, or watched a DVD, you used Catalyst tested ICs.

Catalyst Tiger is the first over 1 Gbps SOC test system. Extending the Catalyst family, Tiger shares the same high throughput zero-time DSP architecture, IMAGE(TM) software, and state-of-the-art analog instrumentation and extends the Catalyst family to 1024 digital pins. Powered by breakthrough Silicon Germanium (SiGe) technology, Tiger sets a new digital performance standard with full I/O data rates to 1.6 Gbps while retaining the timing flexibility at top speed demanded by chipset and network processing applications.

About UTAC

United Test and Assembly Center Ltd. (UTAC), founded in November 1997, is a world-class semiconductor services provider, partnering with customers to develop and provide semiconductor service solutions. UTAC, ISO 9002 certified, provides one-stop semiconductor assembly and testing services for memory, logic and mixed signal devices. UTAC's assembly and test services address a full range of packages, including TSOP, QFP, LQFP, FBGA, PBGA, QFN, LCC and EBGA. The company's headquarters, housing a 390,000 square foot test/assembly area and 50,000 square foot cleanroom, is located in Singapore. More information about the company, its products, and services may be obtained from the worldwide web at http://www.utac.com.sg.

About Teradyne

Teradyne is the world's largest supplier of automatic test equipment and related software for the electronics and telecommunications industries and a leading supplier of high-performance backplane assemblies and connectors. Teradyne supports its products through an extensive service and applications engineering network, with technical centers located throughout the United States, Europe, and the Pacific Rim. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Teradyne reported sales of approximately $1.8 billion in 1999 and currently has about 8,000 employees worldwide. Teradyne's World Wide Web address is http://www.teradyne.com.

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“Catalyst has enabled us to win key customers in the broadband communications market. With the addition of Tiger, we are positioned to support our growing customer base in the performance SOC market.”