ASE Test Selects Teradyne`s Tiger for Improved Test Economics; Improved Economics Driven by Improved Test Performance

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 13, 2002--Teradyne, Inc. (NYSE:TER) announced today that the world's largest independent provider of semiconductor testing services, ASE Test Limited in Kaoshiung, Taiwan, has purchased multiple Tiger test systems. ASE Test will use Teradyne's Tiger to expand test solutions for a range of devices manufactured by their diverse customer base. Selection of the multiple test systems was based on the fast "time to market" capabilities of the high-performance Tiger. Tiger's unique combination of 3rd Generation SOC Architecture and TwinMode(TM) differential digital capability offers economical at-speed testing for emerging devices which include multiple high-speed data standards including USB2, 1 GHz DDR, HyperTransport(TM), and other LVDS and SerDes technologies.

"To be a leader in semiconductor test, we must continue to provide our customers with the latest testing technologies, like Gigabit differential bus testing, while maintaining our reputation as a high volume, low cost provider," said Mr. IL Lin, vice president, Engineering, ASE Test Limited. "The Tiger system gives us that unique advantage in this very competitive market."

"ASET has developed a reputation of leading the market in testing capability," said John Cheng, marketing manager, Teradyne, "and we are pleased that they have chosen the Tiger to strengthen their position in the semiconductor testing market."

About Tiger

The Catalyst Tiger is the first ATE Platform to combine next generation LVDS and SerDes production test capability in a true SOC system. Extending the Catalyst Family, Tiger shares the same high throughput zero-time DSP architecture, IMAGE(TM) software and state-of-the-art analog instruments and extends the Catalyst Family to 1024 digital pins. Powered by breakthrough Silicon Germanium (SiGe) technology, Tiger's TwinMode Pin Electronics set a new digital performance standard with full I/O data rates to 1.6 Gbps and configurability for single ended or differential testing, while retaining the timing flexibility at top speed demanded by chipset and network processing applications. The flexibility of Tiger allows customers to configure their system to provide complete test coverage while achieving maximum production throughput for a broad range of devices.

About ASE Test Limited

ASE Test Limited is the world's largest independent provider of semiconductor testing services. ASE Test provides customers with a complete range of semiconductor testing, including front-end engineering testing, wafer probing, final production testing of packaged semiconductors and other test-related services. ASE Test has been quoted on NASDAQ since 1996 under the symbol (ASTSF).

About Teradyne

Teradyne (NYSE:TER) is the world's largest supplier of automatic test equipment and is also a leading supplier of high performance interconnection systems. Teradyne's test products are used by manufacturers of semiconductors, circuit assemblies, voice and broadband telephone networks. Teradyne's backplane assemblies and high-density connectors are used by manufacturers of communications and computing systems central to building networking infrastructure. The company had sales of $1.4 billion in 2001 and currently employs about 8000 people worldwide. For more information visit www.teradyne.com.

IMAGE and TwinMode are trademarks of Teradyne, Inc.

HyperTransport is a trademark of the HyperTransport Technology Consortium.

“and we are pleased that they have chosen the Tiger to strengthen their position in the semiconductor testing market.”