Press Releases - 2007



Verigy to Present at the Needham 10th Annual Growth Stock Conference
CUPERTINO, Calif. – Dec. 19, 2007 – Verigy (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, today announced that Keith Barnes, chairman, chief executive officer, and president, and Bob Nikl, chief financial officer will present to the investment community attending the Needham 10th Annual Growth Stock Conference. 
 
Verigy Adds Steven W. Berglund to Board of Directors
CUPERTINO, Calif. – Dec. 19, 2007 – Verigy (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, today announced that Steven W. Berglund, President and CEO of Trimble Navigation, has been appointed to its Board of Directors. 
 
Over 250 Attend VOICE 2007, Verigy's V93000 SOC and V5000 Memory Series Users Conference
CUPERTINO, Calif. –Dec. 18, 2007 – Verigy (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, held VOICE 2007, the company's second annual V93000 SOC and V5000 Memory Series Users and Partners Conference Dec. 4 and 5 in San Jose.  
 
Verigy Signs Agreement to Acquire Inovys
CUPERTINO, Calif. - Dec. 6, 2007 - Verigy (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, and Inovys today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement for Verigy to acquire Inovys. 
 
Verigy Recognized by Customers in Japan for 'Quality of Results Achieved' in VLSI Research's Survey on Equipment Suppliers
SEMICON Japan –Dec. 5, 2007– Verigy (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, has ranked among the top 20 favorite equipment suppliers in Japan on the 2007 VLSI Research Inc customer satisfaction survey. 
 
Verigy Announces Strong Revenue and Earnings for Fourth Quarter, and Reports Financial Results for Fiscal Year 2007
CUPERTINO, Calif., Nov. 27, 2007 – Verigy Ltd. (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, today reported financial results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2007 ended Oct. 31, 2007. Fiscal fourth quarter revenue was $209 million, a sequential increase of 2.5 percent from the prior quarter of $204 million, and a 3.5 percent increase over revenue of $202 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2006.  
 
Verigy Announces Board Approval of Share Repurchase Program
CUPERTINO, Calif., Nov. 27, 2007 – Verigy Ltd. (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, today announced that its Board of Directors has approved a share repurchase program.  
 
OKI Selects Verigy V93000 Port Scale RF for Performance, Low Cost-of-Test, Fast Time-to-Volume
CUPERTINO, Calif. - Nov. 26, 2007 - Verigy (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, today announced that Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. (TSE: 6703) has purchased the Verigy Port Scale RF solution for testing its highly integrated wireless communications devices. OKI’s devices are used by consumer electronics manufacturers for a wide range of end products, including set-top boxes, cell phones, PDAs and other wireless products. 
 
Verigy to Present at the Lehman Brothers Global Technology Conference
CUPERTINO, Calif. - Nov. 21, 2007 - Verigy (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, today announced that Keith Barnes, chairman, chief executive officer, and president, and Bob Nikl, chief financial officer, will present to the investment community attending the Lehman Brothers Global Technology Conference. 
 
Verigy to Present at the Credit Suisse 2007 Annual Technology Conference
CUPERTINO, Calif. - Nov. 14, 2007 - Verigy (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, today announced that Bob Nikl, chief financial officer, and Judy Davies, vice president of investor relations, will present to the investment community attending the Credit Suisse 2007 Annual Technology Conference at The Phoenician in Scottsdale, Arizona on Wednesday, November 28, 2007 at 10:30 a.m. MST.  
 
Verigy Announces Prestigious Keynote Speakers for VOICE 2007: Analysts Klaus Rinnen, Bill McClean and Futurist Paul Saffo
CUPERTINO, Calif. – Nov. 7, 2007 – Verigy (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, today announced its prestigious keynote speakers for VOICE 2007, Verigy’s second annual conference for V93000 SOC and V5000 series users and partners. 
 
Verigy to Host Webcast of its Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2007 Financial Results Conference Call
CUPERTINO, Calif., Nov. 6, 2007 – Verigy Ltd. (NASDAQ: VRGY) will release fourth quarter and fiscal year 2007 financial results after the stock market close on Tues., Nov. 27, 2007. The company will host a live webcast of its earnings conference call in listen-only mode.  
 
Verigy to Host Analyst Meeting in New York City
CUPERTINO, Calif. – Oct. 25, 2007 – Verigy (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, today announced its Analyst Meeting scheduled for Tuesday, December 11, 2007. The event will be held at The Westin New York at Times Square Hotel located at 270 West 43rd Street, New York, New York, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET.  
 
Verigy Recognized for Uptime by Taiwan Customers in VLSI Research's Survey on Equipment Suppliers
CUPERTINO, Calif. - Oct. 16, 2007 - Verigy (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, has ranked among the top 20 favorite equipment suppliers in Taiwan on the 2007 VLSI Research Inc. customer satisfaction survey. 
 
VOICE 2007 to Feature Rich Technical Program
CUPERTINO, Calif. - Oct. 8, 2007 - Verigy (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, has announced details of the technical program for VOICE 2007, Verigy’s second annual conference for its users and partners to be held December 4 and 5, in San Jose, Calif. at the Dolce Hayes Mansion. 
 
Alchip Selects Verigy V93000 SOC Series Pin Scale as Next Generation Test Platform
CUPERTINO, Calif. - Sept. 25, 2007 - Verigy (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, today announced that Alchip Technologies has selected the Verigy V93000 SOC Series Pin Scale as its next-generation test platform. 
 
ISE Labs Adds Verigy V93000 Pin Scale HX Cards for High-Speed Device Characterization and Debug
CUPERTINO, Calif. - Sept. 18, 2007 -Verigy (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, today announced that ISE Labs, the largest semiconductor test engineering service provider in the Silicon Valley, has expanded its test capabilities with the addition of Verigy V93000 Pin Scale HX cards. 
 
Verigy to Present at the Bank of America 37th Annual Fall Investment Conference
CUPERTINO, Calif. - Sept. 10, 2007 - Verigy (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, today announced that Bob Nikl, chief financial officer, and Judy Davies, vice president of investor relations, will present to the investment community attending the Bank of America 37th Annual Fall Investment Conference. 
 
Verigy Announces Financial Results for Third Quarter, 2007
CUPERTINO, Calif., Aug. 22, 2007 - Verigy Ltd. (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, today reported financial results for its fiscal third quarter, ended July 31, 2007.  
 
Preliminary Financial Results for Third Quarter of Fiscal Year 2007 - Verigy Expects to Meet Previous Guidance
CUPERTINO, Calif., Aug. 8, 2007 – Verigy Ltd. (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, today reported preliminary financial results for its fiscal third quarter, ended July 31, 2007.  
 
Verigy to Host Webcast of its Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2007 Financial Results Conference Call
CUPERTINO, Calif., Aug. 2, 2007 - Verigy Ltd. (NASDAQ: VRGY) will release third quarter fiscal year 2007 financial results after the stock market close on Wed., Aug. 22, 2007. The company will host a live webcast of its earnings conference call in listen-only mode. 
 
Verigy Introduces V5000ep Low-Cost Memory Test Solution for Small Lot Production
CUPERTINO, Calif. - July 17, 2007 -Verigy (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, today introduced the Verigy V5000ep which allows customers to perform quality assurance, characterization and small lot production at wafer sort and final test on new memory devices. 
 
Leading ATE, EDA and Semiconductor Companies to Address Datalog Bottleneck in Yield Analysis
CUPERTINO, Calif., July 9, 2007 - The STDF Fail Data Standardization Group is holding an open meeting at SEMICON West on July 17 to review progress on the working group's effort to develop a standard format to enable easy sharing of structural fail information for manufacturing yield analysis. 
 
Verigy Appoints CEO Keith Barnes Chairman, Adds Industry Veteran Ed Grady to Board of Directors
CUPERTINO, Calif. - July 10, 2007 - Verigy (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, today announced several changes to its Board of Directors. Keith Barnes, Verigy's chief executive officer and president, has been appointed to the additional role of chairman of Verigy’s Board of Directors. 
 
Verigy to Host Analyst Event in San Francisco
CUPERTINO, Calif. - July 2, 2007 - Verigy (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, today announced its Analyst Event scheduled for Tuesday, July 17, 2007. 
 
Verigy Strengthens RF Testing on Latest Handset Technology
CUPERTINO, Calif. – June 26, 2007 – Verigy (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, today announced that its longtime customer, QUALCOMM, has added its 25th Verigy V93000 SoC tester to its test floor. This marks the 1500th V93000 system installed at Verigy customer sites worldwide.  
 
Verigy Introduces Port Scale RF Test Solution for V93000
CUPERTINO, Calif. - June 26, 2007 - Verigy (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, today introduced the Port Scale RF solution for the V93000 SoC Test Platform.  
 
Verigy Nanoelectronics Digital Solution Targets Failure Mechanisms at 65nm and Below for Yield Improvement
CUPERTINO, Calif. - June 26, 2007 -Verigy (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, today introduced the V93000 Nanoelectronics Digital solution for structural and functional test for wafer sort and final test of advanced digital ICs at 65nm and beyond.  
 
Verigy Introduces Consumer Mixed Signal Test Solution for V93000
CUPERTINO, Calif. - June 26, 2007 - Verigy (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, today introduced the V93000 Consumer Mixed Signal test solution for performing both wafer sort and final test across a broad range of highly integrated consumer devices.  
 
Verigy Ranks in VLSI Research 10 BEST for Second Year in a Row
CUPERTINO, Calif. –June 18, 2007– Verigy (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, has been placed on the 2007 VLSI Research Inc 10 BEST Awards list for Test Equipment. Verigy's highest rated categories were product performance and technical leadership. 
 
Verigy to Present at the Bear Stearns 18th Annual Technology Conference
CUPERTINO, Calif. - June 4, 2007 - Verigy (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, today announced that Bob Nikl, chief financial officer, and Judy Davies, vice president of investor relations, will present to the investment community attending the Bear Stearns 18th Annual Technology Conference at The Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City, on Monday, June 11, 2007, at 10:00 a.m. EDT.  
 
Verigy and Mentor Graphics to Co-Host Semiconductor Manufacturing Yield Learning and Logic Diagnosis Seminar Series
CUPERTINO, Calif. - May 29, 2007 - Verigy (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company and Mentor Graphics Corp. (NASDAQ: MENT), a leader in electronic hardware and software design solutions, are co-hosting a series of three half-day seminars in June on the latest advances in yield learning and logic diagnosis for semiconductor manufacturing. 
 
Verigy Announces Financial Results for Second Quarter, 2007
CUPERTINO, Calif., May 24, 2007 - Verigy Ltd. (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, today reported financial results for its fiscal second quarter, ended April 30, 2007. 
 
Verigy to Present at the Cowen and Company 35th Annual SMid-Cap Technology Conference
CUPERTINO, Calif. - May 21, 2007 -Verigy (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, today announced that Judy Davies, vice president of investor relations, and Pascal Ronde, vice president of sales, service and support, will present to the investment community attending the Cowen and Company 35th Annual SMid-Cap Technology Conference at The New York Palace Hotel in New York City, New York on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 at 10:30 a.m. EST.  
 
Verigy to Host Webcast of its Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2007 Financial Results Conference Call
CUPERTINO, Calif., May 10, 2007 - Verigy Ltd. (NASDAQ: VRGY) will release second quarter fiscal year 2007 financial results after the stock market close on Thurs., May 24. The company will host a live webcast of its earnings conference call in listen-only mode. 
 
Verigy and DELTA Microelectronics Collaborate to Support Fabless Semiconductor Companies in Europe for RF Applications
CUPERTINO, Calif. - April 11, 2007 - Verigy (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, today announced an agreement with DELTA Microelectronics, a leading provider of engineering and testing services to fabless semiconductor companies in Europe. 
 
Verigy Among Best Rated Equipment Suppliers in VLSI Research Customer Survey of Semiconductor Manufacturers in China
CUPERTINO, Calif. - March 22, 2007 - Verigy (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, today announced it ranked among the best rated semiconductor equipment suppliers in China, according to a VLSI Research customer satisfaction survey. 
 
Verigy Celebrates Major Milestone in Outsourced Manufacturing Transition
SEMICON China, Shanghai - March 22, 2007 - Verigy (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, today announced a major milestone in its strategy to outsource its manufacturing with the shipment of the 100th Verigy V5000 Series memory test system manufactured by its partner, Flextronics (NASDAQ: FLEX), a leading electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider. 
 
Verigy Adds Parallelism to Reduce Memory Test Development Time
CUPERTINO, Calif. – March 21, 2007 – Verigy (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, has introduced the Programmable Interface Matrix for the Verigy V5000e Engineering Workstation to bring the parallel test capabilities of the Matrix to memory manufacturers using the popular V5000e for engineering, test development and debug. 
 
Papers Invited for VOICE 2007, Verigy's 2nd Annual Conference for Users and Partners
CUPERTINO, Calif. - March 12, 2007 - Verigy (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, has issued the call-for-papers for VOICE 2007, the second annual conference for Verigy customers and partners using the V93000 SOC Series and the V5000 Series of memory testers. 
 
Verigy Receives Frost & Sullivan "Excellence in Technology" Award
CUPERTINO, Calif. - Feb. 27, 2007 - Verigy (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, today announced it has been awarded the 2006 North American Frost & Sullivan "Excellence in Technology" Award for systems-on-chip (SOC) testing solutions. 
 
Verigy Reports Financial Results for First Quarter of Fiscal 2007
CUPERTINO, Calif., Feb. 22, 2007 - Verigy Ltd. (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, today reported financial results for its fiscal first quarter, ended Jan. 31, 2007. 
 
Verigy to Present at the Goldman Sachs Investment Symposium
CUPERTINO, Calif. - Feb. 20, 2007 - Verigy (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, today announced that Keith Barnes, president and chief executive officer, and Bob Nikl, vice president and chief financial officer, will present to the investment community attending the Goldman Sachs Investment Symposium at The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2007 at 11:40 a.m. PST. 
 
Verigy to Host Webcast of its First-Quarter Fiscal Year 2007 Financial Results Conference Call
CUPERTINO, Calif., Feb. 5, 2007 - Verigy Ltd. (NASDAQ: VRGY) will release first-quarter fiscal year 2007 financial results after the stock market close on Thursday, Feb. 22. The company will host a live webcast of its earnings conference call in listen-only mode. 
 
Verigy to Present at the Thomas Weisel Partners Technology Conference
CUPERTINO, Calif. - Jan. 30, 2007 - Verigy (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, today announced that Keith Barnes, president and chief executive officer, and Bob Nikl, vice president and chief financial officer, will present to the investment community attending the Thomas Weisel Partners Technology Conference at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, Calif., on Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2007 at 8:00 a.m. PST. 
 
Faraday Selects Verigy V93000 Pin Scale System as Next-Generation Platform for SoC Business
CUPERTINO, Calif. - January 24, 2007 - Verigy (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, today announced that Faraday Technology Corporation (TAIEX: 3035), a leading ASIC/SoC design service company, has selected the Verigy V93000 Pin Scale system as its next-generation platform for SoC design. 
 
Global Unichip Selects Verigy V93000 as the Next Generation SOC Test Platform for High-End Design/Verification Services
CUPERTINO, Calif. - January 24, 2007 - Verigy (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, today announced that Global Unichip Corp. (GUC; TW:3443), a leading SoC design foundry, has selected the Verigy V93000 Pin Scale system. The V93000 will meet GUC's need for a high-end test system for testing complex high-speed, high pin-count devices for IDM, fabless and system house customers in Japan, Europe and the U.S. 
 
New Verigy Learning Center Provides Customers with Convenient Online Resource for Managing Valuable Verigy Training
CUPERTINO, Calif., Jan. 16, 2007 -Verigy (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, has established the new Verigy Learning Center to provide Verigy customers with online access to Verigy's training course information. Verigy customers can now login to the Verigy Learning Center anytime to review available training courses and schedules, register for courses and track their personal training histories. 
 
Verigy V93000 HSM High-Speed DRAM Tester Receives Honorable Mention in Test & Measurement World 2007
CUPERTINO, Calif. - Jan. 11, 2007 - Verigy (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, today announced that the Verigy V93000 High-Speed Memory (HSM) Series DRAM tester was recognized in the honorable mentions category. The V93000 HSM Series was one of 24 products selected by Test & Measurement World's editors for honorable mention as part of its annual Best in Test awards. 
 
Verigy to Present at the Needham and Company Ninth Annual Growth Conference
CUPERTINO, Calif. - January 3, 2007 - Verigy (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, today announced that Keith Barnes, president and chief executive officer, and Bob Nikl, vice president and chief financial officer, will present to the investment community attending the Needham & Company Ninth Annual Growth Conference at The New York Palace Hotel in New York, NY on Wednesday, January 10, 2007 at 9:00 a.m. EST.