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Our History
2000s
Following its successful IPO in 1999, Agilent is now a fully independent company focusing on high-growth markets in communications, electronics and life sciences. In 2001, HP’s long-time healthcare business is acquired by Philips.
In June 2006, Verigy Ltd. is formed as a spin out corporation from Agilent, with focus on the semiconductor testing market sector. Verigy continues the traditions of its HP and Agilent heritage through technological innovation, corporate responsibility, solid business performance and respect for its people.
2000
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On June 2, Agilent is now a fully independent company focusing on high-growth markets in communications, electronics and life sciences. Recognized as an industry leader, Agilent is first worldwide in the test and measurement market.
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The V93000 family: More than 100 systems are installed at customer sites around the world.
2001
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HP co-founder William R. Hewlett dies on January 12.
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The Quad-Site Wireless Baseband Test is introduced, with concurrent test for simultaneous testing of multiple IP blocks on a single device, significantly increasing throughput and lowering cost of test. This becomes the first RF test solution based on the V93000 platform.
2002
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2004
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The Versatest 5X00 is introduced, with scalable platform architecture and massive parallelism, for testing memory devices, including flash memory and multi-chip packages (MCPs).
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A new generation Pin-Electronic is introduced for the V93000 platform, offering twice the pin-count (or number of channels) as the previous generation.
2005
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William P. (Bill) Sullivan is named Agilent President and CEO succeeding Edward W. (Ned) Barnholt.
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Agilent forms joint venture, Chengdu Instruments Division, to develop and manufacture test equipment for China and global market.
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Agilent establishes Agilent Technologies China Holding HP Ltd., based in Shanghai, to consolidate its entities in China.
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Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and Silver Lake Partners acquire Agilent’s Semiconductor Products Group.
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A high-speed pin electronic with 3.6 Gbps is introduced for the V93000.
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The V93000 family: More than 1000 systems are installed at customer sites around the world.
2006
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Leadership in high-speed test continues, introducing rates of 12.8 Gbps for testing interfaces "today and tomorrow."
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Verigy Limited, a Singapore company, is established in June 2006, and the semiconductor test business begins doing business as Verigy. Close to five decades after HP became a public corporation, Verigy issues its first stock offering at $16.25, just slightly higher than the initial HP stock offering of $16.00 in 1957.
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Keith Barnes is named CEO and Chairman of the Board of Verigy.
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Introduction of the first V93000 based solution for High Speed Memory devices; XDR,DDR, GDDR devices. This solution covers both Design Verification and high volume production.
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A new manufacturing and distribution-site in China is established; ramping first with the V5000 products.
2007
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Verigy completes its first year of business operations as a profitable independent company.
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Verigy introduces Port Scale RF, providing the highest test efficiency at minimal cost of test with up to 48 ports, true quad-site and true multisite parallel efficiencies.
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Verigy acquires Inovys, the leader in the provision of solutions for yield management, after a successful collaboration at a major customer that resulted in significant savings in the ramp up of a new product.
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The next generation quad-density Pin-Electronic for the V93000 is introduced.
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The Chinese manufacturing facility produces its first V93000, which shipped to a customer location in Asia.
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The V93000 family grows: More than 1500 systems are installed at customer sites around the world.
2008
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Verigy completes its second year of profitable operation as an independent corporation.
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Jorge Titinger is appointed Chief Operating Officer, reporting to Keith Barnes.
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The V93000 family expands: More than 2000 systems are installed at customer sites around the world.
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Verigy shortens SoC manufacturer's time to yield with the addition of the Inovys Silicon Debug Solution for the V93000 platform.
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The V93000 Port Scale RF solution is rapidly adopted with more than 100 systems installed worldwide during the year.
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The V6000 is introduced for testing both flash and DRAM memory on the same automated test equipment (ATE) platform, at breakthrough cost-of-test. The V6000 is versatile and scalable across the entire semiconductor memory test process, including engineering, wafer sort, and final test.
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The company opens an office in Petach Tikva, Israel. Verigy established a wholly-owned subsidiary in Israel to focus on sales, service, and support for the region.
2009
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The company achieves the number one supplier ranking among automated test equipment (ATE) users in the VLSI Research, Inc 2009 Customer Satisfaction Survey.
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Touchdown Technologies (TDT) is acquired. TDT designs, manufactures, and supports advanced MEMS probe cards for the production wafer test needs of worldwide semiconductor manufacturers.
Itanium Processor
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