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Verigy sees, "GPU sector takes off" - Beats Q3 estimates

Revenue for the third quarter was $87 million, an increase 23 percent from the prior quarter, and a decrease of 51 percent from the prior year period. Net loss for the third quarter was $21 million. For Q4 revenue is expected to be in the range of $90 million to $100 million

TSMC on equipment "spending spree"

EETimes reporting that TSMC is spending more than $250 million on semiconductor capital equipment in recent weeks.

Advanced Fab Capacity Utilization tops 90%

Fab capacity utilization is now above 90% for all processes better than 80nm, and for all 300mm wafer processing.

Downturn in the IC equipment market is over, says analyst

The Information Network market research compnay said it considers Applied Materials' results as a confirmation that "the downturn in the semiconductor equipment market is over".

Advantest Q1 sees orders more than double sequentially

Orders more than double sequentially to 1.6 billion yen. Sales fell approximately 20%. Order backlog rose approximately 70% to 9.8 billion yen.

Chroma ATE to see 20-30% revenue growth in 3Q09

Growth driven by orders from the solar power and LED testing sectors, according to market watchers.

Teradyne: "Starting to Fire on A Number of Cylinders"

Teradyne seeing the first recovery stage in Semiconductor Test at the same time that their new Hard Disk Drive business is gathering momentum.

Teradyne Q2 Revenue $40M above high end of guidance

Teradyne president Bradley says, "We saw significant improvement in our System-on-chip test business." Bookings in Q2 were $227 million.

Advantest Announces New T5385 DRAM Wafer Test System

The T5385 offers a parallel test capability of 768 devices -- the highest in the industry, and twice the capability of the company's previous model. The T5385 will be available beginning August 2009.

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