Orders for semi equipment at lowest level since 2003

Reflecting the pronounced cutback in capital expenditures this year, North America-based semiconductor manufacturing equipment providers posted $905 million in orders in July on a three-month average basis and a book-to-bill ratio of 0.83

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Verigy slumps on, "Ugly Outlook"

$1.3 billion Verigy (VRGY), which makes equipment to test computer chips, is down $1.53, or almost 7%, at $20.37 in after-hours trading after the company this evening reported sales and profit for its fiscal 3Q ended in July that beat estimates, but issues a very ugly outlook for the current quarter.

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MVTS will support Credence legacy product lines

Credence announced today that it has entered into an exclusive agreement with MVTS Technologies to offer support for seven Credence legacy products including Vista, Duo, Quartet, Octet, SC, Kalos, and EXA.

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Nvidia adopts Teseda V550

NVIDIA has taken delivery of their first V550(TM) system, and will be acquiring multiple systems.

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Chroma ATE profitable - plans US push

Strong Euro causing customers to move their production facilities from Europe back to US.

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Credence Diamond Test Platform Advances

Industry-Leading Channel Density Enables Larger Multisite Counts, Allowing Higher Throughput for Customers Without Adding More Test Cells on the Production Floor

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Advantest preps for greater market presence in Europe

Advantest Europe has established an R&D department based at its headquarters in Munich. With the move, the Japanese semiconductor test system vendor aims at strengthening its market presence in Europe.

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Teseda opens Silicon Valley Office

Teseda Corp., a provider of diagnostic and debug products for semiconductor yield improvement, said Thursday it opened a Silicon Valley office.

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