Test Products
NORTH READING, MA – April 10, 2007 – Teradyne, Inc. (NYSE: TER), a world leader in high efficiency, low-cost test, has received a Texas Instruments (TI) 2006 Supplier Excellence Award. The award, given annually, honors companies whose dedication and commitment in supplying products and services meets TI’s high standards for excellence. Recipients are chosen by TI for their exemplary performance in the areas of cost, environmental responsibility, technology, responsiveness, assurance of supply, and quality. Fewer than 1% of TI’s more than 15,000 suppliers is recognized with this prestigious award.
Teradyne supplies TI with Teradyne® FLEX(TM) Test Platform systems used for testing microcontrollers, processors with embedded memory, automotive, computer disk drive, and power management devices. TI was the first customer of the Teradyne FLEX Test Platform when it was introduced in 2002, and in 2006 TI received Teradyne’s 1000th FLEX Platform shipment. Also in 2006, TI Japan installed its first production FLEX system in Miho.
“The competitive demands of TI’s global business require excellence from its supply chain, and the Supplier Excellence Award recognizes only the highest performing suppliers,” said Rob Simpson, VP Worldwide Procurement and Logistics, Texas Instruments. “Teradyne contributes greatly to the success of TI, and we thank them for their commitment.”
The FLEX Test Platform’s next generation architecture provides the test technology and economics that are key to profitability and wide market coverage. This unique test architecture offers four core capabilities: the highest efficiency multisite test that nearly eliminates test time overhead, the broadest technology coverage enabled by a suite of high-density instrumentation, IG-XL(TM) interactive software with the fastest programming time for multisite test and OpenFLEX(TM), an open platform architecture for specialized test requirements.
“Receiving the Supplier Excellence Award from TI twice in the past three years is a great accomplishment and demonstrates the value customers place on our dedication to continuous improvement,” said Ty Akin, TI Worldwide Sales Manager for Teradyne. “Teradyne is committed to working with TI to create the ultimate production test solution that yields technical and economic advantages. I’d like to thank TI for selecting Teradyne as a 2006 Supplier Excellence Award recipient, and we look forward to delivering more great success on the TI test floor with FLEX.”
About FLEX Test Platform
Teradyne’s FLEX Test Platform, which has surpassed its 1100th unit shipment, advances test technologies in an architecture designed for high-efficiency, multisite test. The Platform offers multiple systems so customers can optimize for performance, configuration capacity and capital cost to achieve lower cost-of-test. FLEX Platform systems span test requirements from (SOC) and System-In-Package (SIP) devices for consumer, automotive, mass storage, wireless, and data communications applications. To learn more about the FLEX Platform, visit http://www.teradyne.com/flex/.
About Teradyne
Teradyne (NYSE:TER) is a leading supplier of Automatic Test Equipment used to test complex electronics for the consumer electronics, automotive, computing, telecommunications, and aerospace and defense industries. In 2006, Teradyne had sales of $1.38 billion, and currently employs about 3,800 people worldwide. For more information, visit www.teradyne.com. Teradyne (R) is a registered trademark of Teradyne, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. All product names are trademarks of Teradyne, Inc. (including its subsidiaries) or their respective owners.
