Advanced Interconnect Technologies Expands Wireless Test Capabilities with Credence Systems Corporation.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

PLEASANTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 30, 2003

Company Selects Credence ASL 3000RF to Provide Customers with

Industry's Most Advanced Radio Frequency (RF) Test Platform

Advanced Interconnect Technologies (AIT), a global provider of semiconductor assembly and test services, today expanded its wireless test capabilities by adding an advanced radio frequency (RF) test system from Credence Systems Corporation (Nasdaq:CMOS). The new test system, Credence's ASL 3000RF, will help AIT meet the needs of customers developing analog, digital and mixed-signal wireless applications.

"RF ICs have evolved from simple devices with low pin counts to complex, high pin count devices with diverse technologies in a single package," said Saeed R. Shakeri, vice president of North American test operations for AIT. "Keeping step with device evolution requires the most advanced test equipment, such as the Credence ASL 3000RF. AIT continues to build a diversified test portfolio that provides its customers with the appropriate test options that help them meet cost and time-to-market goals."

The ASL 30000RF is a scaleable, mixed-signal test platform that meets the demands of consumer market segments such as audio, video and telecommunications. The ASL 3000RF features Credence's patented modulated vector network analysis (MVNA(TM)) technology -- a new method for making S-parameter measurements with greater accuracy -- that is essential to generating sophisticated RF test results.

"The ASL 3000RF will allow AIT to offer its customers a more compelling wireless test platform that can lower test costs and speed time-to-market," said Larry DiBattista, vice president and general manager of Credence's Mixed-Signal and Wireless Division. "The system's flexible architecture also provides AIT with a cost-effective way to extend and upgrade the platform as required to address emerging devices and applications."

Currently, AIT offers a broad range of assembly and test services across Asia, Europe and North America. The company's global mixed-signal and RF capabilities include: 24 analog channel and 80 digital channels, 10 MHz to 50 MHz, RF up to 6 GHz, precision low frequency source and digitizer, VHF AWG and high frequency digitizer and waveform capture, digital signal processing, 384 digital channels and 14 MHz to 250 MHz.

AIT's North American test headquarters is a 30,000 square foot site located in Sunnyvale, Calif. that is operated 24 hours per day, seven days a week. The facility offers capabilities in engineering, test software/hardware development, wafer probe, final test, turnkey reliability testing, component marking and demarking, dry bake, lead scan and lead conditioning, tape and reel, dry pack and seal and bar code labeling. To deliver seamless global test services, AIT has a total of 85,000 square feet of factory floor space dedicated to test with additional locations in Austin, Texas, and in its assembly and test factory in Batam.

About Advanced Interconnect Technologies (AIT)

Advanced Interconnect Technologies is a global provider of semiconductor assembly and test services for many of the world's most successful electronics companies. The company's turnkey services include design, assembly, testing, failure analysis, and electrical and thermal characterization. AIT has received recognition for its field service and product yields from several of the industry's leading semiconductor device manufacturers. The company is also ISO 9001:2000, ISO 9002, ISO 14001 QS9000 certified, and SAC Certified, Level-2. With approximately 3,200 employees worldwide, AIT has factory locations in Batam, Indonesia; Austin, Texas and Sunnyvale, Calif. The company is headquartered in Pleasanton, Calif. For more information about the company, its products and services please visit their website at www.aitsales.com.