Agere Recognizes Teradyne with 2003 Strategic Supplier Award.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 11, 2003 Teradyne, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :TER Third version. See bis. ) announced Agere Systems Agere Systems Inc. was an integrated circuit components company based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania, in the United States. Effective April 2, 2007, it was merged into LSI Corporation. (NYSE:AGR AGR advanced gas-cooled reactor .A, AGR.B) has presented a '2003 Strategic Supplier Award' to Teradyne. Supplying Agere with an extensive installed base of Catalyst and Tiger test systems, Teradyne delivers comprehensive multi-site test Multi-site test, or "multisite test", or "concurrent test", or "parallel test" are all semiconductor Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) terms that generally refer to testing of multiple "devices" at the same time. for sophisticated SOC devices used in storage disk drives and other data communication applications. The award selection was also based on Teradyne's unparalleled strength in global customer service that supports Agere's worldwide locations including Allentown, Bangkok, and Singapore. Thomas Linton, Agere Systems Chief Procurement Officer A Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) is an executive role focused on supply management for an enterprise. A report by Aberdeen Group shows a marked acceleration in the significance of procurement's role. , said: "Teradyne provided Agere with test system performance and support this year that truly differentiated them among test equipment suppliers. The Strategic Supplier Award is our way of publicly recognizing Teradyne with an elite group of companies that contribute to Agere's efforts to offer our customers the best total experience." "We're honored to receive a 'Strategic Supplier Award' from Agere, a leader in the mass storage device market," said Mark Jagiela, President, Semiconductor Test Division, Teradyne. "Continually building on our relationship over many years, Agere and Teradyne have worked closely together in aligning product roadmaps to ensure that optimal test technology is available for the newest generation of devices." About Tiger The Catalyst Tiger is the first ATE Platform to combine next generation LVDS (Low Voltage Differential Signaling) A transmission method for sending digital information. LVDS sends data over data high and data low lines rather than data and ground. and SerDes production test capability in a true SOC system. Extending the Catalyst Family, Tiger shares the same high throughput zero-time DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive architecture, IMAGE(TM) software and state-of-the-art analog instruments and extends the Catalyst Family to 1024 digital pins. Powered by breakthrough Silicon Germanium (SiGe) technology, Tiger's TwinMode Pin Electronics set a new digital performance standard with full I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output data rates to 1.6 Gbps and configurability for single ended or differential testing, while retaining the timing flexibility at top speed demanded by chipset, graphics and network processing applications. The flexibility of Tiger allows customers to configure their system to provide complete test coverage while achieving maximum production throughput for a broad range of devices. About Teradyne Teradyne (NYSE:TER) is the world's largest supplier of Automatic Test Equipment, and a leading supplier of interconnection systems. The company's products deliver competitive advantage to the world's leading semiconductor, electronics, automotive and network systems companies. In 2002, Teradyne had sales of $1.22 billion, and currently employs about 6300 people worldwide. For more information, visit www.teradyne.com. Teradyne is a trademark of Teradyne, Inc. in the US and other countries. Agere, Agere Systems and the Agere logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Agere Systems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. |
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