Corporate Profile for Credence Systems Corp. dated Feb. 9, 1996.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The following Corporate Profile is available for inclusion in your files. News releases for this client are distributed by Business Wire and also become part of the leading databases and information services See Information Systems. . These include Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance News/Retrieval, Bloomberg Financial Markets, Reuter Company Newsyear, Reuter Business Briefing, DataTimes, Nexis, Dialog, NewsNet, America OnLine See AOL. , CompuServe, Delphi, Individual's HeadsUp and First!, Desktop Data's NewsEdge, UMI UMI University Microfilms International UMI United States Minor Outlying Islands (ISO Country code) UMI University of Miami UMI Universal Management Infrastructure (IBM) Data Courier, NewsBank, Information Access Company, Prodigy, Comtex, and many others. -0- Published date: Feb. 9, 1996 Company name: Credence Systems Corp.
Address: 42808 Christy Street
Fremont, Calif. 94538
Telephone No.: 510/657-7400 Chief Executive Officer: James T. Healy Chief Financial Officer: Richard Y. Okumoto Investor Relations Contact: Julie Cimino/Richard Y. Okumoto Business number: 510/657-7400 Public Relations Contact: Henry S. Kim, Director Business number: 510/623-4739 Home number: 408/946-1212 Trading symbol: CMOS Industry: Semiconductor Test Equipment Company description: Credence is a leading manufacturer of automatic test equipment (ATE) that serves a broad spectrum of the worldwide semiconductor industry's testing needs. Credence offers test solutions for digital, mixed-signal, and non-volatile memory Refers to memory chips that hold their content without power being applied. It may refer to chips that are not changeable, such as ROMs and PROMs, or to chips that can be rewritten many times such as flash memory. semiconductors. Such devices are typical in multimedia, portable computing and mobile communications products. The company focuses on using innovation and technology to solve its customers' business problems. Historically, tester manufacturers have relied upon ECL (Emitter-Coupled Logic) A digital circuit composed of bipolar transistors in which the emitter ends are wired together. ECL gates switch faster than TTL gates, but consume more power. See TTL, I2L and bipolar. 1. technology to build its systems. ECL circuits consume tremendous power, require elaborate cooling techniques, and have large geometries. Credence has developed proprietary CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Pronounced "c-moss." The most widely used integrated circuit design. It is found in almost every electronic product from handheld devices to mainframes. stabilization technologies that have enabled the company to produce testers requiring less power, cooling and space. Because CMOS is also scaleable, successive generations of tester components result with minimal design effort. This leads to test systems so small as to be embedded within other manufacturing systems. Credence calls this "Zero Footprint" design. With 500 employees, annual sales topped $194 million in CY 95, with net income of $33 million. Credence is headquartered in Fremont, Calif., with manufacturing in Beaverton, Ore. and Santa Clara Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif. The company markets and sells its products through direct and indirect sales organizations located throughout the world. Credence is listed on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol CMOS. CONTACT: Credence Systems Corp. |
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