Customers Rank ICOS Vision Systems Among the 10 Best Chip Making Equipment Suppliers for Second Consecutive Year.Business Editors HEVERLEE, Belgium--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 19, 2000 ICOS Is the Only Package Inspection Company Among The 10 BEST For the second year in a row, ICOS Vision Systems Corporation N.V. (Easdaq and Nasdaq:IVIS IVIS International Veterinary Information Service IVIS Interactive Video Information System IVIS Intervehicular Information System IVIS Inter-Vehicular Information System IVIS Integrated Vehicular Information System IVIS in Vehicle Information System ) ("ICOS") appears in the list of the 10 BEST suppliers for Assembly and Specialty equipment in the worldwide annual VLSI VLSI: see integrated circuit. (1) (Very Large Scale Integration) Between 100,000 and one million transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, LSI and ULSI. (2) (VLSI Technology, Inc., Tempe, AZ, www.semiconductors. Research Customer Satisfaction survey. With a strong rating of 7.83 on a ten point scale, ICOS is the only inspection company in the Assembly segment of the 10 BEST. VLSI Research Inc, a research company located in Silicon Valley, is generally recognized as the leading market research company covering chip making equipment. By means of detailed questionnaires, worldwide semiconductor equipment customers rank their suppliers among eight categories that exemplify ex·em·pli·fy tr.v. ex·em·pli·fied, ex·em·pli·fy·ing, ex·em·pli·fies 1. a. To illustrate by example: exemplify an argument. b. a supplier's relationship with its customers. These eight categories include four measures of equipment performance and four measures of customer service. More than 5,200 ratings of individual companies were used in this survey. ICOS' highest ratings were achieved in product performance and uptime. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Mr. Risto Puhakka, Vice President Operations of VLSI Research, the customers show approval of the company with comments such as: "Fast and good product performance." "Superior support. ICOS takes extra steps to guarantee a satisfied customer." "Good technical support." Koen Gutscoven, Vice President Marketing & Sales of ICOS, commented, "The benefit of providing superior product support is that we receive immediate feedback from customers on their inspection needs. This allows us to develop a very competitive product offering, which we back up with a worldwide sales and support network. Being selected by our customers as one of the 10 BEST suppliers worldwide is the ultimate proof that this is a successful strategy." Jos Verjans, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of ICOS, commented, "ICOS is proud to be ranked sixth overall in its category and to be the only inspection supplier in the Assembly segment of the 10 BEST. Our first-rate customer relationships are matched by our strong financial results, including a record first quarter 2000. The ongoing strength of the market, coupled with our stellar operating performance, gives us a great deal of confidence that we will continue to achieve significant growth for the rest of the year." ICOS is a leading worldwide developer and supplier of machine vision and inspection solutions primarily for use in the back-end semiconductor manufacturing and electronic assembly industries. The Company's two- and three-dimensional inspection products are used worldwide to inspect integrated circuits Integrated circuits Miniature electronic circuits produced within and upon a single semiconductor crystal, usually silicon. Integrated circuits range in complexity from simple logic circuits and amplifiers, about 1/20 in. (1. at various stages of their manufacturing process and to align electronic components and printed circuit boards. The Company has three product lines: board-level products to be integrated in diebonding equipment and in pick-and-place machines, system-level products to be integrated in testhandlers, molding equipment, trim-and-form equipment, marking systems and tape-and-reel equipment and stand-alone component inspection systems. ICOS' headquarters are located in Heverlee, Belgium and it has sales and support offices in Japan, in the USA, Singapore, Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. , Korea and Taiwan. The German subsidiary is, besides having its sales and support function, also active as an R&D center. "Safe Harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. " Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995: Certain matters discussed in this press release are forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. . These statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected or anticipated. These risks and uncertainties include, without limitations, risks relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc technological change and the introduction of new products by the Company's competitors and risks relating to the Company's dependence on the semiconductor and electronic assembly industries, the Company's dependence on key suppliers and outside contractors outside contractor n → contratista m/f independiente and the Company's dependence on relatively few customers for a significant portion of its revenues. The Company cautions readers not to place undue reliance upon any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. The Company expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any such statements to reflect any change in the Company's expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based. Further discussion of risk factors is also available in the Company's SEC filings. ICOS Vision Systems Corporation N.V. can be found on the Worldwide Web at www.ICOS.be |
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