Electroglas Appoints John Osborne to Its Board of Directors.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 28, 2002 Electroglas, Inc. (Nasdaq:EGLS EGLS Eastside German Language School (Issaquah, WA) ), a leading supplier of process management tools for the semiconductor industry, has appointed John Osborne Noun 1. John Osborne - English playwright (1929-1994) John James Osborne, Osborne to its Board of Directors. Mr. Osborne, a semiconductor industry veteran of more than 30 years, was appointed to the position during Electroglas' May 23rd Board meeting. His appointment adds a wealth of knowledge and experience in the area of customer service and support to Electroglas' existing Board, which currently boasts experts in semiconductor development, manufacturing and marketing. Mr. Osborne's experience in the semiconductor industry dates back to 1967, when he first joined Motorola Semiconductor to develop lithography lithography (lĭthŏg`rəfē), type of planographic or surface printing. It is distinguished from letterpress (relief) printing and from intaglio printing (in which the design is cut or etched into the plate). , metallization Met`al`li`za´tion n. 1. The act or process of metallizing. and cleaning technologies. That work resulted in four patents and three technical publications. Mr. Osborne has spent more than 21 years in various senior management positions at companies such as Philips Electronics and Lam Research Lam Research Corporation (NASDAQ: LRCX) engages in the design, manufacture, marketing, and service of semiconductor processing equipment used in the fabrication of integrated circuits. . At Lam Research, from 1988 to 1997, he was a member of the corporate senior management team that grew Lam from $52M in 1988 to over $1.2B in 1996. He held positions of VP of Strategic Development, VP of Quality and VP of Customer Support. During his tenure at Lam, the company won the 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 Inc award for Customer Satisfaction for five straight years. Mr. Osborne has also founded two companies of his own. Most recently, he launched Competitive Customer Support, providing after-sales support consultation to businesses that make or use microchips. Over the years, Mr. Osborne has served on the Board of nine public and private companies. In addition to his post at Electroglas, he is currently on the Board of one private and one public company. About Electroglas, Inc. Electroglas delivers essential tools for process management to enhance the profitability of semiconductor manufacturers. The company's wafer probers The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. Please help [ improve the introduction] to meet Wikipedia's layout standards. You can discuss the issue on the talk page. , inspection systems and software solutions serve as data collection, management and analysis tools that semiconductor manufacturers depend upon to improve their productivity and process control by optimizing sort-floor efficiency. Electroglas has been a leading supplier of wafer probers for over 40 years and has an installed base of more than 15,000 systems. The company's stock trades on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol "EGLS". The company's Web site is located at www.electroglas.com. |
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