CASCADE

Cascade

Cascade Microtech is a worldwide leader in the design, development and manufacture of advanced wafer probing solutions for the electrical measurement and test of semiconductor integrated circuits and chips. Our customers use these solutions to perform testing of chips while in wafer form, or wafer probing, in both engineering and production test environments. Our engineering probe stations and analytical probes are used in research and development to perform precise electrical measurements, or electrical metrology, on increasingly complex and high-speed chips in order to assure quality and reliability, reduce costly redesigns, accelerate time-to-market and improve chip fabrication processes. Our production probe cards reduce manufacturing costs of complex and high-speed chips by identifying defective chips early in the process and by testing multiple chips concurrently.

Each of the 20 largest semiconductor manufacturers in the world, in terms of revenue, is one of Cascade Microtech’s more than 800 customers. Major customers include Agilent Technologies, IBM, Intel, Micron Technology, NEC, Samsung, Sony, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and Texas Instruments. These customers use probing solutions to perform engineering and production testing of a wide variety of devices such as digital signal processors, and telecommunications and radio frequency ICs. Cascade Microtech also offers both package-level and wafer- level reliability test systems which provide early analysis and lifetime predictions.