Mr. Neil Kelly
Semiconductor Test Consultant, Neil Kelly
Member of the Technology Council
Council Member Biography
Neil Kelly is an independent semiconductor test Consultant since October 2005. Previously, Mr. Kelly was Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at LTX Corporation, a semiconductor test equipment and services company. With more than 25 years experience in semiconductor test, in engineering and engineering management positions, he is an expert in system on a chip (SOC), mixed signal, and RF wireless test, and is knowledgeable about memory test. He is experienced in all aspects of the back-end semiconductor business, including test equipment vendors (Teradyne, Verigy, LTX-Credence, and Advantest), and outsourced assembly and test providers (ASE Test, Amkor, STATS ChipPAC, SPIL, and UTAC). (This is me - Update Profile)
Employment History
- 2005 - Unspecified
- Semiconductor Test Consultant, Neil Kelly
- 1980 - 2005
- Chief Technology Officer and VP- Marketing , LTX-CREDENCE CORPORATION
- 1979 - 1980
- Application Engineer, SAFT(UK) Ltd.
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Interesting Investment by ISE Labs
October 17, 2009
Verigy and ISE Labs Collaborate on Memory | www.tmworld.com
ISE Labs is owned by the large outsourced test and assembly company ASE Group, who have not previously been extensively involved in DRAM test. The purchase of a DRAM tester by one of their feeder labs indicates a change in direction.
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Good Deal for both Teradyne and Teseda
October 17, 2009
Teradyne Partners with Teseda to Provide Scan Diagnosis Tool | www.tmworld.com
The exclusive agreement between Teradyne and Teseda to produce Scan Workbench provides Teradyne a competing product to Verigy's Inovys line, without the messy acquisition. Teseda gets a world-class distribution network for its product, and targets the most popular installed base for SOC testers.
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Intel fails in its attempt to create commodity ATE
April 5, 2009
ATE consortium STC folds | www.eetimes.com
The failure of a large semiconductor test purchaser like Intel to exert its will on the semiconductor ATE market likely indicates that the threat of commoditization is over. The large ATE companies make heavy R&D investments in their equipment, which they recoup with premium pricing protected by a proprietary architecture. The semiconductor test consortium collapsed because only one ATE manufacturer embraced the concept.
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April 5, 2009
Teradyne plans more cost cuts, lowers guidance | www.edn.com
Semiconductor ATE companies are starting to believe current levels of business represent the bottom of the downturn. There are two problems with this - firstly, the companies have not seen their business stabilize yet, and secondly they will not survive long at these depressed revenue levels, so the shape and timing of the upturn is critical.
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September 4, 2008
Teradyne Coughs Up $250M For Eagle Test | www.forbes.com
Industry consolidation in this case will not lead to a reduction in available products in the short term, so is of little immediate benefit to the industry as a whole. Verigy will be the strongest out of the remaining SOC test companies as they alone benefit from the economics of single platform, and will compete with a Teradyne that is financially weaker after the Eagle acquisition. Eagle doesn't have any test technology that isn't already part of Teradyne's FLEX platform - indeed Teradyne has recently beaten Eagle in head-to-head competition.
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