Cascade Microtech (NASDAQ:CSCD) today announced that its Grypper BGA test socket has been selected as a winner of Semiconductor International’s 2008 Best Product Award. The awards were distributed at a special ceremony on July 16th during the SEMICON West conference in San Francisco. The device-sized Grypper socket is ideal for mobile applications. This high performance, low cost, fine pitch socket tests 0.4mm and 0.5mm pitch devices where the PCB (printed circuit board) holes for external fasteners and additional hardware cannot be accommodated.
The Editors' Choice Best Product Awards is an annual contest hosted by Semiconductor International to find and reward the products created by companies that deliver the level of excellence needed to succeed in the semiconductor industry today.
“It is an honor to be recognized by industry leading editors for our product innovation,” said Cascade Microtech CEO Geoff Wild. “This award reinforces our product line strategy to deliver solutions that solve our customers’ toughest test and measurement problems.”
About the Grypper BGA Test Socket
Gryphics Product Group, a part of the Production Products Division of Cascade Microtech, introduced their new Grypper BGA test socket in January 2007. The socket utilizes Gryphics’ advanced manufacturing and contact technologies to achieve a very fine pitch with low inductance and low insertion loss beyond 15 GHz. The unique contact design provides excellent mechanical and electrical performance, with oxide-penetrating actions to achieve stable contact resistance for varying solder compositions. This provides excellent signal fidelity for today’s high frequency applications such as advanced high-speed serial buses and wireless RF interfaces.
The Grypper socket is uniquely suited for chips designed for mobile and consumer applications, where fine-pitch BGA devices can be socketed right on the actual production or evaluation RF circuit board without any additional PCB area overhead.
About Semiconductor International
Founded over 25 years ago, Semiconductor International is the leading technical publication covering the global semiconductor industry. SI has the largest circulation of qualified buyers in semiconductor fabs and foundries, features the industry's largest and most experienced full-time technical editorial staff, and carries more pages of editorial and advertising than any other industry publication. Information about SI can be found on the Web at www.semiconductor.net.
About Cascade Microtech
Cascade Microtech, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCD) is a worldwide leader in the precise electrical measurement and test of integrated circuits (ICs) and other small structures. For technology businesses and scientific institutions that need to evaluate small structures, Cascade Microtech delivers access to, and extraction of, electrical data from wafers, integrated circuits (ICs), IC packages, circuit boards and modules, MEMS, biological structures, electro-optic devices and more. Cascade Microtech’s leading-edge semiconductor production test products include unique probe cards and test sockets that reduce manufacturing costs of high-speed and high-density semiconductor chips. Information about Cascade Microtech can be found on the Web at www.cascademicrotech.com
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Cali Sartor, 503-601-1000
cali_sartor@cmicro.com
