Verigy Ltd was a Cupertino, California-based[2] semiconductor automatic test equipment manufacturer. The company existed as a business within Hewlett-Packard before it was spun off in 2006 as a standalone company. It was purchased by Advantest in 2011.
History
Verigy was started by Hewlett-Packard, reported to David Packard in its early days, and was spun off from Agilent Technologies in 2006. The company went public on the NASDAQ in June 2006. The CEO was Keith Barnes, who later became chairman and CEO. The CFO was Bob Nikl. In 2011 Mr. Barnes moved to chairman of the board of directors and Jorge Titinger became CEO and president. The company's NASDAQ symbol was VRGY.
Verigy designs, develops, manufactures, sells and services advanced semiconductor test systems for the flash memory, high-speed memory and system-on-chip (SoC) markets. Verigy's products are used worldwide in design validation, characterization, and high-volume manufacturing test.