Cohu Enters Silicon Carbide (SiC) Burn-In Test Market
31 Octubre 2024 - 2:02PM
Business Wire
Cohu, Inc. (NASDAQ: COHU), a global supplier of equipment and
services optimizing semiconductor manufacturing yield and
productivity, today announced that a leading European customer has
selected Cohu’s Neon system for high-speed handling and inspection
of high-power SiC dies in burn-in test applications. This expands
Cohu’s products into burn-in and stress-test SiC processes.
Cohu’s solution offers a proprietary carrier concept that allows
singulated die burn-in and stress-test for up to 150 devices per
carrier, enabling high parallel test, and optimizing yield and
productivity. The unique interface solution enables high-power test
up to 2,500V and heat dissipation capability up to 3,000W. In
conjunction with test, Cohu’s vision inspection metrology
technology provides 6-sided optical inspection with micro-scale
defect detection and full traceability from wafer input to output,
satisfying stringent automotive zero-defect requirements. The
accompanying AI inspection software utilizes proprietary deep
learning and neural network-based pattern recognition to improve
inspection yield and maximize throughput, reducing customers' total
cost of ownership. The silicon carbide power market is projected to
be approximately $2.2 billion this year with a CAGR of 25% through
2029 driven mainly by vehicle electrification and renewable energy,
representing a $50 million market opportunity for Cohu in this type
of equipment.
“We are pleased to have received multiple orders from one of the
world’s leading silicon carbide power device manufacturers for this
application,” commented Luis Müller, Cohu President and CEO. “This
new product configuration will extend our offering in the silicon
carbide market, enabling burn-in test at the die-level to
significantly lower our customers’ cost and optimizing yield and
productivity.”
About Cohu:
Cohu (NASDAQ: COHU) is a global technology leader supplying
test, automation, inspection and metrology products and services to
the semiconductor industry. Cohu’s differentiated and broad product
portfolio enables optimized yield and productivity, accelerating
customers’ manufacturing time-to-market. Additional information can
be found at www.Cohu.com.
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introductions or customer adoptions and corresponding performance
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Actual results and future business conditions could differ
materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement as
a result of various factors, including, without limitation: new
product investments and product enhancements which may not be
commercially successful; the semiconductor industry is seasonal,
cyclical, volatile and unpredictable; recent erosion in mobile,
automotive and industrial market sales; our ability to manage and
deliver high quality products and services; failure of sole source
contract manufacturer or our ability to manage third-party raw
material, component and/or service providers; ongoing inflationary
pressures on material and operational costs coupled with rising
interest rates; economic recession; the semiconductor industry is
intensely competitive, subject to rapid technological changes, and
experiences consolidation of key customers for semiconductor test
equipment; a limited number of customers account for a substantial
percentage of net sales; significant exports to foreign countries
with economic and political instability and competition from a
number of Asia-based manufacturers; our relationships with
customers may deteriorate; loss of key personnel; risks of using
artificial intelligence within Cohu’s product developments and
business; reliance on foreign locations and geopolitical
instability in such locations critical to Cohu and its customers;
natural disasters, war and climate-related changes, including
related economic impacts; levels of debt; access to sufficient
capital on reasonable or favorable terms; foreign operations and
related currency fluctuations; required or desired accounting
charges and the cost or effectiveness of accounting controls;
instability of financial institutions where we maintain cash
deposits and potential loss of uninsured cash deposits; significant
goodwill and other intangibles as percentage of our total assets;
increasingly restrictive trade and export regulations impacting our
ability to sell products, specifically within China; risks
associated with acquisitions, investments and divestitures such as
integration and synergies; constraints related to corporate
governance structures; share repurchases and related impacts;
financial or operating results that are below forecast or credit
rating changes impacting our stock price or financing ability;
law/regulatory changes and including environmental or tax law
changes; significant volatility in our stock price; the risk of
cybersecurity breaches; enforcing or defending intellectual
property claims or other litigation.
These and other risks and uncertainties are discussed more fully
in Cohu’s filings with the SEC, including our most recent Form 10-K
and Form 10-Q, and the other filings made by Cohu with the SEC from
time to time, which are available via the SEC’s website at
www.sec.gov. Except as required by applicable law, Cohu does not
undertake any obligation to revise or update any forward-looking
statement, or to make any other forward-looking statements, whether
as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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investors, please visit Cohu’s website at www.cohu.com.
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