FormFactor Inc

Type: Public
On the web: http://www.formfactor.com
Employees: 940
Employee growth: (16.4%)

Welcome to FormFactor! On tonight's show, contestants must dive off a high platform, retrieve a silicon wafer at the bottom of the water tank, and then run tests on the semiconductors! Using its interconnect technology called MicroSpring, FormFactor makes wafer probe cards that test semiconductor circuits (especially memory chips) while they are still part of semiconductor wafers -- before the wafers are cut into individual chips. FormFactor touts the process for its cost-effectiveness, since it allows testing of many chips at once across a range of scales and temperatures. Top customer Elpida Memory represents over 28% of sales. The company gets about three-fourths of revenues from the Asia/Pacific region.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2008:
Sales: $210.2M
One year growth: (54.5%)
Net income: ($80.6)M

Officers:
Chairman: James A. (Jim) Prestridge
CEO and Director: Mario Ruscev
SVP Operations: Richard M. Freeman

Competitors:
Advantest
Cascade Microtech
Everett Charles Technologies

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