Rance Hale

Credence Systems Corporation is the industry provider of design-to-test solutions for the global semiconductor industry. By applying leading-edge technology to lower the overall cost-of-test, Credence delivers competitive cost and performance advantages to integrated device manufacturers, wafer foundries, outsource assembly and test suppliers and fabless chip companies worldwide. Credence was founded in 1978 and is publicly traded on the Nasdaq stock market under the symbol CMOS. Headquartered in Milpitas, California, Credence maintains a worldwide presence in twenty countries.

Xcerra Corp. engages in the provision of test and handling capital equipment, interface products, test fixtures, and services to the semiconductor and electronics manufacturing industries. The company was founded by Roger W. Blethen in 1976 and is headquartered in Norwood, MA.

Xicor, Inc., a California corporation, was founded in 1978. It is a manufacturer of nonvolatile semiconductor devices including EEPROMs, NOVRAMs, EEPOT nonvolatile digital potentiometers and microperipheral. It also processes transitioning of product development effort to the area of high performance analog mixed-signal integrated circuits