Probelogic

STAr Technologies, a Taiwan leading provider of semiconductor probe cards and systems, has announced that it has acquired ProbeLogic, a full-fledge probe card manufacturer in the prime location of North California’s Silicon Valley. The acquisition will include assets, human resource and customer contracts. This acquisition, together with support from STAr headquarters, will provide customers with unparalleled products, services and experience by combining expertise and global sales network.

ProbeLogic, founded in 2003, is a privately held company in San Jose, CA. It has been designing, developing, and manufacturing probe cards for customers throughout North America. ProbeLogic product portfolio include high performance cantilever probe cards (fine pitch, low-k, high pin count, high temperature, multi-DUT) and vertical probe cards (flip chip and multi-DUT).

“By teaming with one of leading probe card supplier in the heart of Silicon Valley, STAr will expand its presence in North America to provide high performance quick turnaround probe card sales and services to customers,” said Dr. Choon-Leong Lou, CEO of STAr Technologies. “By combining our engineering resources, we plan to leverage ProbeLogic’s location and sales network to meet the demand of wafer testing market and deliver outstanding technology and services to new and existing customers.”

Additionally, STAr has recently obtained ACE, an Anisotropic Conductive Elastomer interconnect technology, from a leading Japanese supplier through purchase of intellectual properties and assets. The ACE technology will extent STAr’s technologies for probe cards interfaces and high-speed/frequency test sockets which supports various applications for either wafer-level or final-test requirements. STAr is aggressively broadening its coverage and supplies of critical components so as to provide integrated suite of products to its customers.

About STAr Technologies
STAr Technologies, established in August of 2000, is specialized in semiconductor test probe cards. STAr also provided parametric, reliability and functional test systems, advanced integration software and consulting service. Headquarter based in Hsinchu, STAr has subsidiaries in the US, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, China and India.