Technoprobe
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| Company type | Società per azioni |
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| BIT: TPRO | |
| Industry | Semiconductors |
| Founded | 1996 in Merate, Italy |
| Founder | Giuseppe Crippa |
| Headquarters | , |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Stefano Felici (CEO) |
| Products | Probe cards |
| Revenue |  €550 million (2022) |
Number of employees | 2700 |
| Website | technoprobe |
Technoprobe is a designer and manufacturer of probe cards and measurement technologies for integrated circuits headquartered in Italy.[1]
History[edit]
In 1995, Giuseppe Crippa (born 1935), after concluding a notable 35-year tenure at STMicroelectronics with a severance package, embarked on a new entrepreneurial journey. Rather than embracing retirement, Crippa, then aged 60, seized the chance to establish his own venture. Leveraging an idea he had been nurturing for years, he founded Technoprobe in a quaint town near Milan. Initially specializing in probe cards, small needle-studded discs vital for testing microchips, Crippa's enterprise primarily served his former employer for the initial 15 years. Displaying remarkable ingenuity, Crippa devised a method to manufacture probe cards in his own kitchen, circumventing the lengthy repair processes often associated with such components. Over the subsequent 27 years, Technoprobe burgeoned into one of the premier manufacturers of probe cards globally, catering to esteemed clients like Apple, Qualcomm, and Samsung, alongside leading semiconductor firms such as AMD and Intel.[2]
Timeline[edit]
1996 Technoprobe is founded in Merate by Giuseppe Crippa
1997 The company acquires its first building in Cernusco Lombardone
2000 The first probe Cobra is launched on the market
2001 Expansion abroad by opening a sales office in Rousset, France
2003 First manufacturing facility and service center is opened abroad in Singapore
2007 Technoprobe achieves a milestone by marketing the first probe card with vertical MEMS[3] and opens in the USA with the foundation of Technoprobe America, in San Jose, California
2010 Foundation of Technoprobe Philippines, in Cabuyao
2013 New factory in Italy to increase production
2015 Expansion in Korea with a new production facility in Suwon
2017 A new factory is built in Cernusco Lombardone, Italy; becomes the world's third largest manufacturer of probe cards[4]
2018 Expansion into Japan
2019 Technoprobe acquires Microfabrica, a US company engaged in high-volume, microscale additive manufacturing;[5][6] opens a new production facility in China and a support office in Taiwan
2020 Becomes the world's second largest probe cards manufacturer[2][7][8][9]
2021 Opens a new research and development facility for Microfabrica technologies in Agrate Brianza[10]
2022 Technoprobe becomes a public company, on February 15 the shares are available for trading on Milan's stock exchange;[11] opens a new R&D center near Catania, Italy
2023 Acquistion of Harbor Electronics, based in Santa Clara, California;[12] Teradyne acquires a 10% equity stake and sells its device interface solutions division to Technoprobe[13]
References[edit]
- ^ "Italy's Technoprobe eyes valuation of up to 3.8 billion euros in IPO". Euronews. 4 February 2022. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
- ^ a b "How To Become A Billionaire At 87". Forbes. 1 June 2022. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
- ^ Buscaroli, Alessandro; Huseynli, Gulnar (2021). Inefficiencies reduction in the Probe Head Productive Unit of Technoprobe (PDF) (M.Sc thesis). Polytechnic University of Milan. p. 9. Retrieved 2024-03-13.
- ^ "The Week In Review: Manufacturing". Semiconductor Engineering. 14 April 2017. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
- ^ "Technoprobe to acquire Microfabrica for market expansion". BusinessAPAC.com. 19 April 2019. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
- ^ "Technoprobe to Acquire Microfabrica". Silicon Semiconductor. 2019-04-23. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
- ^ Broz, Jerry (2020-06-24). "Semiconductor Test Landscape - An Overview" (PDF). Retrieved 13 March 2024.
- ^ "Probe Card Market Size In 2023". 360 Research Reports. 3 October 2023. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
- ^ Pennisi, Salvatore (6 October 2022). "The Integrated Circuit Industry at a Crossroads: Threats and Opportunities". MDPI. Chips 1, no. 3: 150-171 (3): 150–171. doi:10.3390/chips1030010.
- ^ "Technoprobe apre un nuovo stabilimento ad Agrate" (in Italian). MerateOnline.it. 2021-01-25. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
- ^ "Technoprobe IPO progresses". globalcapital.com. 2022-02-10. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
- ^ "China's Fastprint to Sell US Chip Testing Unit to Italy's Technoprobe for USD50 Million". YcaiGlobal.com. 2023-07-05. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
- ^ "Teradyne and Technoprobe Announce Strategic Agreements to Drive Semiconductor Test Interface Innovation and Accelerate Growth". EQS-news.com. 7 November 2023. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
External links[edit]
- Official website
- Business data for Technoprobe SpA: