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To: tdk who wrote (3597)	1/3/2000 2:13:00 PM
From: klaus pluszynski	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5482

Something from the "Good News Department" :-) Orient Semiconductor Orders 300 K&S Wire Bonders WILLOW GROVE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 3, 2000--Kulicke & Soffa Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: KLIC) today announced that Orient Semiconductor Electronics, Ltd. (OSE), a major assembly subcontractor, has ordered 300 K&S Model 8028 automatic ball bonders for its production facility in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The bonders will ship during FY 2000. According to Orient Semiconductor Vice President of IC Assembly Operations N.C. Chiang, the automatic ball bonders were purchased to support a continuing ramp-up in the production of plastic ball grid array (PBGA) semiconductors. "Kulicke & Soffa's 8028 ball bonder has kept pace with our fine pitch roadmap for PBGAs," Chiang said. "The machines we purchased last year have demonstrated the ability to produce extremely complex devices with very high throughput and yields." "We are pleased that OSE is continuing to populate its factory with 8028 wire bonders," said K&S Senior Vice President Dave Leonhardt. "This order is part of an increase in demand for the 8028 resulting from the recent upturn in business along with the 8028's industry-leading throughput and fine-pitch production capability." Kulicke & Soffa is the world's largest supplier of semiconductor assembly equipment. The company provides scaleable solutions for the assembly of chip and wire, flip chip and chip scale packages. Chip and wire solutions combine wire bonding, die bonding and wafer dicing equipment with wire, capillaries, die collets, saw blades and die attach materials. Flip chip solutions include die placement equipment, flip chip bumping technology, glob top and underfill materials, and thin film laminates. K&S also offers unique CSP packaging technology as well as factory integration products and services. It has sales, service and applications development facilities worldwide. Kulicke & Soffa's web site address is www.kns.com.