Technoprobe

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Technoprobe
Company type Società per azioni
BIT:  TPRO
Industry Semiconductors
Founded1996;28 years ago (1996) in Merate, Italy
FounderGiuseppe Crippa
Headquarters,
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Stefano Felici (CEO)
Products Probe cards
RevenueIncrease2.svg 550 million (2022)
Number of employees
2700
Website technoprobe.com

Technoprobe is a designer and manufacturer of probe cards and measurement technologies for integrated circuits headquartered in Italy. [1]

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Technoprobe Headquarters

History

Technoprobe was founded in Merate near Milan in 1996 by Giuseppe Crippa, who had developed a new and more rapid method to manufacture probe cards. [2] As the company grew, it opened manufacturing and sales offices abroad, including in Rousset, France (2001), Singapore (2003), San Jose, California (2007), Philippines (2010), Korea (2015), and Japan (2018).

In 2007, Technoprobe marketed the first probe card with vertical MEMS. [3]

By 2017, it was the world's third largest manufacturer of probe cards, [4] and by 2020, it was second largest. [2] [5] [6]

It became a public company in 2022, with shares available for trading at Milan's stock exchange. [7]

In 2023, Technoprobe acquired Harbor Electronics, a company based in Santa Clara, California. [8] Teradyne acquired a 10% equity stake and sold its device interface solutions division to Technoprobe [9]

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