Xandex

Xandex Inc. was Incorporated August 22, 1980, by three Fairchild Semiconductor employees and their friends. The founders shared the classic Silicon Valley entrepreneurial spirit -- a desire to create and develop their own start-up. The original company product -- the first of its type in the arena of semiconductor wafer testing -- was the DieMark ® disposable-cartridge inker. The DieMark ® system enabled deposition of up to 150,000 uniform, round ink dots, as small as the width of a human hair, from a single pre-filled, pre-tuned cartridge. The cartridge itself was disposable, consistent, easy to install, use and replace. Today, DieMark ® products have worldwide distribution throughout North America, the EU and Asia. In January of 1982, Kamran Shamsavari joined Xandex as President. The Shamsavari family provided funding and leadership in bringing the first DieMark products to market. Leading semiconductor manufacturers immediately accepted the DieMark concept. Texas Instruments became the first DieMark customer and others soon followed. Today Xandex is the recognized industry leader for wafer marking solutions worldwide. As semiconductor test technology evolved, Xandex initiated multiple R&D projects to develop new test solutions and commercialize new technologies in the areas of probe card transport, test head to prober/handler docking and high fidelity electrical interconnects. The resulting products gained wide acceptance with OEMs and are in service around the world.