• On June 2, Agilent is now a fully independent company focusing on high-growth markets in communications, electronics and life sciences. Recognized as an industry leader, Agilent is first worldwide in the test and measurement market.
  
  
• The V93000 family: More than 100 systems are installed at customer sites around the world.

• HP co-founder William R. Hewlett dies on January 12.
  
  
• The Quad-Site Wireless Baseband Test is introduced, with concurrent test for simultaneous testing of multiple IP blocks on a single device, significantly increasing throughput and lowering cost of test. This becomes the first RF test solution based on the V93000 platform.

• Agilent has its first listing on Fortune magazine's list of the top 500 U.S. companies: No. 212.

• Agilent continues to be a leader in high-speed test with 2.5 Gbps for testing state-of-the-art interfaces.
  
  
• The V93000 family: More than 500 systems are installed at customer sites around the world.

• The Versatest 5X00 is introduced, with scalable platform architecture and massive parallelism, for testing memory devices, including flash memory and multi-chip packages (MCPs).
  
  
• >A new generation Pin-Electronic is introduced for the V93000 platform, offering twice the pin-count (or number of channels) as the previous generation.

• William P. (Bill) Sullivan is named Agilent President and CEO succeeding Edward W. (Ned) Barnholt.
  
  
• Agilent forms joint venture, Chengdu Instruments Division, to develop and manufacture test equipment for China and global market.
  
  
• Agilent establishes Agilent Technologies China Holding HP Ltd., based in Shanghai, to consolidate its entities in China.
  
  
• Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and Silver Lake Partners acquire Agilent’s Semiconductor Products Group.
  
  
• A high-speed pin electronic with 3.6 Gbps is introduced for the V93000.
  
  
• The V93000 family: More than 1000 systems are installed at customer sites around the world.

• Leadership in high-speed test continues, introducing rates of 12.8 Gbps for testing interfaces "today and tomorrow."
  
  
• Verigy Limited, a Singapore company, is established in June 2006, and the semiconductor test business begins doing business as Verigy. Close to five decades after HP became a public corporation, Verigy issues its first stock offering at $16.25, just slightly higher than the initial HP stock offering of $16.00 in 1957.
  
  
• Keith Barnes is named CEO and Chairman of the Board of Verigy.
  
  
• Introduction of the first V93000 based solution for High Speed Memory devices; XDR,DDR, GDDR devices. This solution covers both Design Verification and high volume production.
  
  
• A new manufacturing and distribution-site in China is established; ramping first with the V5000 products.

• Verigy completes its first year of business operations as a profitable independent company.
  
  
• Verigy introduces Port Scale RF, providing the highest test efficiency at minimal cost of test with up to 48 ports, true quad-site and true multisite parallel efficiencies.
  
  
• Verigy acquires Inovys, the leader in the provision of solutions for yield management, after a successful collaboration at a major customer that resulted in significant savings in the ramp up of a new product.
  
  
• The next generation quad-density Pin-Electronic for the V93000 is introduced.
  
  
• The Chinese manufacturing facility produces its first V93000, which shipped to a customer location in Asia.
  
  
• The V9300 family grows: More than 1500 systems are installed at customer sites around the world.

• Verigy completes its second year of profitable operation as an independent corporation.
  
  
• Jorge Titinger is appointed Chief Operating Officer, reporting to Keith Barnes.
  
  
• The V93000 family expands: More than 2000 systems are installed at customer sites around the world.
  
  
• Verigy shortens SoC manufacturer's time to yield with the addition of the Inovys Silicon Debug Solution for the V93000 platform.
  
  
• The V93000 Port Scale RF solution is rapidly adopted with more than 100 systems installed worldwide during the year.
• The V6000 is introduced for testing both flash and DRAM memory on the same automated test equipment (ATE) platform, at breakthrough cost-of-test. The V6000 is versatile and scalable across the entire semiconductor memory test process, including engineering, wafer sort, and final test.
  
  
• The company opens an office in Petach Tikva, Israel. Verigy established a wholly-owned subsidiary in Israel to focus on sales, service, and support for the region.
  
  

• The company achieves the number one supplier ranking among automated test equipment (ATE) users in the VLSI Research, Inc 2009 Customer Satisfaction Survey.
  
  
• Touchdown Technologies (TDT) is acquired. TDT designs, manufactures, and supports advanced MEMS probe cards for the production wafer test needs of worldwide semiconductor manufacturers.
  
  

• Verigy named #1 Semiconductor Test company in VLSI Research’s 2010 Customer Satisfaction Survey for the second year in a row. Verigy also ranks #3 in customer satisfaction among all large equipment companies.
  
  
• Verigy adds mixed-signal testing capability to its V101 platform.
  
  

• Verigy ships its 250th V93000 Port Scale RF test system.
  
  

• Verigy delivers the V93000 HSM6800 high-speed memory system with up to 8-Gbps-per-pin capability to its first customer.
  
  

• Verigy introduces the V93000 HSM3G, a high-speed memory test solution offering low cost of test for DDR3, DDR4 and beyond.
  
  

• Touchdown Technologies introduces the 1Td300 – a single-touchdown, full-wafer probe card for advanced DRAM testing.
  
  

• Verigy adds a Direct-Probe™ solution to its V93000 platform.
  
  

• Verigy receives SEMI's first Advanced Testing Innovation Award.
  
  

2011

• Verigy delivers best customer satisfaction among ATE suppliers for the third consecutive year in the VLSIresearch survey. Verigy is also named Best Semiconductor Test Equipment Supplier in both Korea and China.
  
  

• On March 28, Advantest Corporation and Verigy enter into a definitive agreement under which Advantest would acquire all outstanding Verigy ordinary shares for US$15.00 per share in cash.
  
  

• Verigy V93000 HSM3G solution honored with Test Product of the Year award and named Best in Test
  
  

• In June, Advantest’s proposed acquisition of Verigy receives Department of Justice clearance and Verigy shareholders approve the proposed acquisition of Verigy by Advantest Corporation.
  
  

• On July 4, Advantest Corporation completes its acquisition of Verigy in an all-cash transaction, estimated to be approximately $1.1 billion and Verigy becomes an Advantest Group company. As a result of the acquisition, Verigy shareholders receive $15.00 per share in cash for each Verigy ordinary share they owned. Verigy notifies NASDAQ and requests that trading of Verigy ordinary shares be suspended.  
  
  

• Verigy launches the semiconductor industry’s first scalable class of testers – V93000 Smart Scale - to lower the cost of test for next-generation ICs.
  
  

• Verigy reaches a major milestone with the installation of its 2,500th V93000 system-on-chip (SOC) test platform.