Israel Niv

Credence Systems Corporation is the industry provider of design-to-test solutions for the global semiconductor industry. By applying leading-edge technology to lower the overall cost-of-test, Credence delivers competitive cost and performance advantages to integrated device manufacturers, wafer foundries, outsource assembly and test suppliers and fabless chip companies worldwide. Credence was founded in 1978 and is publicly traded on the Nasdaq stock market under the symbol CMOS. Headquartered in Milpitas, California, Credence maintains a worldwide presence in twenty countries.

Part of Applied Materials, Inc., Opal, Inc. is a private company that makes electronic microscope systems used in manufacturing integrated circuits. The company is based in Santa Clara, CA. Opal was acquired by Orion Corp I on January 10, 1997 for $175 million.

Part of Cohu, Inc., Optonics, Inc. develops integrated solutions used for emission-based optical diagnostics and failure analysis for advanced semiconductor products. The company is based in Mountain View, CA. The company was founded by Israel Niv, Nader Pakdaman, James S. Vickers. Optonics was acquired by Credence Systems Corp. on January 22, 2003 for $17.52 million.

Silicom Ventures LLC (Silicom Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Gadi Behar. The firm is headquartered in Los Altos, California.

FEI EFA, Inc. designs and manufactures electronic semiconductors. The firm develops and sells circuit analysis and edit tool for wafer and package semiconductor products. It provides Meridian WaferScan for backside wafer-level analysis. The company was founded by Israel Niv in 2008 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Attolight AG manufactures edge cathodoluminescence instruments to measure carrier dynamics in nanostructures. It also distributes electron microscopes. The company was founded by Samuel Sonderegger and Jean Berney in 2008 and is headquartered in Ecublens, Switzerland.