Technoprobe

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



History
In 1995, Giuseppe Crippa (born 1935), after concluding a notable 35-year tenure at STMicroelectronics with a severance package, embarked on a new entrepreneurial journey. Rather than embracing retirement, Crippa, then aged 60, seized the chance to establish his venture. Leveraging an idea he had been nurturing for years, he founded Technoprobe in a quaint town near Milan. Initially specializing in probe cards, small needle-studded discs vital for testing microchips, Crippa's enterprise primarily served his former employer for the initial 15 years. Displaying remarkable ingenuity, Crippa devised a method to manufacture probe cards in his kitchen, circumventing the lengthy repair processes often associated with such components. Over the subsequent 27 years, Technoprobe burgeoned into one of the premier manufacturers of probe cards globally, catering to esteemed clients like Apple, Qualcomm, and Samsung, alongside leading semiconductor firms such as AMD and Intel.

Timeline
1996 Technoprobe is founded in Merate by Giuseppe Crippa

1997 The company acquires its first building in Cernusco Lombardone

2000 The first probe Cobra is launched on the market

2001 Expansion abroad by opening a sales office in Rousset, France

2003 First manufacturing facility and service center is opened abroad in Singapore

2007 Technoprobe achieves a milestone by marketing the first probe card with vertical MEMS and opening in the USA with the foundation of Technoprobe America, in San Jose, California

2010 Foundation of Technoprobe Philippines, in Cabuyao

2013 New factory in Italy to increase production

2015 Expansion in Korea with a new production facility in Suwon

2017 A new factory is built in Cernusco Lombardone, Italy; becomes the world's third largest manufacturer of probe cards

2018 Expansion into Japan

2019 Technoprobe acquires Microfabrica, a US company engaged in high-volume, microscale additive manufacturing; opens a new production facility in China and a support office in Taiwan

2020 Becomes the world's second largest probe cards manufacturer

2021 Opens a new research and development facility for Microfabrica technologies in Agrate Brianza

2022 Technoprobe becomes a public company, on February 15 the shares are available for trading on Milan's stock exchange; opens a new R&D center near Catania, Italy

2023 Acquisition of Harbor Electronics, based in Santa Clara, California; Teradyne acquires a 10% equity stake and sells its device interface solutions division to Technoprobe