FormFactor Inc

F:FMF

FormFactor Inc

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FormFactor makes the tools chipmakers use to test silicon wafers before they are turned into finished chips. Its main products are probe cards, which are precision interfaces that touch tiny contact points on a wafer and help identify defects or verify performance. The company also sells test and measurement systems used to inspect memory chips, logic chips, and other advanced semiconductors during development and production. Its customers are semiconductor manufacturers, chip designers, and outsourced test and assembly companies that need reliable wafer-level testing. FormFactor makes money by selling this equipment, and in some cases by servicing, supporting, and upgrading it over time. Because chipmakers must test more complex wafers with ever-smaller features, the company sits in an important niche between chip design and final chip packaging. What makes FormFactor different is that its products must work at extremely fine precision and often need to be customized for specific chip types and manufacturing processes. That gives it a technical role in the semiconductor supply chain rather than a mass-market hardware role. In simple terms, FormFactor helps determine whether a chip is good enough to move forward before the expensive final steps of production.