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The Company
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2012
The Company

A. The Company

Teradyne, Inc. (“Teradyne”) is a leading global supplier of automatic test equipment. Teradyne’s automatic test equipment products and services include:

 

   

semiconductor test (“Semiconductor Test”) systems,

 

   

military/aerospace (“Mil/Aero”) test instrumentation and systems, storage test (“Storage Test”) systems, and circuit-board test and inspection (“Commercial Board Test”) systems (collectively these products represent “Systems Test Group”), and

 

   

wireless test (“Wireless Test”) systems.