Whats gone on at Teradyne so far this year?
Mr. Newman: This year has seen a recovery of sorts and it’s been fairly healthy in the semiconductor test area ‘ which is somewhat over half of our revenues ‘ but a much weaker story for the other half of the revenue, which is other business related to electronics manufacturing. So it’s been spotty, but there has been a persistent improvement in the business ‘ at least in terms of orders in the first six months of this year ‘ and it looks to us as if, on the order front, the situation will continue to improve, that these strengths will broaden to include businesses that have not been doing well so far this year and that the magnitude of improvement will increase in the third quarter and then again in the fourth quarter. It’s always risky to make projections based on order forecasts. So far, what’s on the books for the year is improvement driven primarily by semiconductor tests and the forecast shows continued improvement. We certainly hope that’s correct. TWST: But the improvement is c
