KLA-Tencor and StatSoft Bring Never Before Available Technology to the Semiconductor Industry

KLA-Tencor, a world leader in yield management and process control solutions, and StatSoft, Inc., one of the largest producers of statistics and analytic graphics software in the world, recently announced a new partnership to bring advanced data mining and statistical decision-making technology to the semiconductor and related industries.

The partnership combines StatSoft's robust tools for Data Mining and Design of Experiments (DOE) with KLA-Tencor's ACE XP software for optimizing yield management to uniquely address complex issues, resulting in new technology and sophistication that has never before been available.

KLA-Tencor is committed to meeting the needs of its customers with the most sophisticated technology available, and they chose to partner with StatSoft because their products have continually been the most comprehensive and the highest rated among statistics software programs.

StatSoft has worked with KLA-Tencor to integrate its Data Mining software for uncovering hidden trends, explaining known patterns, and predicting the future, and its experimental design techniques (based on more than 16 years of experience in the quality control industry) with KLA industry knowledge.

"We are confident that the industry specific expertise of KLA-Tencor combined with our comprehensive library of techniques for data mining and quality control will provide a cutting-edge solution highly profitable for KLA customers and the industry," says StatSoft Manager of International Operations, Win Noren.

About KLA-Tencor
KLA-Tencor (www.kla-tencor.com) is the world leader in yield management and process control solutions for semiconductor manufacturing and related industries. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., the company has sales and service offices around the world. An S&P 500 company, KLA-Tencor is traded on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol KLAC.

About StatSoft, Inc.
StatSoft, Inc. (www.statsoft.com), founded in 1984, is now one of the largest producers of enterprise and single-user software for Data Analysis, Data Mining, Quality Control/Six Sigma, and Web-Based Analytics. Its products are used worldwide at most major universities, corporations, and government agencies and are distributed and supported with training and consulting services by a worldwide network of StatSoft subsidiaries and a large number of authorized distributors. STATISTICA has received the highest rating in EVERY comparative review in which it has been featured since its first release in 1993.

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