Agreement Reached to Create New Wafer Testing Company - Addendum

Overview of the new company

Name:	Tera Probe, Inc.
Head office:	Tokyo Chuo ward
Business location:	Higashi Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture Sagamihara City, Kanagawa Prefecture
Company president:	Masahide Ozawa (to be confirmed)
Capital:	¥5.6 billion
Major shareholders and investment ratio:	Elpida Memory, Inc.: 33.0% Advantest Corporation: 17.0% Kingston Technology Japan, LLC: 26.8% Powertech Technology Inc.: 23.2%
No. of employees:	About 300
Main business operations:	Wafer testing Probe process development Other related testing business & technology development For reference: Semiconductor processes Upstream: Wafer processing + wafer testing* Downstream: Assembly + final testing The main business of the new company will be concerned with upstream operations (*: specifically, wafer testing).

Information in this news release is current as of the timing of the release, but may be revised later without notice.