Kulicke & Soffa Industries, Inc. (K&S) designs, manufactures and sells capital equipment and expendable tools used to assemble semiconductor devices, including integrated circuits, high and low powered discrete devices, LEDs, and power modules. It also services, maintains, repairs and upgrades its equipment. The Company’s customers primarily consist of semiconductor device manufacturers, their subcontract assembly suppliers, other electronics manufacturers and automotive electronics suppliers. K&S operates two main business segments: Equipment and Expendable Tools. On October 3, 2008, the Company completed the acquisition of Orthodyne Electronics Corporation (Orthodyne). Orthodyne is the supplier of both heavy wire wedge bonders and heavy wire wedges (the expendable tools used in wedge bonding) for the power semiconductor and hybrid module markets.