NIDEC SV PROBE CORPORATION

NIDEC SV PROBE CORPORATION (ニデックSVプローブ株式会社) is a Japanese company headquartered in Toshima, Tokyo, engaged in the manufacture and sale of probe cards. It is part of the Nidec Group and is a wholly owned subsidiary of NIDEC SV PROBE PTE. LTD., which is itself a Singapore-based subsidiary of Nidec Advanced Technology. The company was established as a successor to the probe card business of Tokyo Cathode Laboratory, which filed for civil rehabilitation proceedings in 2013. Originally founded as SV TCL Corporation on July 30, 2013, it took over the probe card business of Tokyo Cathode Laboratory on September 1, 2013. It became a subsidiary of Nidec-Read (now Nidec Advanced Technology) in October 2017 and changed its name to NIDEC SV PROBE CORPORATION on April 1, 2023. The company operates from its headquarters in Ikebukuro, Toshima, Tokyo, and maintains sales offices in Osaka and Kumamoto. Its subsidiary, NIDEC SV PROBE ELECTRONICS CORPORATION (formerly Hokko Denshi Kogyo), supports its operations.

The company was established as SV TCL Corporation on July 30, 2013, as a vehicle to take over the probe card business of Tokyo Cathode Laboratory, which had filed for civil rehabilitation proceedings on March 14, 2013, due to poor performance amid a downturn among major domestic semiconductor companies. On June 25, 2013, Tokyo Cathode Laboratory signed an agreement to transfer its probe card business and shares of its overseas subsidiaries to SV Probe Pte. Ltd., a Singapore-based company. SV TCL Corporation was founded on July 30, 2013, and on September 1, 2013, it assumed the probe card business of Tokyo Cathode Laboratory. Hokko Denshi Kogyo also became a subsidiary of SV TCL. Initially, SV TCL's headquarters were located in Namegawa, Saitama Prefecture, the same location as Tokyo Cathode Laboratory's Saitama office, but in November 2015 the headquarters were moved to Toshima, Tokyo. On August 21, 2017, Nidec Corporation (then Nihon Densan) announced that its subsidiary Nidec-Read (then Nihon Densan Read) would acquire all shares of SV Probe Pte. Ltd. On October 31, 2017, SV Probe became a subsidiary of Nidec-Read, and SV TCL became a subsidiary of Nidec-Read. On September 25, 2018, SV Probe Pte. Ltd. changed its name to NIDEC SV PROBE PTE. LTD. On April 1, 2023, SV TCL changed its name to NIDEC SV PROBE CORPORATION, and Hokko Denshi Kogyo changed its name to NIDEC SV PROBE ELECTRONICS CORPORATION.

• Established as SV TCL Corporation.

• Took over the probe card business from Tokyo Cathode Laboratory.

• Moved headquarters to Toshima, Tokyo.

• Became a subsidiary of Nidec-Read (now Nidec Advanced Technology) following the acquisition of SV Probe Pte. Ltd.

• Parent company SV Probe Pte. Ltd. changed its name to NIDEC SV PROBE PTE. LTD.

• Changed company name from SV TCL Corporation to NIDEC SV PROBE CORPORATION; subsidiary Hokko Denshi Kogyo changed to NIDEC SV PROBE ELECTRONICS CORPORATION.

Manufacturer of probe cards within the Nidec Group, serving the semiconductor testing market.

• Probe cards

  Semiconductor test interface devices manufactured and sold by the company.

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