teradyne (nyse:ter) is a leading supplier of automation equipment for test and industrial applications. teradyne automatic test equipment (ate) is used to test semiconductors, wireless products, data storage and complex electronic systems, which serve consumer, communications, industrial and government customers. our industrial automation products include collaborative robots used by global manufacturing and light industrial customers to improve quality and increase manufacturing efficiency. in 2014, teradyne had revenue of $1.65 billion and currently employs approximately 3,900 people worldwide. the semiconductor test division is the world's largest supplier of semiconductor test equipment for logic, rf, analog, power, mixed-signal and memory technologies. the system test group is a global leader in electronics testing solutions serving the world's leading original equipment manufacturers, electronics manufacturing services suppliers, and hard disk drive makers. the wireless tes