Camtek Ltd. is an Israel-based manufacturer of automated optical inspection

Automated optical inspection

Automated optical inspection is an automated visual inspection of a wide range of products, such as printed circuit boards , LCDs, transistors, automotive parts, lids and labels on product packages or agricultural products...

 (AOI) systems and related products. Products are used by semiconductor fabs, test and assembly houses, and IC substrate and printed circuit board (PCB)

Printed circuit board

A printed circuit board, or PCB, is used to mechanically support and electrically connect electronic components using conductive pathways, tracks or signal traces etched from copper sheets laminated onto a non-conductive substrate. It is also referred to as printed wiring board or etched wiring...

 manufacturers. As of 2011 Camtek has more than 2,400 installations in 34 countries.

Camtek is a public company, its shares are traded on the Nasdaq

NASDAQ

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 and Tel Aviv Stock Exchange

Tel Aviv Stock Exchange

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange in Tel Aviv is Israel's only stock exchange.The TASE is the only public market for trading securities in Israel. It plays a major role in the Israeli economy....

 (TASE), where they are included in the TA BlueTech-50 Index

TA BlueTech-50 Index

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Products

Semiconductor industry

Falcon

PCB and IC Substrates Industries

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Dragon

Orion

Pegasus

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See also

• IC substrates are used in chip-scale packaging (CSP) and ball grid array
  Ball grid array
  A ball grid array is a type of surface-mount packaging used for integrated circuits.- Description :The BGA is descended from the pin grid array , which is a package with one face covered with pins in a grid pattern. These pins conduct electrical signals from the integrated circuit to the printed...
  
   (PBGA & FCBGA) packages.
• In semiconductor industry, AOI systems inspect die
  Die (integrated circuit)
  A die in the context of integrated circuits is a small block of semiconducting material, on which a given functional circuit is fabricated.Typically, integrated circuits are produced in large batches on a single wafer of electronic-grade silicon or other semiconductor through processes such as...
  
   while they are still in wafer format.
• Silicon Wadi
  Silicon Wadi
  Silicon Wadi is an area with a high concentration of high-tech industries in the coastal plain in Israel, similar to Silicon Valley in California, in the United States. Silicon Wadi is considered second in importance only to its Californian counterpart...
  
  

External links

• Camtek Ltd. website (http://www.camtek.co.il)
  
• Asian languages sites: http://www.camtek.tw, http://www.camtek.cn, http://www.camtek.jp