February 22, 2005 — Semi foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) and Japan’s Genesis Technology, an independent semiconductor testing company, are the two latest members of the Semiconductor Test Consortium (STC) to further bolster the Open Semiconductor Test Architecture (OPENSTAR). The OPENSTAR platform is currently supported by 36 global semiconductor, equipment, and instrumentation companies striving to enable open-architecture test solutions and emerging test requirements that will combat the growing problems of test system obsolescence, test development response time, and architecture-specific learning curves.