“Joe Belmonte, the product manager for Speedline’s Advanced Technology Group, and I put together over 30 years of process engineering and R&D experience at our respective companies to develop this ‘Lead-free Implementation Checklist’,” says Chrys Shea, manager of R&D applications engineering at Cookson Electronics. “Our informal discussion on the subject very quickly evolved into a formal process of collecting and cataloging all of the information required to run lead-free processes. Our overriding goal was to help our customers plan and execute the lead-free transition by not only providing a methodical framework to follow, but also alerting them to some of the potential pitfalls they may not have previously envisioned.”

(May 2, 2005) Taipei, Taiwan &#8212 ASE Test Limited announces a first-quarter diluted loss of $0.14 per share, which ended March 31, 2005, under generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (U.S. GAAP), compared with diluted earnings of $0.08 per share one year ago, and a diluted loss of $0.41 per share in the fourth quarter of 2004. Under generally accepted accounting principles in China (ROC GAAP), ASE reports a first-quarter diluted loss of $0.15 per share, compared with diluted earnings of $0.09 per share one year ago, and diluted loss of $0.27 per share in the fourth quarter of 2004. The company’s first-quarter net losses amounted to $13.6 million under U.S. GAAP and $15.2 million under ROC GAAP.