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yieldHUB

yieldHUB (formerly MFG Vision) is an Ireland‑based provider of advanced yield management and data analytics software for the semiconductor industry. Founded in 2005 in Limerick by John O’Donnell, the company supports IDMs and fabless firms worldwide with scalable data-driven yield optimization tools.

🔹 Company Overview

• Founded: 2005 (as MFG Vision; rebranded to yieldHUB in 2018)

• Founder & CEO: John O’Donnell

• Headquarters: Limerick, Ireland; with offices in the UK, USA (Massachusetts and Los Angeles), Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and the Philippines

• Company Size: About 50–200 employees globally

• Industry: Semiconductor manufacturing, yield management analytics, test data analytics

🌍 Global Footprint

yieldHUB operates globally, delivering cloud-based and on-premise solutions across 21 countries and serving over 1,000 users in leading semiconductor firms. In the past year alone, the platform has analyzed data from more than 60 billion chips.

🛠️ Platform & Features

Core Platform Capabilities

yieldHUB offers an end-to-end yield analysis platform with features including:

• Data traceability, cleansing, and consolidation

• Outlier detection, statistical analysis (ANOVA, multivariate analysis)

• Parametric and bin analysis, wafer map stacking and drift visualization

• Program change detection, gage R&R, multi-die package correlation

• Automated reporting, real-time monitoring, customizable alerts

Workflow Stages Supported

• New Product Introduction (NPI): virtual retest, drift/bin/gage analysis

• Production monitoring: site vs site comparisons, data stacking, anomaly detection

• Advanced Analytics: AI-powered predictions of yield, reliability, and equipment efficiency; image analysis for defect detection in advanced packaging and CMOS sensor workflows

Architecture & Deployment

• Offers both cloud-based (browser accessible) and on-premise deployment

• Designed for large-scale analytics—able to stack and analyze hundreds to thousands of wafers in seconds

• Built-in collaboration features like in-platform commenting, chat-style workflows, and shared dashboards

🎓 Customers & Use Cases

• Trusted by both fabless startups and established IDMs, including clients like Diodes, Intel, Raspberry Pi, LG Electronics, Microchip, and Infineon

• Ideal for fast-growing semiconductor firms during NPI and full-scale production ramp-up

• Focus sectors include automotive, industrial electronics, telecommunications, defense, display technology, and consumer electronics

📈 Impact & Benefits

• Enables 2–3% yield improvement, which can translate into hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars in savings per product line, depending on volume and margins

• Reduces engineering workload and accelerates time-to-insight (turning days/weeks of data analysis into minutes)

• Supports energy efficiency and sustainability by reducing test redundancy and equipment idle time through improved yield and OEE monitoring

🧠 Leadership & Culture

• CEO & Founder: John O’Donnell — former test engineer turned entrepreneur, who created yieldHUB in response to everyday engineering data challenges

• Expert Leadership Team: Includes yield experts like Carl Moore, with decades of semiconductor test and manufacturing experience

• Company values: Customer‑obsession, agility, trustworthiness, empathy, innovation, global teamwork

📋 Company Summary