PDF Solutions® Announces First Fiscal Quarter 201

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 21, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- PDF Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: PDFS ), the leading provider of process-design integration technologies to enhance IC manufacturability, announces the date and time that it will release financial results for its first fiscal quarter March 31, 2017.  The Company will summarize its business and financial results for these periods in a press release to be distributed at approximately 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time/ 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, April 27, 2017.  A Management Report reviewing the Company’s first fiscal quarter 2017 financial results, as well as providing updated 2017 financial outlook, will be furnished to the SEC on Form 8-K and published on the Company’s website at http://ir.pdf.com/sec.cfm . Analysts and investors are encouraged to review this commentary prior to participating in the conference call, which will follow shortly thereafter at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time / 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. On the conference call, John Kibarian, CEO, will provide a brief introduction and then Dr. Kibarian and Gregory Walker, CFO, will immediately take questions from participants. The teleconference will be webcast simultaneously on the Company’s website at http://ir.pdf.com/events.cfm .

An archive of the call will remain available until Friday, May 19, 2017, at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time.  To hear the replay when calling from within the United States or Canada, call 1-800- 585-8367.  When calling from outside of the United States or Canada, call +1- (404) 537-3406.  The access code for both replay options is 6486558.  An archive of the webcast will remain available on the Company’s website.

About PDF Solutions

PDF Solutions enables customers to reduce the time to market of integrated circuits (“ICs”), lower the cost of IC design and manufacturing and improve profitability. The Company has developed proprietary products and provides services that target the entire Process Life Cycle, which is a term used to mean the time from technology development and the design of an IC to volume manufacturing of that IC to product assembly and test.

PDF Solutions’ products and services consist of proprietary test structures and electrical test systems, physical intellectual property, enterprise platform software and professional services. The Company’s Characterization Vehicle ^® (CV ^® ) electrical test chip infrastructure provides core modeling capabilities, and is used by more leading manufacturers than any other test chips in the industry. The Design-for-Inspection™ (DFI™) solution extends the Company’s electrical characterization technologies into the e-beam measurement of extremely dense test structures, or DFI cells, across an entire fabrication process. Proprietary Template™ layout patterns for standard cell libraries optimize area, performance, and manufacturability for designing IC products. The Exensio platform for big data unlocks relevant, actionable information buried in wafer fabrication, process control and test data through four, key components: Exensio ^®  -Yield, Exensio ^®  -Control, Exensio ^®  -Test, and Exensio ^®  -Char. The Exensio ^® platform is available either on-premise or via software as a service (SaaS).

Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., PDF Solutions operates worldwide with additional offices in Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. PDF Solutions is listed on The NASDAQ National Market under the ticker symbol PDFS. For the Company’s latest news and information, visit http://www.pdf.com/ .

Characterization Vehicle, CV, Exensio, PDF Solutions, and the PDF Solutions logo are registered trademarks of PDF Solutions, Inc. or its subsidiaries. Design-for-Inspection, DFI, and Template are trademarks of PDF Solutions, Inc. or its subsidiaries.

© 2017 PDF Solutions, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.

Company Contacts: Gregory Walker Chief Financial Officer Tel: (408) 938-6457 Email: gregory.walker@pdf.com Sonia Segovia Investor Relations Coordinator Tel: (408) 938-6491 Email: sonia.segovia@pdf.com