PDF Solutions and Voltaiq announced their collaboration to help battery manufacturers improve yield, reduce cost, and accelerate new factory ramp-ups. This collaboration combines PDF Solutions' deep product and domain expertise for the analysis and control of semiconductor and electronics manufacturing with Voltaiq's product and domain expertise in marshaling large-scale data from across the full battery product lifecycle to accelerate and optimize every part of battery development and production. The battery industry is racing to develop new manufacturing capacity as EV industry growth continues to outpace market expectations, with the battery cell supply crunch already being felt by all battery end-cons consumers, including consumer electronics, EVs, and grid storage manufacturers.

In response, companies across the battery ecosystem have begun building new factories -- including cell manufacturers, OEM/cell manufacturer joint ventures, new Gigafactory startups, and new chemistry startups -- but these ventures face the reality of long yield ramp times, supply chain immaturity and a shortage of relevant expertise. The typical Gigafactory is expected to take several years and billions in investment to ramp up before reaching profitability. The PDF Solutions and Voltaiq integrated solution combines PDF Solutions' Exensio(R) Process Control and Manufacturing Analytics platform with Voltaiq's Enterprise Battery Intelligence(TM) platform to enable customers to fully characterize battery quality earlier in the production process, and link those characteristics to key manufacturing parameters for control and improvement.

The combined artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities from both companies provides best-in-class manufacturing and battery characterization analytics to accelerate production ramps and improve overall yield as well as mass production efficiency.