Kulicke & Soffa Raises Guidance For Fourth Quarter to $226 Million

Kulicke & Soffa Industries, Inc. (the "Company”) (Nasdaq:KLIC) is raising its revenue guidance for the fourth fiscal quarter ending September 29, 2007. On July 19, 2007, the Company forecasted revenue for the September quarter to be about $212 million, based upon discussions with customers at that time. The Company’s revised guidance is for revenue to be about $226 million. This increase is primarily the result of additional customer orders for the Company’s wire bonding equipment. Scott Kulicke, chairman and chief executive officer of Kulicke & Soffa, stated, "The 6.6% increase over our previous guidance is partially attributable to adjustments we made to our manufacturing capacity and supply chain schedules during the quarter. Those changes have given us enough capacity to book additional equipment orders coming from our large subcontractor customers. This demand for our Maxum Ultra wire bonders provides an opportunity for the Company to satisfy our customers’ quick delivery needs and grow our leading market position.” About Kulicke & Soffa Kulicke & Soffa (NASDAQ: KLIC) is the world's leading supplier of semiconductor assembly equipment, materials, and technology. K&S provides wire bonders, capillaries, wire, die bonders, and die collets for all types of semiconductor packages using wire as the internal electrical interconnections. K&S is the only major supplier to the semiconductor assembly industry that provides customers with semiconductor assembly equipment along with the complementing packaging materials and process technology that enable our customers to achieve the highest possible yields and throughput. The ability to provide these assembly related products is unique to K&S, and allows us to develop system solutions to the new technology challenges inherent in assembling and packaging next-generation semiconductor devices. Kulicke & Soffa's web site address is http://www.kns.com. Caution Concerning Forward Looking Statements In addition to historical statements, this press release contains statements relating to future events and our future results. These statements are "forward-looking” statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, and include, but are not limited to, statements that relate to our future revenue, revenue growth, sales, customer demand, customer sentiment, business conditions, manufacturing capacity, and supply chain schedules. While these forward-looking statements represent our judgments and future expectations concerning our business, a number of risks, uncertainties and other important factors could cause actual developments and results to differ materially from our expectations. These factors include, but are not limited to: the risk of failure to successfully manage our operations; the risk that anticipated orders may not materialize or that orders received may be postponed or canceled, generally without charges; the volatility in the demand for semiconductors and our products and services; the risk that we may not be able to develop and manufacture new products and product enhancements on a timely and cost effective basis; the risk that we may have insufficient manufacturing capacity to meet customer demand, or our suppliers may not have sufficient capacity; acts of terrorism and violence; overall global economic conditions; risks, such as changes in trade regulations, currency fluctuations, political instability and war, associated with a substantial foreign customer and supplier base and substantial foreign manufacturing operations; potential instability in foreign capital markets; and the factors listed or discussed in Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. 2006 Annual Report on Form 10-K and our other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Kulicke & Soffa Industries is under no obligation to (and expressly disclaims any obligation to) update or alter its forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.