Low cost (particularly in regions where labor rates are low)

• Capital expenditures are limited
• Equipment is easily maintained
• Cost can be distributed across projects

Flexibility

• Useful in high-mix environments
• Can scale with demand - programmers can be quickly added without captial expenditure approval

Adequate quality for some applications

• Dependent on availability of skilled operators to catch problems as they happen
• Rework, reprogramming, and repair can take place at the same process step

High Speed / High Density Manual Flash Device Programmers