News Release

July 23, 2004 - Boston Corporate Finance Advises Inspex on the Sale of DMSVision Assets

WESTWOOD, MA - Boston Corporate Finance, Inc., a technology-focused investment banking firm, announced today that ithas successfully advised Inspex Inc., a leading designer and manufacturer of semiconductor wafer inspection hardware andsoftware, in its sale of certain core assets to August Technology Corporation (Nasdaq: AUGT).

Roberta E. Benson, Director of Operations of Inspex Inc. (Inspex), commented, "We are very pleased to have realized thisstrategic initiative with August Technology Corporation and believe it will have substantial benefits for our currentDMSVision customers."

John Johansen, Director of Sales and Marketing for Inspex said, "DMSVision is well positioned as a high performance,stable, third generation database that has evolved through partnerships with many top 10 semiconductor companies.Historically, Inspex has focused primarily on Micro-defect inspection; there are many synergies between core capabilitieswithin the Inspex DMS engineering group and the Macro-defect inspection capabilities at August Technology. Thesesynergies combined with August Technology's large installed base of automated inspection systems, installed at leadingmicroelectronic device manufacturers around the world, provide the foundation to drive innovative and comprehensivedetection-to-decision yield solutions."

About Boston Corporate Finance, Inc.

Headquartered in Westwood, MA, Boston Corporate Finance, Inc. is a private investment banking firm focused on providing traditional investment banking advisory services to high growth companies primarily in the technology sector. BCF's senior professionals have both global, as well as, regional investment banking experience with firms including KPMG Corporate Finance and Advest, Inc. Additional company information can be obtained on the World Wide Web at www.bostoncf.com or by calling (781) 320-3200.

About Inspex, Inc.

Inspex has been one of the semiconductor industry's foremost designers and manufacturers of leading-edge wafer inspectionhardware and software for over 25 years. Inspex is wholly owned subsidiary of Photonics Management Corporation, adivision of $500M conglomerate Hamamatsu K.K; a Nikkei listed company under the number 6965.

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