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KULICKE AND SOFFA INDUSTRIES, INC.

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John A. O’Steen

Chairman, Management Development and Compensation Committee

Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc.

2101 Blair Mill Road

Willow Grove PA 19090

 

February 4, 2005

 

Dear Shareholder:

 

I am the Chairman of the Company’s Management Development and Compensation Committee. I am writing to follow-up on a concern regarding the Company’s proposed 2005 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”). I want to confirm to you that it was the Committee’s intention at the time that it reviewed and approved the Plan, and it continues to be the Committee’s intention, that awards issued under the Plan would be made by the Committee over the course of not less than five years, beginning not earlier than the Company’s fiscal 2007.

 

If you would like to discuss this matter with me, please do not hesitate to telephone.