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16 SMT007 MAGAZINE I JANUARY 2024 Feature Interview by Barry Matties I-CONNECT007 Roberto Gatti is CEO of Delvitech, a Swiss company that has launched a new genera- tion of AOI utilizing an AI neural network. As Roberto explains, their approach was not to bring another AOI machine to the market; instead, they focused on bringing a new tech- nology to an AOI system. Barry Matties: As you enter the crowded AOI market space with a new system, I am curious what inspired you to do this. Roberto Gatti: To start, we did a complete study and assessment of the AOI market around the world, and we found areas that were not addressed by our competitors. Basi- cally, we had two choices. We could enter the market with a machine and strategy like what was already out there and try to compete on price, or we could do something completely different. We chose to be different, with a new generation of AOI driven by AI. With that, we invested 30–40 million euro and developed a totally different system. We are offering a single system with two dif- ferent concepts. One has an optical head that is fixed and the board moving. e other is with A New Generation of AI AOI Roberto Gatti