Advantest's 50th Anniversary

Organization Name :Advantest

Summary : Advantest turned 50 on July 1, 2004. It was a milestone for one of Japan's greatest tech companies. This documents that history from the company's first product, the Micro Ammeter, through it's release of its ground breaking T3340 VLSI Logic tester based on 100 MHz technology to it's T2000, T6577 SoC Tester and T5377S Memory Test System.

Advantest: What made it ...

05 Jan 2006

Toshio Maruyama reflects on the history and future of Advantest and its role in semiconductor ATE. ... See more

Takeda Riken – Growt ...

Takeda Riken, the antecedent to Advantest, was hardly known outside Japan in 1980 and by 1985 it was driving the VLSI or Very Large Scale Integration ATE market as the largest company at the time fell back. Gro ... See more

Takeda Riken Enters US ...

15 Jun 1982

Takeda Riken announces plans to enter the US ATE (automatic test equipment) market with a 5O-MHz logic semiconductor test system ... See more

Takeda Riken – Reliab ...

31 Mar 1983

Takeda Riken, the antecedent to Advantest, built it's brand on Semiconductor ATE reliability levels not seen previously outside of Japan ... See more

Advantest - ATE Cost-Ef ...

Advantest - Improvements in Cost-Efficiency via parallel memory IC test highlights from this 1986 Annual Report excerpt ... See more

Advantest - T3342 VLSI ...

Advantest - T3342 VLSI Test System :1985-89 ... See more

Semiconductor Industry ...

31 Dec 1969

The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) was founded in April 1977. The article by Ron Iscoff shows the controversy that the founding of SIA created. ... See more

Bill Tobey on his Bob G ...

06 Dec 2006

Bill Tobey on his 2006 Bob Graham Award and Lessons Learned ... See more

The Bob Graham Award

29 Nov 2004

What About Bob - Robert Graham's video biography of his career with comments about him, sometimes roasting him, from industry luminaries such as Gordon Moore, Marshall Cox, Mel Phelps, and G. Dan Hutcheson. ... See more

High Voltage Engineerin ...

High Voltage Engineering shipped the first commercial Ion Implanter, built in 1965 by Peter Rose. But it was not a Megavolt System such as depicted here. ... See more