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 – 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

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

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

Varian - Vacuum/Coater

varian 3135 Vacuum/Coater System ... See more

Ultratech - Positive Re ...

Ultratech - Positive Resist Develop/Rinse Station Model 504 - For automatic batch developing and rinsing positive resist on wafers and photomasks ... See more

Jim Healy and his 2001 ...

29 Nov 2004

Jim Healy was honored for the establishment of industry specific selling processes in test. Jim wrote the first book ever published on selling semiconductor equipment. ... See more

Why the Giant Computer ...

15 Jun 1985

The technology story of the 60s was about the rise of computer giants, with IBM at the vanguard. This went on through the 70s but shifted in the 80s with the advent of the PC. But it wasn’t the advent of the PC ... See more