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 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 – R ...

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

Takeda Riken – ...

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

Advantest - T3342 VLSI ...

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

Varian - The MBE GEN II ...

30 Jun 1985

Not many commercial machines get more exotic than this. It even looks like something out of StarTrek. ... See more

Fusion - UV Gemini Phot ...

Gemini-The Platform of Excellence for Photoresist Processing ... See more

Applied Materials - SPC ...

Applied Materials - SPCVD-4000 :1960s - An LPCVD tool from a time when Applied could do little right. The vacuum pump created a vibration that caused wafers to rotate in their boat. It was one of the tools Jim ... See more

1947-The Transistor is ...

16 Dec 1947

SEMI's Great Moments in Semiconductor History: In 1947, Walter Brattain and John Bardeen, working under William Shockley at AT&T Bell Laboratories… ... See more