Advantest - T3342 VLSI Test System

Advantest's 50th Annive ...

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 g ... 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: What made it ...

05 Jan 2006

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

ASML - PAS 2500/10 Step ...

15 Jun 1986

ASML - PAS 2500/10 Stepper :1985-89 ... See more

American Competitivenes ...

10 May 2006

Craig Barrett, Chairman of Intel, describes why America is losing its edge and what needs to be done about it. ... See more

GCA - The Mann 3600 Pho ...

30 Jun 1975

Here is the Mann and the man that together started two revolutions in the semiconductor capital equipment industry. ... See more

2003: Steve Nakayama

29 Nov 2004

Steve Nakayama honored for his contribution in helping globalize the semiconductor equipment industry. He talks about how ITPC got started and the methods he used to convince Japanese semiconductor executives t ... See more