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

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

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

Andy Grove on the devel ...

15 Jun 2004

Andy Grove talks at IMEC 2004 - the Intel Manufacturing Excellence Conference - about the history of manufacturing and how early practices entered into the Intel legacy flow. Topics include issues deploying new ... See more

Gary Patton: What Math ...

Gary Patton never knew he wanted to be a scientist when he was a kid. ... See more

Nippon Seiko - TZ-310 E ...

TZ-310 Multi-Function System for Semiconductor Production ... See more

Transistor Automation - ...

30 Jun 1975

Here is a workhorse of the early industry, the Teledyne TAC model XY540 wafer prober. An improved version of a still earlier transistor tester, it was revered by the manufacturing side of the industry for its l ... See more