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

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

Applied Materials - End ...

12 Jul 1990

Applied Materials - Endura 5500 PVD: The first bullet-proof multi-chamber, multi-process system. It would become the most successful metallization system in the history of the semiconductor industry. ... See more

Tencor at 20 Years

Tencor (later evolved to be KLA - Tencor) is in the bedrock of the semiconductor equipment industry. It developed many products that were essential to chip manufacturing. Some are still made today. ... See more

Canon - FPA-5000 ES2 Al ...

Canon - FPA-5000 ES2 Aligner :1990s - An early DUV scanner. ... See more

Pacific Western - The P ...

30 Jun 1965

A little system that was to become one of the most favored probers on the west coast was manufactured by PWS, Pacific Western Systems Inc.... ... See more