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 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 – 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

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

IBM’s development of ...

22 Sep 1997

IBM was first with copper interconnect for semiconductors. It marked the successful culmination of a decade-long search for a material to replace aluminum. ... See more

KULICKE & SOFFA - 50th ...

KULICKE & SOFFA - 50th Anniversary ... See more

Nikon - 25 Years of Inn ...

25 Years of Nikon Innovation traces the history of Nikon steppers from 1980 through 2005. ... See more

Building a Global Posit ...

16 Mar 2006

The second part of this three-part interview covers Applied Materials in the 1980s and its transformation into a global company. Jim Morgan talks about Japan, the Rule of Three, SEMI, and his vision of a globa ... See more