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

Canon - Various models ...

Canon - Various models of Mask Aligners :1980-84 - The only company to offer all 3 types of litho tools. ... See more

Nippon Seiko - TZ-310 E ...

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

Excerpt from 1984 Annua ...

Lam Research Corporation was founded in 1980 when advance in micro miniaturization technology produce dramatic changes in the way that integrated circuits were made. ... See more

Sumitomo Heavy Industri ...

A precursor to the excimer laser. But it was solely for X-ray wavelengths. It was an essential part of the infrastructure developed for a Next Generation Lithography technology that never materialized for other ... See more