Aehr Receives Initial Order From New Customer for FOX-NP™ Solution for Production Test and Burn-in of Silicon Photonics Dev...
May 19 2020 - 7:30AM
Aehr Test Systems (NASDAQ: AEHR), a worldwide
supplier of semiconductor test and reliability qualification
equipment, today announced it has received orders from a new
customer and their subcontract manufacturing supplier for a
FOX™ solution including a FOX-NP™ full wafer test system,
an initial WaferPak™ Contactor, and a FOX WaferPak Aligner to
perform production qualification of their silicon photonics
devices. The total solution, including the FOX-NP system, WaferPak
Aligner, and WaferPak Contactor, is expected to ship prior to the
end of Aehr’s next fiscal quarter ending August 31, 2020.
This new customer will begin utilizing Aehr’s FOX-NP system for
initial production burn-in and stabilization of their high
performance silicon photonic devices and is then expected to
transition to Aehr’s FOX-XP wafer-level test and burn-in systems to
meet their volume production forecast.
The semiconductor industry today exceeds $400 billion per year
with a single CMOS chip containing as many as a billion or more
transistors, forming complex circuits that are still 100%
electrical. Using photons instead of electrons, silicon photonics
brings optical communications into the fabrication space of the
semiconductor industry, enabling low-cost, high-volume assembly and
the capability to bring faster, smaller, interconnects, which
consume less power and offer the entire semiconductor industry a
whole new world of opportunities. Silicon photonics is
expected to be the most scalable optical transceiver technology
available while delivering lowest cost per bit for 100Gb and higher
transfer speeds. Next generation data centers, high performance
computers, and eventually consumer video products will all benefit
from optical interconnects built from silicon photonics.
Gayn Erickson, President and CEO of Aehr Test Systems,
commented, “We are delighted to announce another new customer for
our FOX-P™ Platform, beginning with this initial order for our new
FOX-NP test and burn-in system to support their initial product
qualification of their high performance silicon photonics devices.
This is a 100% production test application, so unlike a sampling
burn-in process step, this customer uses the FOX system to
stabilize each device as a critical production process step, and
will need incremental capacity for FOX systems and WaferPaks with
each increment in their volume production forecast.
“In addition to the FOX-NP system, which is capable of testing
100% of the devices on each of two silicon photonics wafers in
parallel, we have also provided this customer with proposals for,
and they have told us they plan to purchase, our high volume
production FOX-XP system that is capable of testing up to 18 wafers
in parallel to meet their production needs. The FOX-XP is 100%
compatible with our dual-wafer FOX-NP and proprietary WaferPaks,
which allows our customer to make a very simple transition between
initial qualification and low volume production to high volume
production.
“We view this large player in the silicon photonics market as a
very important customer win for Aehr, and we are also encouraged to
be working with one of the world’s leading semiconductor assembly
and test subcontract manufacturers that we believe will broaden our
customer base as they market our FOX Wafer Level Test & Burn in
Systems to their installed base of customers.
“Market research company Yole Développement predicts silicon
photonics technology will grow from approximately 3.5 million
silicon photonic transceivers shipments in 2019 to 24 million units
shipped in 2025, or a CAGR of more than 37%, with a resulting
market value for transceivers expected to be worth almost $4
billion. We believe that the Silicon Photonics market will continue
to be a high growth opportunity for Aehr Test Systems for many
years.
“As a global supplier to Critical Infrastructure companies as
defined by the US government, we are taking extraordinary measures
to be able to safely operate up to nearly full capacity in
manufacturing and across the company so that we can support the
vital needs of these Critical Infrastructure customers while fully
complying with the local and state mandated ‘Shelter in Place’
directives. Through direct and indirect representatives, Aehr also
has engineers and infrastructure around the world to support our
customers and meet our contracts, response times, and critical
parts lead times for our installed base of Aehr Test systems,
WaferPaks, DiePaks®, and accessories.”
Aehr’s FOX-NP is an entry level, production proven full-wafer test solution
that allows companies to do initial production
qualification and ship thousands of devices per day, and is fully
compatible with the high-volume FOX-XP system, enabling an easier
transition to full production test. Aehr’s FOX-XP system is the
Company’s multi-wafer and singulated die/module test solution that
is designed for high volume production and can be configured to
test and burn-in up to 18 wafers of up to 1000 Watts of power per
wafer using its WaferPak contactors and up to 9 wafers of up to
2000 Watts of power per wafer using its WaferPak contactors and
DiePak carriers enabling massive parallel test and burn-in of up to
tens of thousands of devices at a time.
About Aehr Test SystemsHeadquartered in
Fremont, California, Aehr Test Systems is a worldwide provider of
test systems for burning-in and testing logic, optical and memory
integrated circuits and has installed over 2,500 systems worldwide.
Increased quality and reliability needs of the Automotive and
Mobility integrated circuit markets are driving additional test
requirements, incremental capacity needs, and new opportunities for
Aehr Test products in package, wafer level, and singulated
die/module level test. Aehr Test has developed and introduced
several innovative products, including the ABTS™ and FOX-P™
families of test and burn-in systems and FOX WaferPak™ Aligner,
FOX-XP WaferPak Contactor, FOX DiePak® Carrier and FOX DiePak
Loader. The ABTS system is used in production and qualification
testing of packaged parts for both lower power and higher power
logic devices as well as all common types of memory devices. The
FOX-XP and FOX-NP systems are full wafer contact and singulated
die/module test and burn-in systems used for burn-in and functional
test of complex devices, such as leading-edge memories, digital
signal processors, microprocessors, microcontrollers,
systems-on-a-chip, and integrated optical devices. The FOX-CP
system is a new low-cost single-wafer compact test and reliability
verification solution for logic, memory and photonic devices and
the newest addition to the FOX-P product family. The WaferPak
contactor contains a unique full wafer probe card capable of
testing wafers up to 300mm that enables IC manufacturers to perform
test and burn-in of full wafers on Aehr Test FOX systems. The
DiePak Carrier is a reusable, temporary package that enables IC
manufacturers to perform cost-effective final test and burn-in of
both bare die and modules. For more information, please visit Aehr
Test Systems’ website at www.aehr.com.
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occurring after the date of this press release.
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