Fairchild Semiconductor Deploys Advantest Tester for Wafer-Probe Application
October 18 2005 - 11:45AM
PR Newswire (US)
Installation on Wafer Probe Floor Highlights Advantest's
Capabilities SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Advantest Corporation (TSE:6857TSE:NYSE:TSE:ATE), the world's
largest supplier of semiconductor test equipment, today announced
that Fairchild Semiconductor has selected the Advantest T6573
system-on-chip (SoC) platform for processing high-volume
serializer/deserializer (SerDes) ICs used in consumer and ultra
portable applications. The SoC platform was recently installed on
the wafer testing floor -- a new application for Advantest at
Fairchild's South Portland, Maine, facility, where previously
purchased Advantest T65XX and T66XX SoC testers are employed in
characterization and final package test. "Over the years, Advantest
has proved to be a highly valued supplier," said Jean Boisvert,
principal engineer in Fairchild's wafer/sort section. "We chose the
Advantest tool both for its proven performance and its
compatibility with our existing Advantest products. The company's
platforms offer high performance and parallel test together with a
very small footprint-all capabilities essential to volume wafer
probing, where both speed and accuracy are essential." Noted Makoto
Nakahara, Advantest America's vice president of sales, "We are very
pleased to have this opportunity to further expand our relationship
with Fairchild -- until now, we had not installed a tool on their
probe floor. Moreover, this application illustrates the breadth of
Fairchild's capabilities within the semiconductor industry. While
the company is known for its power devices, this application
illustrates its strength in other IC markets as well. We look
forward to a continued close alliance with this important
customer." Advantest's steady climb within the SoC and other
complex or high performance IC test sectors, such as volume wafer
probing, is evident in the company's continued market gains. At a
growth rate of more than 100 percent per year, the company's
revenues from SoC tester sales outpaced the overall growth of the
SoC tester market over the past two years. In addition to
leapfrogging competitors to achieve the number-two slot in the SoC
market, Advantest remains the market and technology leader in
memory IC test systems and pick-and-place handlers, as well. About
Fairchild Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE:FCS) is the leading global
supplier of high-performance power products critical to today's
leading electronic applications in the computing, communications,
consumer, industrial and automotive segments. As The Power
Franchise(R), Fairchild offers the industry's broadest portfolio of
components that optimize system power through minimization,
conversion, management and distribution functions. Fairchild's
9,000 employees design, manufacture and market power, analog &
mixed-signal, interface, logic, and optoelectronics products from
its headquarters in South Portland, Maine, and numerous locations
around the world. The company has wafer fabrication plants in
Maine, Utah, Pennsylvania and South Korea, and assembly facilities
in Malaysia, the Philippines, and China. About Advantest Advantest
Corporation is the world's largest supplier of automatic test
equipment to the semiconductor industry. Advantest's SoC, logic,
memory, mixed-signal and RF testers and device handlers are
integrated into the most advanced semiconductor fabrication lines
in the world. Founded in Tokyo in 1954, Advantest established its
North American subsidiary in 1982 and its European subsidiary in
1984. More information is available at http://www.advantest.com/
DATASOURCE: Advantest Corporation CONTACT: Amy Gold, Advantest
America, Inc., +1-212-850-6670, ; Barbara Palmer, Palmer
Communications, +1-914-725-8057, Web site:
http://www.advantest.com/
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