Aehr Receives Wafer Level Burn-in System Order from New Major Supplier of Silicon Carbide Semiconductors
September 13 2022 - 7:30AM
Aehr Test Systems (NASDAQ: AEHR), a worldwide
supplier of semiconductor production test and reliability
qualification equipment, today announced it has received
a purchase order from a new customer for a FOX-NPTM multi-wafer
test and burn-in system, multiple WaferPakTM Contactors and a FOX
WaferPak Aligner to be used for qualification of Aehr’s wafer level
burn-in solution for silicon carbide devices for electric vehicles
and other markets. This company is a major supplier of silicon
carbide devices serving several significant markets including the
electric vehicle industry. This order has acceptance criteria
including demonstrating certain new enhancements and functionality
criteria offered by Aehr and stipulated under a corresponding
evaluation and acceptance agreement. Upon successful completion of
the specified criteria, final acceptance of the purchase order is
met, and title transfer and invoicing will be completed.
This FOX system is configured for stress testing and burning in
150mm and 200mm silicon carbide wafers using Aehr’s proprietary
WaferPak full wafer Contactors. The FOX-NP system and FOX WaferPak
Aligner are scheduled to ship this week to the customer’s
facility.
Gayn Erickson, President and CEO of Aehr Test Systems,
commented, “We are very excited that this new customer has chosen
to move forward with us after we demonstrated the capability and
configurability of the FOX platform full wafer test and burn-in
solution using our systems and their silicon carbide wafers at our
facility in Fremont, California. This company has indicated to us
that no other provider has a product that is scalable to high
volume production like Aehr’s FOX-XP multi-wafer system. The FOX-NP
system is a two-wafer system that is fully compatible with the
volume production FOX-XP, which can be configured with up to nine
or eighteen wafers depending on the customer’s specific test
requirements and power configuration. This allows our customers to
choose between larger and smaller configuration systems that are
100% compatible with each other at their facilities around the
world. The purchase order for the FOX-NP system includes specific
performance and functionality evaluation criteria that we believe
Aehr will achieve on their test floor during the next three to six
months which triggers final acceptance of the solution. They have
provided us with forecasts for our FOX-XP systems for volume
production of their silicon carbide devices at multiple facilities
around the world, with initial delivery for our FOX-XP systems
requested during this fiscal year ending May 31, 2023.
“Forecasts from Canaccord Genuity estimate that the silicon
carbide market for devices in electric vehicles, such as traction
inverters and the on-board chargers, is expected to grow from fewer
than 150,000 wafers in 2021 to more than four million 6-inch
equivalent wafers in 2030 to meet the demand of the automotive
electric vehicle market, representing a growth rate of over 25
times the current wafer capacity just for the in-vehicle devices.
Canaccord also estimates that the silicon carbide market will
require an additional four million silicon carbide wafers annually
by 2030 to meet demand for electrification infrastructure,
industrial and photovoltaic power devices.
“The FOX family of compatible systems including the FOX-NP and
FOX-XP multi-wafer test and burn in systems and Aehr’s proprietary
WaferPak full wafer contactors provide a uniquely cost-effective
solution for burning in multiple wafers of devices at a single time
to remove early life failures of silicon carbide devices which is
critical to meeting the initial quality and long-term reliability
the automotive, industrial, and electrification infrastructure
industry needs.”
The FOX-XP and FOX-NP systems, available with multiple WaferPak
Contactors (full wafer test) or multiple DiePakTM Carriers
(singulated die/module test) configurations, are capable of
functional test and burn-in/cycling of devices such as silicon
carbide and gallium nitride power semiconductors, silicon photonics
as well as other optical devices, 2D and 3D sensors, flash
memories, magnetic sensors, microcontrollers, and other
leading-edge ICs in either wafer form factor, before they are
assembled into single or multi-die stacked packages, or in
singulated die or module form factor.
About Aehr Test SystemsHeadquartered in
Fremont, California, Aehr Test Systems is a worldwide provider of
test systems for burning-in semiconductor devices in wafer level,
singulated die, and package part form, 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 ABTSTM and
FOX-PTM families of test and burn-in systems and FOX WaferPakTM
Aligner, FOX 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 silicon carbide-based
power semiconductors, 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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related to long-term demand for Aehr’s productions and the
attractiveness of key markets. The forward-looking statements
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date of this press release.
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