Advantest Again Climbs List of Largest Semiconductor Equipment
Suppliers
Strong Customer Demand for Advantest's Memory and SoC Testers Drives Continued
Robust Growth
SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Advantest Corporation
(NYSE:ATE)(TSE:6857), the world's largest supplier of semiconductor test
equipment, today announced another milestone in its dramatic growth trend.
According to VLSI Research Inc, Advantest climbed two slots in the
market-research firm's annual list of the world's top 10 semiconductor
equipment suppliers. Its remarkable nine-place jump in just two years places
Advantest in the top four for 2004, surpassed only by Applied Materials, Tokyo
Electron Ltd. and ASML.
Advantest's rapid rise up the VLSI Research rankings is attributable both to
continued strong demand for its industry-leading memory testers and to the
company's fast-growing share of the system-on-chip (SoC) test market -- due in
large part to the introduction of its innovative T2000 open-architecture SoC
test platform. "Advantest continues to display an impressive ability to
provide the industry with the test technology it needs while pursuing lower
cost of test, improved interoperability and other key test-capability
advancements," said VLSI Research CEO G. Dan Hutcheson. "We expect its great
performance to continue to improve as the company's technology becomes
increasingly essential to helping IC makers achieve critical time-to-market
goals." According to R. Keith Lee, president and CEO of Advantest America, Inc., "This
development is clearly significant for Advantest, as well as for our customers,
who continue to benefit from our combination of technology leadership and
innovation. As the VLSI Research report indicates, we have grown our sales
nearly fourfold in the last two years -- an achievement we accredit to our
proven ability to anticipate market needs, delivering the right solutions at
the right time." 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 of Advantest America, Inc., +1-212-850-6670, or, ; or Ellen Van Etten of MCA, +1-650-968-8900, or , for Advantest Corporation Web site: http://www.advantest.com/
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