Aehr Receives $3.0 Million in Orders to Support Production Test and Burn-in of Silicon Carbide Power Semiconductors for Electric Vehicles
August 24 2021 - 7:30AM
Aehr Test Systems (NASDAQ: AEHR), a worldwide
supplier of semiconductor test and reliability qualification
equipment, today announced it has received purchase orders totaling
$3.0 million from its lead silicon carbide test and burn-in
customer for multiple WaferPak™ Contactors and a FOX WaferPak
Aligner to meet their increased production capacity needs for power
semiconductors for the electric vehicle market. This customer is a
leading Fortune 500 supplier of semiconductor devices with a
significant customer base in the automotive semiconductor market.
These WaferPaks and the WaferPak Aligner are expected to ship
within the next six months to accompany the previously ordered
FOX-XP systems announced last month.
Gayn Erickson, President and CEO of Aehr Test Systems,
commented, “These follow-on orders for additional WaferPaks and an
Aehr WaferPak Aligner signify a strengthening of our relationship
with this lead customer to supply them with the high-volume
production solution necessary to meet the critical quality and
reliability requirements of the electric vehicle power conversion
and electronic engine controllers. This customer continues to
forecast orders for multiple additional FOX systems and WaferPak
Contactors this fiscal year and a significant number of systems and
WaferPaks over the next several years driven by electric vehicle
semiconductor test and burn-in demand.
“The majority of the WaferPaks in these orders are for test of
yet another device that has been qualified by an Electric Vehicle
manufacturer that is ramping into production, while a few WaferPaks
are being used in the qualification of a new electric vehicle
device. Aehr’s proprietary WaferPaks are used with our silicon
carbide-focused FOX-XP systems, which are configured to test
eighteen silicon carbide wafers in parallel in the footprint of a
typical single wafer test solution. The Aehr FOX WaferPak Aligner
is used to optically align the customer wafers in our WaferPaks to
contact 100% of the devices on the wafer. Aehr provides a unique,
fully integrated solution that includes the test systems, full
wafer WaferPak Contactors, and WaferPak Aligners that can not only
test 100mm and 150mm diameter silicon carbide wafers, but can test
the future 200mm wafers planned to be introduced over the next
several years.
“Silicon carbide power semiconductors have emerged as the
preferred technology for battery electric vehicle power conversion
in on-board and off-board electric vehicle battery chargers, and
the electric power conversion and control of the electric engines.
These devices reduce power loss by as much as > 75% over power
silicon alternatives like IGBT (Insulated-gate bipolar transistor)
devices, which has essentially changed the entire market dynamic.
The challenge with silicon carbide is that it is known to have high
infant mortality rates. However, with the reliability burn-in
and screening that Aehr is able to offer with our FOX product
solutions, these defects can be removed to provide extremely
reliable devices for these mission-critical applications.
“The power semiconductor market for electric vehicles is
expected to triple between 2020 and 2026, growing at a nearly 26%
CAGR to $5.6 billion, according to Yole research. And a report
from Deloitte forecasts total electric vehicle sales will grow
at a CAGR of 29% from 2020 to 2025, before reaching
31.1 million by 2030 and securing approximately 32% of the
total market share for new car sales. Market research firm
Exawatt (exa-watt.com) estimates that the total market for silicon
carbide wafers for power semiconductors for electric vehicles in
2021 will be 133,000 150mm equivalent wafers and the total market
will exceed 1.23 million 150 mm equivalent wafers in 2030. These
stats highlight the tremendous opportunity Aehr Test has in front
of it with its wafer level test and burn-in solution for electric
vehicle semiconductors.”
The FOX-XP system, available with multiple WaferPak Contactors
(full wafer test) or multiple DiePakTM Carriers (singulated
die/module test) configurations, is capable of functional test and
burn-in/cycling of integrated devices such as silicon carbide (SiC)
power devices, silicon photonics as well as other optical devices,
2D and 3D sensors, flash memories, Gallium Nitride (GaN), 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 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 ABTSTM and FOX-PTM
families of test and burn-in systems and FOX WaferPakTM 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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