Advantest

Advantest was founded in Japan in 1954 as Takeda Riken Industry Co., Ltd., and was a maker of electronic measuring instruments. The company entered the semiconductor testing business in 1972, began trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 1983 and changed its name to Advantest Corporation in 1985.{{citation|title=none|journal=Business Tokyo|volume=1|issue=1|page=34|year=1987|location=Tokyo|publisher=Keizaikai Co.|issn=0914-0026|oclc=15641679}} The company’s stock began trading on the New York Stock Exchange in 2001.{{Cite web|date=17 September 2001|title=Advantest begins trading on NYSE, but sales to fall 53% in fiscal 2002|url=https://www.edn.com/advantest-begins-trading-on-nyse-but-sales-to-fall-53-in-fiscal-2002/|access-date=24 November 2020|website=EDN}}

Expanding its semiconductor test business, Advantest established its North American subsidiary, Advantest America, in 1982, and its European operations in Munich in 1983, to locate its sales and service operations closer to its North American and European customers. The company also has subsidiaries throughout Asia and operates in 18 countries. With the integration with Verigy completed,{{Cite web|title=Verigy acquired by Advantest for $1.1B|url=https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2011/07/05/verigy-acquired-advantest-11b.html|access-date=2020-09-22|website=www.bizjournals.com}} the company currently has approximately 6,464 employees worldwide.

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In 2002, Advantest was one of the founding member companies that established the Semiconductor Test Consortium (STC)—the first international, industry-wide collaboration aimed at developing a highly scalable, flexible test platform to reduce the cost of test of SoCs and other advanced ICs that incorporate complex technologies such as copper interconnects, sub-100 nm device geometries and 300mm wafers.{{Cite web|title=Advantest expands own efforts to drive ATE standards|url=https://www.eetimes.com/advantest-expands-own-efforts-to-drive-ate-standards/|access-date=22 September 2020|website=eetimes.com|date=8 October 2002 }}

Advantest joined the eBeam Initiative, a consortium formed to promote adoption of eBeam technologies, as a founding member in 2009.

Astronics Corporation sold their semiconductor test business to Advantest in 2018 for $185 million.{{Cite web |title=Astronics sells semiconductor test business for $185 million |author=Matt Glynn |work=buffalonews.com |date=15 November 2018 |access-date=7 July 2020 |url= https://buffalonews.com/business/local/astronics-sells-semiconductor-test-business-for-185-million/article_cd4991ce-6eec-56b7-a32f-cbb21fde1948.html}}

Advantest completed its acquisition of U.S.-based, final-test and system-level test equipment supplier Essai, Inc in January 2020.{{cite web |url=https://www.advantest.com/news/2020/20200129.html |title=Advantest Completes Acquisition of Essai, Inc. |date=January 29, 2020 |website=Advantest}}

Advantest acquired R&D Altanova, Inc., a U.S.-based supplier of semiconductor test equipment in October 2021.{{cite web |title=About R&D Altanova |url=https://www.cbinsights.com/company/rd-altanova |access-date=2023-05-09 |website=CB Insights}}

In June 2022, Advantest acquired Italy-based CREA - Collaudi Elettronici Automatizzati S.r.l. (CREA), a major supplier of power semiconductor test equipment.{{cite web |title=Advantest acquires test equipment supplier CREA |url=https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/advantest-acquires-test-equipment-supplier-crea-11407960 |access-date=2023-05-09 |website=Business Insider|date=June 2022 }}

In June 2024, Advantest acquired Netherlands-based Salland Engineering B.V., a major semiconductor test technology center.{{cite web |title=Advantest acquires Salland Engineering|url=https://www.salland.com/news/advantest-acquires-salland-engineering-and-applicos/ |access-date=2024-07-01 |website=Salland Enginnering|date=June 2024 }}

Advantest has three reportable segments of business: semiconductor and component test systems; mechatronics (handlers); and services, support.

Advantest offers SoC test systems, memory test systems, test handlers, device interfaces, SEM metrology and review, and SSD test systems.{{cite web |title=Advantest Corp |url=https://www.reuters.com/markets/companies/6857.T/ |access-date=2023-05-09 |website=Reuters}}

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• [http://www.advantest.com Advantest]
• {{in lang|ja}} [http://www.advantest.co.jp Advantest Japan]
• {{cite web|url=http://www.nccjapan.net/shashiwiki/index.php?title=Adobantesuto|title=Company history books (Shashi)|publisher=Shashi Interest Group|date=April 2016}} Wiki collection of bibliographic works on Advantest

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