Advantest
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Advantest Corporation (株式会社アドバンテスト Kabushiki-gaisha Adobantesuto?) (TYO: 6857 , NYSE: ATE) is a large Japanese supplier of automatic test equipment. They dominate the market for the testing of DRAM chips and are gaining market share in the system-on-a-chip (SOC) market. Based in Tokyo, the company had a gross turnover of 239 billion Yen in 2004 and is listed on the Tokyo and New York Stock Exchanges.
[edit] Competition
Advantest's principal competitors in the ATE business are:
- Credence Systems Corporation (including its NPTest acquisition which was formerly Schlumberger Limited, formerly Fairchild Semiconductor)
- LTX
- Teradyne
- Verigy (formerly a division of Hewlett-Packard and then of spin-off Agilent Technologies)
[edit] External links
- (English) Advantest Corporation
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