Customers Consistently Indicate High Levels of Satisfaction with Advantest's Semiconductor Test Solutions SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Advantest Corporation (TSE:6857TSE:NYSE:TSE:ATE), the world's leading supplier of semiconductor test equipment, announced that worldwide customers of its test and material handling systems have ranked it among the industry's overall 10 BEST chip making equipment suppliers in the annual customer satisfaction survey conducted by VLSI Research Inc. Advantest is among the top three large suppliers of semiconductor manufacturing equipment, and the highest ranking automatic test equipment (ATE) company on the list. Rankings are based on direct customer feedback representing 95 percent of the world's chip producers; the survey is the only publicly available opportunity for them to rate their suppliers. The survey's thirteen categories range from cost of ownership to quality of results to field engineering support. Advantest earned its highest ratings in the category of "Usable Throughput." Advantest was also recently named to the lists of the world's 10 BEST suppliers for test equipment and material handling equipment (see release dated June 18, 2007) and in November 2006 earned inclusion on VLSI Research's Five Star list of the most highly rated chip making equipment suppliers in customer satisfaction. Long the world's established market leader in Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) for semiconductors and a leader in test and measurement equipment for more than 50 years, Advantest is further distinguished for its ability to sustain product excellence and customer service on a global basis, as indicated by 19 years of positive customer responses in VLSI Research's annual 10 BEST surveys. R. Keith Lee, president and CEO of Advantest America, says, "Advantest sets high standards for its products, people, and test leadership; collaboration, internally and externally, is a core value. So it is wonderful to see our commitment reflected in the rankings our customers give us. Thanks to our customers - their willingness to partner with us in research and innovation, their appreciation of our products and test knowledge, and their striving for maintaining high standards of quality - Advantest has become not only the ATE industry leader around the world, but also a 10 BEST company for almost two decades." "Advantest has a truly global perspective and a keen business perspective as well as fine engineering," says G. Dan Hutcheson, CEO of VLSI Research. "The company's financial stability has enabled it to invest in both its people and R&D, creating a winning combination of a well-run company with a desire to be the best in ATE. The excellent execution of this vision has led Advantest to the high customer ratings that consistently keep it in our 10 BEST rankings." About Advantest Advantest Corporation is the world's leading 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, Web site: http://www.advantest.com/

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