Advantest Again Ranks as an Overall 10 BEST Large Supplier of Chip Making Equipment in VLSI Research Survey
2007年6月26日 - 4:28AM
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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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