Advantest Marks 25th Anniversary of U.S. Company
2007年10月20日 - 1:38AM
PRニュース・ワイアー (英語)
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Advantest
Corporation (TSE:6857TSE:NYSE:TSE:ATE), the global leader in
semiconductor test equipment, is celebrating the 25th anniversary
of the founding of its U.S. subsidiary, Advantest America, Inc.
Founded in the fall of 1982 in Buffalo Grove, Illinois, Advantest
America was the first subsidiary of the 53-year-old Tokyo-based
company, which now has 43 subsidiaries worldwide. Headquartered in
Santa Clara, California since 1998, Advantest America has played a
critical role in the company's attaining ATE market and technology
leadership. Advantest Corporation's visionary global strategy,
unsurpassed investments in R&D, and dedication to outstanding
engineering combined with its presence in the U.S. -- starting
point to many of the world's major high-technology innovations in
business and consumer products -- have contributed to Advantest's
No. 1 ATE market ranking as well as to its excellent customer track
record. For 19 consecutive years, Advantest has been ranked among
VLSI Research Inc.'s 10 BEST for customer satisfaction. Advantest
America has become an important contributor to the company's
worldwide R&D efforts. Advantest America is home to two R&D
centers. The latest R&D group, founded three years ago and
numbering more than 40 engineers and technology experts, is
dedicated to creating test solutions for the logic/SoC segment of
the semiconductor market, which is largely in the U.S. Advantest
America has also been a leader in industry collaboration and
problem-solving as the local presence of Advantest in the
Semiconductor Test Consortium (STC), of which Advantest Corporation
is a founding charter member. The STC is the first international,
industry-wide collaboration aimed at developing a scalable,
flexible test platform -- the OPENSTAR(R) open- architecture
standard -- with specifications that are publicly available to the
industry. As a global company with a commitment to the North
American market and world-class standards among financial markets,
in 2001 Advantest listed on the New York Stock Exchange. To
celebrate the 25th anniversary of Advantest America, the company is
holding a special customer event and has also made a substantial
donation to Rebuilding Together Silicon Valley, a home-renovation
program for low-income Silicon Valley residents. About Advantest
Advantest Corporation is the global leader in 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, ; or Barbara Palmer of Palmer
Communications, +1-914-725-8057, , for Advantest Corporation Web
site: http://www.advantest.com/
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