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Aehr Announces Over $5.5 Million in Sonoma Ultra-High-Power System Orders to Test and Burn-in AI Processors; Introduces New Fully-Automated Sonoma for Next-Generation AI Applications
FREMONT, CA / ACCESS Newswire / January 8, 2026 / Aehr Test Systems (NASDAQ:AEHR), a worldwide supplier of semiconductor test and burn-in solutions, today announced that during its fiscal third quarter to date it has received orders from multiple ...
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[{"type":"text","content":"FREMONT, CA / ACCESS Newswire / January 8, 2026 / Aehr Test Systems (NASDAQ:AEHR), a worldwide supplier of semiconductor test and burn-in solutions, today announced that during its fiscal third quarter to date it has received orders from multiple customers totaling more than $5.5 million for its Sonoma™ ultra-high-power packaged-part burn-in (PPBI) systems. These orders are from a premier global Bay Area lab and leading-edge artificial intelligence (AI) companies for multiple next-generation Sonoma systems designed to support next-generation CPUs, GPUs, and high-performance networking processors used in AI, data center, and communications applications where each device can reach up to 2000W.","length":700,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"Gayn Erickson, President and CEO of Aehr Test Systems, commented, "Orders for Sonoma systems received in the third quarter to date have already exceeded total Sonoma orders for the entire second quarter, highlighting the accelerating demand we are seeing for our package-level burn-in of high-powered AI and compute devices. These include initial orders from a premier Silicon Valley test services lab for our newly introduced next-generation fully automated Sonoma platform, expanding their installed base of Aehr systems.","length":528,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":""We are particularly excited about the introduction of the fully automated Sonoma configuration. It extends the Sonoma family while maintaining full compatibility with the large installed base of Sonoma systems at test houses and OSATs worldwide, providing customers with a seamless path from device qualification to volume production."","length":346,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"Seamless Transition from Qualification to Production","length":52,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"A key advantage of Aehr's next-generation Sonoma platform is that customers can move from engineering qualification to production burn-in without changing hardware, software, test programs, or burn-in modules. The same Sonoma system used for qualification can be paired with Aehr's Automated Loader/Unloader (ALU) to enable fully automated, high-volume production burn-in.","length":380,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":""This continuity eliminates requalification risk and reduces time to production,...