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Aehr Receives Follow-on Orders of Over $6 Million for FOX-XP™ Test and Burn-in System and WaferPaks™ for Silicon Photonics Devices
FREMONT, Calif., Nov. 11, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aehr Test Systems (NASDAQ: AEHR), a worldwide supplier of semiconductor test and reliability qualification
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[{"type":"text","content":"FREMONT, Calif., Nov. 11, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aehr Test Systems (NASDAQ: AEHR), a worldwide supplier of semiconductor test and reliability qualification equipment, today announced it has received follow-on orders of over $6 million from one of its lead FOX-XP Test and Burn-in System customers for a FOX-XP multi-wafer test and burn-in system and multiple WaferPak Contactors to provide additional high-volume test capacity for the customer’s increasing silicon photonics device production requirements. The FOX-XP system and WaferPak Contactors are expected to ship prior to the end of Aehr’s next fiscal quarter ending February 29, 2020.\n The FOX-XP system is configured with nine FOX-P™ independent testers respectively, each with their own independent test system, test interface, and conductive thermal chuck, and are able to test up to nine wafers of up to 2KW of power each for a total of 18KW per system, which enables full wafer test of all devices on the wafer in a single touchdown. Gayn Erickson, President and CEO of Aehr Test Systems, commented, “We are excited to receive this follow-on order for an additional FOX-XP system and multiple WaferPaks from this lead customer, one of the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturers. This customer continues to look to Aehr to support their high-volume production ramp in wafer-level burn-in capacity and to forecast significant growth in shipments for silicon photonics devices that we expect to drive the need for additional production test and burn-in capacity for multiple years into the future. “We continue to be very optimistic about the silicon photonics and photonics sensors markets and believe they will be significant growth drivers for Aehr. Market Research Engine projects silicon photonics for data center and high-performance computing to grow at a compounded rate of 26.8% from 2017 through 2024. The rapid growth of integrated optical devices in mobile devices, high-performance servers and data centers, automotive applications, and now wearable biosensor markets, is driving substantially higher requirements for initial quality and long-term reliability, and they are increasing with every new product generation. We believe these new applications are driving an entirely new level of quality and reliability expectation for these systems and pose a significant long-term growth oppo...