Aehr Receives Over $4 Million in Orders for its FOX

FREMONT, Calif., Nov. 04, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Aehr Test Systems (NASDAQ: AEHR), a worldwide provider of semiconductor take a look at and reliability qualification tools, right this moment introduced it has obtained $4.4 million in orders from its lead silicon carbide take a look at and burn-in buyer for a number of WaferPak™ full wafer Contactors to satisfy their elevated manufacturing capability wants for silicon carbide energy semiconductors for the electrical car market. These WaferPak Contactors are anticipated to ship by the top of Aehr’s fiscal third quarter ending February 28, 2023.

Gayn Erickson, President and CEO of Aehr Test Systems, commented, “We are excited to receive these follow-on orders for a significant number of WaferPaks to be used with previously shipped FOX-XP systems for high volume production of MOSFETS used in electric vehicle inverters and onboard chargers. This customer is a leading Fortune 500 supplier of semiconductor devices with a significant customer base in the automotive semiconductor market, and has publicly announced that they expect their growth rate to accelerate faster than previously forecasted. We are excited to participate in their ramp and meet their quality, reliability and capacity needs, and they continue to forecast orders for a significant number of FOX systems and WaferPak Contactors during this fiscal year and well into the future.

“Customers may initially purchase a small number of WaferPaks to be used in the characterization and qualification of devices with their customers, and then upon successful qualification and design wins, follow with orders like this for a significant number of WaferPaks to be used with the FOX-XP multi-wafer systems they have installed as they move into volume production.

“We continue to be very optimistic about our business. The FOX-XP system is critical for wafer level burn-in of silicon carbide devices to meet the quality and reliability needs of the automotive industry, and from our conversations with most all of the potential silicon carbide customers worldwide, it is very clear that there is a plan to move to wafer level burn-in for their devices. This is particularly true for the automotive space, where traction inverters are shifting to multi-chip modules that provide higher performance in terms of efficiency, cooling and system integration.”

The FOX-XP system, obtainable with a number of WaferPak Contactors (full wafer take a look at) or a number of DiePak^TM Carriers (singulated die/module take a look at) configurations, is able to useful take a look at and burn-in/biking of built-in gadgets equivalent to silicon carbide energy gadgets, silicon photonics in addition to different optical gadgets, 2D and 3D sensors, flash recollections, Gallium Nitride (GaN), magnetic sensors, microcontrollers, and different modern ICs in both wafer type issue, earlier than they’re assembled into single or multi-die stacked packages, or in singulated die or module type issue.

About Aehr Test Systems
Headquartered in Fremont, California, Aehr Test Systems is a worldwide supplier of take a look at techniques for burning-in and testing logic, optical and reminiscence built-in circuits and has put in over 2,500 techniques worldwide. Increased high quality and reliability wants of the Automotive and Mobility built-in circuit markets are driving extra take a look at necessities, incremental capability wants, and new alternatives for Aehr Test merchandise in package deal, wafer degree, and singulated die/module degree take a look at. Aehr Test has developed and launched a number of revolutionary merchandise, together with the ABTS^TM and FOX-P^TM households of take a look at and burn-in techniques and FOX WaferPak^TM Aligner, FOX-XP WaferPak Contactor, FOX DiePak^® Carrier and FOX DiePak Loader. The ABTS system is used in manufacturing and qualification testing of packaged elements for each decrease energy and better energy logic gadgets in addition to all frequent forms of reminiscence gadgets. The FOX-XP and FOX-NP techniques are full wafer contact and singulated die/module take a look at and burn-in techniques used for burn-in and useful take a look at of advanced gadgets, equivalent to modern silicon carbide-based energy semiconductors, recollections, digital sign processors, microprocessors, microcontrollers, systems-on-a-chip, and built-in optical gadgets. The FOX-CP system is a brand new low-cost single-wafer compact take a look at and reliability verification answer for logic, reminiscence and photonic gadgets and the most recent addition to the FOX-P product household. The WaferPak contactor accommodates a novel full wafer probe card able to testing wafers as much as 300mm that permits IC producers to carry out take a look at and burn-in of full wafers on Aehr Test FOX techniques. The DiePak Carrier is a reusable, momentary package deal that permits IC producers to carry out cost-effective ultimate take a look at and burn-in of each naked die and modules. For extra info, please go to Aehr Test Systems’ web site at www.aehr.com.

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