5/31/00 - ADVANTEST CORP - Commences Shipment of Cost Effective,
1.066GHz Rambus DRAM - Test Systems
New York, New York, May. 31, 2000 (Market News Publishing via COMTEX) -- Starting this month, Advantest
Corporation will begin shipping its T5592 memory test system designed for lowering the test costs of high-speed
Rambus(R) DRAMs. RDRAMs provide superior bandwidth and are regarded as the new main memory for desktop
PCs, workstations and consumer applications.
(Photo: newscom.com ) Introduced at Semicon-Japan in December 1999,
Advantest's T5592 doubles the current number of devices that can be tested in parallel while offering the highest
performance available of any memory tester. The T5592 increases throughput by testing 64 devices simultaneously,
which greatly reduces the cost of testing RDRAMs. The 1.066GHz performance of the T5592 will provide headroom
for testing future RDRAMs.
By the end of May 2000, Advantest will have shipped four T5592 test systems to Japan, the United States, and
Europe. Advantest plans to ship 30 units during the first half of the fiscal year and continues to work toward
aggressively increasing future shipments.
"The fact that Advantest, a memory tester market leader, is ramping their shipments of 64 site RDRAM testers is
significant because it will help further drive down the cost of manufacturing RDRAMs," said Avo Kanadjian, Vice
President Worldwide Marketing at Rambus Inc.
Rambus RDRAMs gained attention for being the memory of choice for Intel's 820 and 840 chipsets. Intel's next
generation processor, code named Willamette, will run at speeds greater than 1GHz and also support Rambus
memory. Advantest is ready to provide future RDRAM test capacity as the need for system memory bandwidth
increases.
About Advantest Advantest Corporation is the world's leading automatic test equipment supplier to the semiconductor
industry, and is also one of the worlds leading producers of electronic and optoelectronic instruments and systems.
A global company, Advantest has long offered total ATE solutions and leads the industry in every component of
semiconductor test: tester, handler, mechanical and electrical interfaces, and software. Their testers for logic,
memory, mixed-signal, and RF chips, as well as their 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. Advantest America, Inc.; Advantest America R&D Center, Inc.; and the newly established
Advantest Test Engineering Corporation are based in Santa Clara, California.
Rambus and RDRAM are registered trademarks of Rambus Inc. (Nasdaq: RMBS)
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