Advantest Corporation

Advantest Corporation is a Japanese technology company that develops automatic test equipment used in the semiconductor chip production process. Its shares trade on the Tokyo Stock Exchange under the code 6857.

After a chip leaves the fab and before it is shipped to the customer, it needs to be tested to confirm that it works correctly electrically; Advantest makes the test systems used at this stage. At the center of its product range are SoC test systems that test logic chips such as graphics processors, AI accelerators and smartphone processors, along with DRAM and NAND memory test systems. Added to these are test handlers that move chips to the tester, device interfaces and service and support. Its customers are chip designers, foundries, memory makers and outsourced firms providing test and packaging services.

Investors following Advantest track test demand for AI chips, the semiconductor investment cycle, dependence on a few large customers, export restrictions targeting China and the yen exchange rate. The Advantest page on Lzzo.com shows the price of the Tokyo-listed shares on a US dollar basis; it can optionally be converted into Turkish lira, euros or pounds sterling. A historical chart, technical indicators, the source of the data and last update information are also on the page.