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Investing.com -- Aehr Test Systems (NASDAQ:AEHR) stock rose 4% after the company announced it received a purchase order from a leading artificial intelligence processor supplier for a wafer level burn-in application evaluation program.
The semiconductor test equipment provider will conduct the paid evaluation at its Fremont, California facility using its FOX-XP production test and burn-in systems. The program includes a custom WaferPak high-power fine-pitch 300mm wafer contactor and production test program development to correlate with the supplier’s existing production burn-in process.
Today’s gain builds on yesterday’s advance, which followed additional follow-on orders for six Sonoma ultra-high-power packaged part burn-in systems from Aehr’s lead production AI processor customer.
Gayn Erickson, President and CEO of Aehr Test Systems , called the order "a significant step forward" in the company’s engagement with the AI processor supplier. The evaluation is expected to take approximately three to six months to complete.
The program aims to demonstrate the FOX-XP system’s ability to functionally test and deliver hundreds of amps of current to each of the supplier’s high-power processors while still in wafer form. Aehr will also showcase the system’s thermal management capabilities and precise temperature regulation across the full wafer.
Aehr highlighted that wafer-level burn-in offers advantages over traditional package-level testing by identifying failures before devices are packaged with other costly components, improving yield and reducing costs in the manufacturing process.
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