Advantest
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(TYO: [6857], NYSE: [ATE] ) is a large Japanese supplier of automatic test equipment. They dominate the market for the testing of DRAM chips and are gaining market share in the system-on-a-chip (SOC) market. Based in Tokyo, the company had a gross turnover of 239 billion Yen in 2004 and is listed on the Tokyo and New York Stock Exchanges.
Competition
Advantest's principal competitors in the ATE business are:
- Teradyne
- Agilent Technologies (formerly a division of Hewlett-Packard)
- Credence Systems Corporation (including its NPTest acquisition which was formerly Schlumberger Limited, formerly Fairchild Semiconductor)
- LTX
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