- CEO
- Douglas Lefever
- Full Time Employees
- 6,766
- Sector
- Technology
- Industry
- Semiconductors
- Address
- Shin Marunouchi Center Building Tokyo Japan 100-0005
- IPO Date
- Feb 13, 2009
- Business
- Advantest Corporation (TSE: 6857) manufactures and sells automatic test equipment, mechatronic products, and services for the semiconductor industry, including system-on-chip test systems, memory test systems, test handlers, device interfaces, scanning electron microscopes for photomask manufacturing, SSD test systems, SEM metrology and review systems, system-level test solutions, and test-related accessories such as probe cards and cloud-based testing products. The company operates through three main segments: semiconductor and component test systems; mechatronics including handlers; and services and support, serving applications in 5G communications, Internet of Things, autonomous vehicles, high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. Founded in 1954 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, Advantest maintains global operations across 18 countries with subsidiaries in North America, Europe, and Asia, including major facilities in the United States, Germany, Taiwan, and China; it employs approximately 7,605 people worldwide. In January 2025, Advantest formed strategic partnerships and made small minority investments in probe card manufacturers Technoprobe SpA, acquiring a 2.5% stake, and FormFactor Inc., to collaborate on technology development and printed circuit board manufacturing for advanced wafer-level testing, particularly for high-performance computing semiconductors; the company continues to evaluate further investments in semiconductor supply chain partners. Recent strategic acquisitions supporting its expansion include Astronics' system-level test business in 2019, Essai in 2020, R&D Altanova in 2021, CREA for power semiconductor testing in 2022, and Shin Puu Technology in 2023.