Media Alert: Advantest Will Be Exhibitor, Paper Presenter and Gold Sponsor at SEMICON Japan Trade Show, December 16-18 in Tokyo

TOKYO, JAPAN--(Marketwired - Dec 14, 2015) - Leading semiconductor test equipment supplier Advantest Corporation (TSE: 6857) (NYSE: ATE) will have a prominent presence at the SEMICON Japan trade show, coming December 16-18 to the Tokyo Big Sight international exhibition center. In addition to showcasing the industry's widest spectrum of automatic test equipment (ATE) and presenting a technical paper, Advantest is a gold sponsor of this year's event, which includes sponsoring the President's Reception on December 16 and three days of executive presentations in the SuperTHEATER such as the show-opening keynote address, the first day's semiconductor executive forum and the forward-looking Life & Smart Car forum.

Advantest's booth #2545 in the East Hall will feature the Japanese market debuts of several innovative, new products. These include the EVA100 Production Model and a digital solution for volume-production, the T5833 memory tester for NAND, NVMs and DRAM, the T5851 system level tester for Universal Flash Storage (UFS) and PCIe BGA Solid State Drives (BGA-SSD), the TS9000 TDR (Time Domain Reflectometry) for IC fault isolation and analysis, a highly parallel performance board and a power multiplexer (mux) module for the V93000 test platform, a massive parallel board solution for testing analog and automotive devices on the T2000 platform and a novel DUT fixture for the T2000 28G OPM module.

Other productivity enhancements for established Advantest systems also will be on display in the booth including a design-evaluation board for the V93000 platform, a probe card for the T6391 LCD driver test system and the CX50 station for Advantest's unique, on-demand CloudTesting™ Service.

Providing insights into the latest IC test technology, Shin Kimura, vice president of Advantest's ASD Test and Measurement Business Group, will present a paper on "Mass Production Measurement Technology Required for Sensors" at TechSTAGE North on December 16 at 3:10 p.m.

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About Advantest Corporation
A world-class technology company, Advantest is a leading producer of automatic test equipment (ATE) for the semiconductor industry and a premier manufacturer of measuring instruments used in the design and production of electronic instruments and systems. Its leading-edge systems and products are integrated into the most advanced semiconductor production lines in the world. The company also focuses on R&D for emerging markets that benefit from advancements in nanotech and terahertz technologies, and has introduced multi-vision metrology scanning electron microscopes essential to photomask manufacturing as well as groundbreaking 3D imaging and analysis tools. Founded in Tokyo in 1954, Advantest established its first subsidiary in 1982, in the USA, and now has subsidiaries worldwide. More information is available at www.advantest.com.