Aehr Receives Initial Order From New Customer for FOX-NP Solution for Production Test and Burn-in of Silicon Photonics Devices - Seite 2

“In addition to the FOX-NP system, which is capable of testing 100% of the devices on each of two silicon photonics wafers in parallel, we have also provided this customer with proposals for, and they have told us they plan to purchase, our high volume production FOX-XP system that is capable of testing up to 18 wafers in parallel to meet their production needs. The FOX-XP is 100% compatible with our dual-wafer FOX-NP and proprietary WaferPaks, which allows our customer to make a very simple transition between initial qualification and low volume production to high volume production.

“We view this large player in the silicon photonics market as a very important customer win for Aehr, and we are also encouraged to be working with one of the world’s leading semiconductor assembly and test subcontract manufacturers that we believe will broaden our customer base as they market our FOX Wafer Level Test & Burn in Systems to their installed base of customers.

“Market research company Yole Développement predicts silicon photonics technology will grow from approximately 3.5 million silicon photonic transceivers shipments in 2019 to 24 million units shipped in 2025, or a CAGR of more than 37%, with a resulting market value for transceivers expected to be worth almost $4 billion. We believe that the Silicon Photonics market will continue to be a high growth opportunity for Aehr Test Systems for many years.

“As a global supplier to Critical Infrastructure companies as defined by the US government, we are taking extraordinary measures to be able to safely operate up to nearly full capacity in manufacturing and across the company so that we can support the vital needs of these Critical Infrastructure customers while fully complying with the local and state mandated ‘Shelter in Place’ directives. Through direct and indirect representatives, Aehr also has engineers and infrastructure around the world to support our customers and meet our contracts, response times, and critical parts lead times for our installed base of Aehr Test systems, WaferPaks, DiePaks, and accessories.”

Aehr’s FOX-NP is an entry level, production proven full-wafer test solution that allows companies to do initial production qualification and ship thousands of devices per day, and is fully compatible with the high-volume FOX-XP system, enabling an easier transition to full production test. Aehr’s FOX-XP system is the Company’s multi-wafer and singulated die/module test solution that is designed for high volume production and can be configured to test and burn-in up to 18 wafers of up to 1000 Watts of power per wafer using its WaferPak contactors and up to 9 wafers of up to 2000 Watts of power per wafer using its WaferPak contactors and DiePak carriers enabling massive parallel test and burn-in of up to tens of thousands of devices at a time.