Advantest’s VOICE 2025 Draws Record Attendance in Austin, Texas

Advantest concluded a successful VOICE 2025 at the AT&T Conference Center in Austin, Texas. The event was held on May 12-14 and drew a record-high attendance of over 470 attendees, the majority of whom were Advantest customers and industry partners. 

The VOICE 2025 committee received more than 200 abstract submissions from 39 global companies across 13 countries. Of those abstracts, 89 papers were presented over two days, the majority of which were written or co-authored by Advantest customers. The track listing featured a wide range of topics important to the automatic test equipment (ATE) industry, such as 5G/millimeter wave, high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI), test methodologies, as well as a new track covering automotive, power, analog, and mixed-signal.

This year’s event featured an exciting lineup of three keynote speakers: John Yi, Fellow at AMD; Andrew Yick, senior director of product and test engineering at Marvell Technology; and Roy Meade, executive director for strategic partnerships at the Texas Institute for Electronics. 

In addition to the keynote presentations, attendees had the opportunity to engage with Advantest R&D engineers during the Technology Kiosk Showcase. The event also included “Talk with Experts” lunches, where participants could sit down with experts from Advantest and sponsoring companies to discuss a variety of topics, including silicon photonics, power consumption, thermal control, and silicon validation. Attendees enjoyed valuable networking time during evening events and scheduled breaks. Additionally, a Workshop Day was held on May 15, offering hands-on sessions that focused on advanced RF modulation and demodulation on the V93000 SoC Test System.

The VOICE Partner’s Expo took place throughout the event, enabling Advantest’s partners and sponsors to meet with attendees and exhibit their latest products and offerings. This year’s headline sponsors were Alliance ATE Consulting Group and ISE Labs/ASE Group.

Best Paper and Best Kiosk Awards

Attendees voted for the Best Paper and Best Kiosk awards using the VOICE mobile app. This year’s Best Paper awards were presented to Ritesh Mehta from NVIDIA for his paper titled “Predictive Test Selection for Silicon at System Level Using Machine Learning and Cloud Services,” and to Brian Buras, Keith Schaub, Constantinos Xanthopoulos, Yichuan Lu, and Navnath Raut from Advantest for their paper titled “Leveraging Generative AI for Domain-Specific Knowledge Retrieval and Interaction.”

Anik Mehta of Microsoft and Phil Brock of Advantest received an Honorable Mention for their paper, “Left-Shifting Functional Validation to Wafer Sort Test Methodologies.” Additionally, Michael Kozma, Juergen Sang, Alex Perlman, and Benny Wang from Advantest were given an Honorable Mention for their paper titled “Vmin to the Max: A New Approach to Single-Sequencer Run Searching Test Methodologies.” This year’s Best Kiosk award was won by Keith Schaub, Don Ong, and Nadine Schill from Advantest for their “Advantest Talks Semi” kiosk.

Visionary Award

This year’s Visionary Award was presented to Kar Leong, senior director of test engineering, Qualcomm. Recipients of the Visionary Award are honored for their significant and sustained contributions to VOICE over time. Leong has contributed papers to VOICE for the past nine years and won the award for Best Paper in 2012.

VOICE 2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us for VOICE 2025! VOICE 2026 will be held in Scottsdale, Arizona, at the Fairmount Scottsdale Princess on May 18-20. For more details, please go to: https://voice.advantest.com/.

Advantest Concludes Successful SEMICON Japan 2024 with Record Booth Attendance

Advantest displayed exceptional leadership at SEMICON Japan 2024, held on December 11-13 at the Tokyo Big Sight. As a result of Japan’s efforts to bolster its domestic semiconductor industry, this year’s event saw a record attendance of over 100,000 people compared to 85,000 attendees in 2023. Advantest’s booth received a record number of over 3,500 visitors, including customers, government officials, media personnel, and financial experts. Advantest conducted six interviews with highly respected media outlets such as DigiTimes and Sangyo Times, garnering significant media attention.

Advantest proudly celebrated its 70th anniversary in 2024, embracing this significant milestone with cherished customers and industry partners under the inspiring theme “Facing the Future Together” at SEMICON Japan.

Our application-based display showcased our solutions for applications like artificial intelligence (AI), high-performance compute (HPC), 5G, and automotive. We featured various new products, such as the PMUX02, Wave Scale RF20ex, XHC32, ACS Gemini, and HA1100 Die Prober, highlighting our expansive portfolio.

As a gold sponsor, Advantest sponsored various aspects of this year’s event, including the APCS (Advanced Packaging and Chiplet Summit), sustainability forum, AI technical forum, and many other events during the show. Additionally, Senior Director/Principal Test Strategist Shinji Fujita presented “Optimization of Test Strategies for Innovative Chiplets for HPC/AI Applications” during the SEMI Technology Symposium (STS).

Thank you to everyone who visited us and contributed to the success of SEMICON Japan 2024!

Advantest Completes Another Successful SEMICON West

SEMICON West 2024 took place at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California, on July 9-11, where Advantest once again made a strong presence. This event marks the 25th anniversary of the V93000, as it was unveiled at SEMICON West in 1999.

This year’s SEMICON West hosted 650 exhibiting companies, a 15% increase over last year and saw a 19% increase in attendance from 2023.

Advantest’s booth attracted 242 visitors—an astonishing 50% more than last year—including 12 VIP customers. The booth featured Advantest’s 70th anniversary and corporate theme videos, as well as ACS RTDI, automotive device test solutions, memory platforms, the HA12000 die-level handler, and the V93000 EXA Scale PSML and XHC32 with RDA sockets and boards. Twelve press meetings were conducted, nearly four times the number Advantest usually conducts.

Our customer hospitality event on Wednesday, July 10, proved to be a success as well, attracting almost 250 attendees, 67% of which were customers or non-Advantest guests. We celebrated Advantest’s 70th anniversary and V93000’s 25th anniversary with special cupcakes.  

Advantest had a strong presence at the TestVision Symposium as well, presenting multiple papers and posters:

• Keynote – The Rise of AI-Enhanced Test Engineering: Transforming Challenges into Opportunities by Keith Schaub
• Revolutionizing AI Chip Testing with AI-Driven Solutions by Ira Leventhal
• Chiplet Ecosystem Testability for HVM by Bob Bartlett
• Poster presentations
  • DPD (Digital Pre-Distortion) for RF Power Amplifier Test by Yichuan Lu
  • Optimizing ATE Test Cell Operation with IoT and Cloud Technologies by Vincent Chu

In addition, Ken Butler represented Advantest in the panel discussion, “A Foundation for a Data Driven Future: How to Define, Adapt, and Adopt Standards to Enable a More Intelligent Test Flow and Seamless Operations.”

Another success from the event is that Advantest’s HA1200 test handler was named one of three finalists for the “Best of West” award, a prestigious award presented by SEMI and Semiconductor Digest each year to recognize innovative new products that significantly advance electronics manufacturing capability.

SEMICON West 2025 will take place in October in Phoenix, Arizona, as the conference begins its new rotation between Phoenix and San Francisco.

Advantest Draws Record Attendance to VOICE 2024 in San Diego

Advantest concluded a successful VOICE 2024 at the Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines in San Diego, California. The event was held on June 3-5 and drew a record-high attendance of over 400 attendees, the majority of whom were Advantest customers and industry partners. This year’s VOICE event coincided with Advantest’s 70th anniversary, and the company was pleased to commemorate this milestone with longstanding customers and industry partners.

The VOICE 2024 committee received 225 abstract submissions from 40 global companies across 14 countries. Of those abstracts, 78 papers were presented over the course of the two-day event—the majority of which were written or co-authored by Advantest’s customers. The Artificial Intelligence (AI) track was added to this year’s technical program, in addition to a wide range of topics important to the automatic test equipment (ATE) industry, such as 5G/millimeter wave, high-performance computing, cloud technologies, and system-level test.

This year’s event also featured an exciting lineup of three keynote speakers, including Craig Nishizaki, vice president of the Test Solutions Group at NVIDIA, Marcelo Ackermann, professor of the XUV Optics Group at the University of Twente, and Andrea Lati, director of market research at TechInsights. In addition to keynotes, Advantest’s Kotaro Hasegawa and Michael Braun hosted a Technical Highlights session that featured Advantest’s latest solutions to address emerging test challenges for various applications including microLED and silicon photonics. Attendees also had the opportunity to engage with Advantest R&D engineers during the Technology Kiosk Showcase. Attendees were also provided valuable time to network with others during evening events and scheduled breaks. In addition, a Workshop Day was hosted after the event on Thursday, offering attendees a hands-on learning experience on advanced RF demodulation, Advantest’s new DC Scale XHC32, and SmarTest 8. 

The VOICE Partner’s Expo took place throughout the event, providing Advantest’s partners and sponsors the chance to meet with attendees and exhibit their latest products and offerings. This year’s headline sponsors were Alliance ATE Consulting Group and ISE Labs/ASE Group.

Best Paper and Best Kiosk Awards

Attendees used the VOICE mobile app to vote for the Best Paper and Best Kiosk awards. This year’s Best Paper award was awarded Bernhard Moessler from Infineon and Souvik Dey and Jubal Saji from Advantest, for their paper “Enabling Virtual Scope Capability on the V93000.” Advantest’s Brent Bullock also won Best Paper with, “Early Detection of CRES Degradation on High Current Power Planes.” Makoto Eiki of Sony was named as an Honorable Mention for his paper titled “Improving Efficiency and Robustness of Gaussian Process Based Outlier Detection via Ensemble Learning,” as was Jun Zhang, Bowen Yang, and Jiamin Wang of Advantest for their paper, “Boost the Performance of the Test Program Development Through Burst and Concurrency on SmarTest 8.” Keith Schaub and Nadine Schill from Advantest won this year’s Best Kiosk award for their “Advantest Talks Semi” kiosk. 

Visionary Award

This year’s Visionary Award was presented to Matt Silverstein, senior manager, audio product & test engineering, Analog Devices. Recipients of the Visionary Award are honored for their significant and sustained contributions to VOICE over time. Silverstein has supported VOICE by serving on the technical committee for twelve years and contributing papers to the technical program for the past three years. 

VOICE 2025

VOICE 2025 will be held in Austin, Texas at the AT&T Hotel and Conference Center on May 12-14. For more details, please go to: https://voice.advantest.com/. 

Advantest Concludes Successful SEMICON Japan 2023 with Record Attendance

Advantest displayed its latest products and solutions at SEMICON Japan 2023, held on December 13-15 at the Tokyo Big Sight. As a result of Japan’s efforts to bolster its domestic semiconductor industry, this year’s event saw a significant increase in attendance from 50,000 people last year to 85,000 people this year. Advantest’s booth saw a 50% increase in booth attendance compared to last year, with a steady flow of visitors including customers, government officials, media personnel, and financial experts. 

Unlike previous years, Advantest’s 2023 booth featured an application-centric display, highlighting major applications like High-Performance Computing (HPC), Automotive, and 5G. Our new application-based approach helped us to connect with visitors from diverse backgrounds and showcase the crucial role our test technology plays in developing the world’s most cutting-edge applications. Our display included new products, such as the HA1200, ATC 2.0, Pin Scale Multilevel Serial, and the T5230 memory test system, demonstrating how our extensive product portfolio enables global innovation.

As a gold sponsor, Advantest sponsored various aspects of this year’s event including the APCS (Advanced Packaging and Chiplet Summit), Smart Mobility pavilion, and SuperTHEATER where President Yoshida-san gave a compelling speech on how Advantest is enabling the future with semiconductor testing. Additionally, Senior Director, Test Strategist of SVC Marketing & Business Development Shinji Fujita presented, “Challenges in Testing Advanced Large-Scale SoC Devices” during the SEMI Technology Symposium (STS). 

Thank you to everyone who contributed to the success of SEMICON Japan 2023! We look forward to next year’s event.

Smartphone and OTA sockets were displayed in IoT/5G corner, as well as QR & robotic arm demo

HA1200 in AI/HPC corner

Advantest Concludes Successful SEMICON West 2023 with Exceptional Booth Attendance

Advantest participated in SEMICON West 2023 on July 11-13 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California, which had a vast increase in overall attendance. There was a significant increase in foot traffic at Advantest’s booth as well, doubling the visitor count of last year. Advantest employees hosted many key customers and media outlets at the booth, showcasing our latest leading-edge test solutions.

Under the theme of “Beyond the Technology Horizon,” this year’s product showcase included our V93000 EXA Scale XPS module, inteXcell, ACS, T2000, and memory test platforms, highlighting our broad portfolio. We also promoted our ongoing corporate ESG initiatives. An AR/VR demo of the inteXcell and AI-generated portrait drawings from the ACS team, utilizing state-of-the-art technology, attracted crowds of interested parties who were eager to learn more about Advantest’s products. 

In addition to the product showcase, Advantest employees gave six presentations at the 2023 Test Vision Symposium. Advantest sponsored the 2023 Workforce Development (WFD) and High-Tech U (HTU) programs, offering industry insight to young professionals and students looking to learn more about semiconductor technology and career opportunities in the industry.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to the success of SEMICON West 2023, and we look forward to next year.

Advantest’s booth at SEMICON West 2023.