“This customer has a significant installed base of our FOX-XP™ wafer level test and burn-in systems that is growing as we continue to ship systems to them monthly. Each of the 18 wafer FOX-XP systems requires 18 WaferPaks that each make contact with 100% of the die on the wafers with parametric measurement and monitoring that allows us to provide 100% traceability of test coverage and results to them on every die on every wafer. This is incredibly important to them, as well as other companies that supply devices to mission critical applications such as the traction inverters used to power electric vehicle motors.
“As we have noted in the past, FOX-XP system orders are required to increase general manufacturing capacity, while our proprietary WaferPak Contactors are unique to each device design. As our customers win new designs from their customers, Aehr secures orders for new WaferPak Contactors to fulfill these new wins. Over time, we expect to see our follow-on WaferPak business grow both in absolute dollars and as a percent of our overall revenue.
“These WaferPak full wafer Contactors are also shipping in a configuration that utilizes new patented features that allow optimized alignment accuracy and alignment speed and throughput using our new fully automated FOX WaferPak Aligners that began shipping this last month. The new FOX WaferPak Aligner comes in both stand-alone and integrated configurations. In a stand-alone configuration, each FOX WaferPak Aligner can service multiple 18-wafer FOX-XPs in batch mode, while the integrated configuration of our Aligner docks directly to the front of the 18-wafer FOX-XP system and allows continuous flow of WaferPak alignment and testing in the FOX-XP without the need for any operator handling. The integrated FOX-XP and WaferPak Aligner allow the ability to support a lights-out operation with full factory automation using automated mobile robot transport or full overhead material movement of wafer transport cases (SMIF pods or FOUPs) carrying 150mm, 200mm, or 300mm wafers.”
The FOX-XP system, available with multiple WaferPak Contactors (full wafer test) or multiple DiePakTM Carriers (singulated die/module test) configurations, is capable of functional test and burn-in/cycling of integrated devices such as silicon carbide (SiC) power devices, silicon photonics as well as other optical devices, 2D and 3D sensors, flash memories, Gallium Nitride (GaN), magnetic sensors, microcontrollers, and other leading-edge ICs in either wafer form factor, before they are assembled into single or multi-die stacked packages, or in singulated die or module form factor.
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