Advantest America is the North American subsidiary of Advantest Corporation, the world’s largest provider of automatic test equipment (ATE) to the semiconductor industry. ATE is used during semiconductor manufacturing to verify that a chip functions to specification, ensuring it works in the end-use application – be it consumer electronics, telecommunications, medical instrumentation or computers and digital TVs, to name a few. Advantest has for over five decades led the way in developing new and innovative test and handling solutions for the global electronics industry