Avantest heeft nieuwe Rambus testapparatuur geïntroduceert waarmee een dubbel aantal Rambus chips in parallel getest kan worden. De kosten voor het testen van Rambus chips kunnen hierdoor aanzienlijk gereduceerd worden, wat hopelijk een positieve uitwerking heeft op de nog steeds asociaal hoge RIMM prijzen:
Introduced at Semicon-Japan in December 1999, Advantest's T5592 doubles the current number of devices that can be tested in parallel while offering the highest performance available of any memory tester. The T5592 increases throughput by testing 64 devices simultaneously, which greatly reduces the cost of testing RDRAMs. The 1.066GHz performance of the T5592 will provide headroom for testing future RDRAMs.
By the end of May 2000, Advantest will have shipped four T5592 test systems to Japan, the United States, and Europe. Advantest plans to ship 30 units during the first half of the fiscal year and continues to work toward aggressively increasing future shipments.
"The fact that Advantest, a memory tester market leader, is ramping their shipments of 64 site RDRAM testers is significant because it will help further drive down the cost of manufacturing RDRAMs," said Avo Kanadjian, Vice President Worldwide Marketing at Rambus Inc.