Aehr Test Systems announces follow on order from silicon carbide chip client

Aehr Test Systems announced it has received a follow-on production order from its second major silicon carbide semiconductor customer for an additional production FOX-XPTM multi-wafer test and burn-in system configured with Aehr‘s fully integrated and automated WaferPak Aligner.The FOX-XP system is configured with Bipolar Voltage Channel Module BVCM and Very High Voltage Channel Module VHVCM options that enable new advanced test and burn-in capabilities for silicon carbide power semiconductors using Aehr’s proprietary WaferPak full wafer Contactors. This customer serves several significant markets including the electric vehicle industry as well as other industrial applications. The FOX-XP system with integrated WaferPak Aligner is expected to ship in Aehr’s fiscal fourth quarter that begins March 1. Gayn Erickson, President and CEO of Aehr Test Systems, commented, "We are very excited to receive this follow-on production order from our new major silicon carbide semiconductor customer for another FOX-XP multi-wafer test and burn-in system configured with our new fully automated and integrated WaferPak alignment and material handling system. They have told us, and we believe they will order, a significant number of FOX-XP systems for volume production of their silicon carbide devices at facilities around the world to meet the exploding forecasted market demand for silicon carbide devices for electric vehicles and other industrial markets.