Aehr Test Systems to acquire Incal Technology
30 July 2024 – Aehr Test Systems, a worldwide supplier of semiconductor test and burn-in equipment, announced it entered into a stock purchase agreement to acquire all of the outstanding capital stock of Incal Technology, Inc., a Fremont, California-based, privately held manufacturer of packaged part reliability/burn-in test solutions used by a significant number of leading Artificial Intelligence (AI) semiconductor manufacturers.
The acquisition expands Aehr’s product portfolio to include Incal’s highly acclaimed test solutions, particularly its ultra-high-power capabilities for AI accelerators, GPUs, and high-performance computing (HPC) processors. AI semiconductors are among the highest power consumption devices in the entire semiconductor industry, with power levels of recent devices reaching 1,000 watts or more, well beyond any existing devices. These previously unseen power levels require new, unique test solutions that Aehr will now provide.
Incals’ high-power capabilities, combined with Aehr’s industry-leading lineup of wafer level test and reliability solutions, uniquely positions Aehr to capitalize on this rapidly growing opportunity within the AI semiconductor market as a turn-key provider of reliability and testing that span from engineering to high volume production.
Gayn Erickson, President and CEO of Aehr Test Systems, commented, “The rapidly growing artificial intelligence semiconductor market is still in the early stages, and we see a significant opportunity in this market for wafer level burn-in using our new high-power FOX multi-wafer production system. In addition, given the unique challenges of testing very high-power devices related to AI processors, there is a very real need for a significant amount of engineering qualification and process development as well as a significant new opportunity for production reliability screening at the packaged part level.
“We believe that Incal’s new family of ultra-high-power solutions have significant technological and commercial advantages over other solutions, enabling Aehr to capture an even larger share of the AI semiconductor test market. In addition, Incal is in a unique position with intimate knowledge and working relationships with a significant number of AI industry leaders, providing a front-row seat to the technology needs of these customers. Incal is shipping systems today for use by a broad range of companies and their subcontract manufacturing and test houses for reliability testing for AI, GPU, network, and HPC processors, with many of these companies projecting needs to move to high volume, production level burn-in of these devices.
“Both Aehr and Incal believe there is a tremendous opportunity to grow this business substantially. Incal has world-class system hardware and software architecture and customers that have a high degree of customer loyalty for their products. Aehr brings worldwide sales and support infrastructure as well as high volume manufacturing that together we feel will quickly address customer demand of very high global growth rate of AI and other high-power semiconductors. We also bring R&D resources, technology and processes, and the financial resources to be able to enhance and accelerate new needs that customers may ask for. This unique combination strongly positions Aehr to capitalize on the significant opportunity within the AI semiconductor market.”
Alberto Salamone, President and CEO at Incal, stated, “We believe Aehr’s manufacturing capabilities and capacity together with their global applications and support resources can immediately benefit Incal’s customers and help them accelerate their adoption of our systems and meet their quality/reliability and production burn-in capacity needs. We are thrilled to join the Aehr Test family and combine our unique technology to capitalize on the incredible growth in AI processors and semiconductors worldwide.”
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