News: Suppliers
18 June 2026
Aehr receives follow-on production order from silicon photonics customer
Aehr Test Systems of Fremont, CA, USA — which provides solutions for testing, burning-in and stabilizing semiconductor devices in wafer-level, singulated die, and packaged-part form — has received a follow-on production order for a fully automated FOX-XP wafer-level burn-in (WLBI) system, for delivery within the next six months. The system is configured to test nine wafers in parallel, and includes a fully integrated WaferPak Auto Aligner, and a full set of FOX WaferPak Contactors.
The customer is a global leader in networking products and solutions and a major supplier to the data-center optical transceiver market. The customer is developing advanced silicon photonics-based transceivers for data-center networking and optical I/O applications to address the rapidly accelerating demand for high-speed fiber-optic communication links in hyperscale AI and cloud data centers. The customer has also provided Aehr with a forecast for additional systems this calendar year as it ramps capacity to support next-generation hyperscale data-center deployments.
The follow-on order for a full production FOX WLBI test cell “reflects the urgency of the production ramp now underway to support the massive buildout of hyperscale AI and cloud data centers,” says president & CEO Gayn Erickson. “This customer is a leading supplier of networking products and solutions for the data-center market, and we are pleased to support its capacity expansion plans as it prepares for next-generation hyperscale data-center deployments,” he adds.
“We first engaged with this customer only seven months ago with an objective to move quickly to volume production within six months. Aehr was able to demonstrate the production-ready capabilities of our fully integrated test cell to meet the customer’s performance and throughput requirements in a remarkably short period of time. This enabled us to deliver a full production system and two engineering systems to them by May, meeting their goal. By leveraging our FOX wafer-level systems installed base, which has now been deployed to more than 25 customers, we believe we are well positioned to help customers move efficiently from qualification to production in a very short period,” continues Erickson.
“Data-center architectures are rapidly evolving as AI infrastructure scales, driving a major transition from traditional copper interconnects to fiber-optic communication links to meet the increasing requirements for bandwidth, latency, signal integrity, thermal performance, and power efficiency. Silicon photonics-based optical transceivers are a critical enabling technology for this transformation. We believe Aehr is well positioned to participate in what could be a significant multi-year expansion of silicon photonics production driven by the growth of fiber-optic interconnects in hyperscale AI data centers,” Erickson says.
“This customer engagement further validates wafer-level burn-in as an increasingly important part of silicon photonics manufacturing flow and highlights the potential for silicon photonics to become a meaningful long-term growth driver for Aehr’s WLBI business. With our leadership in WLBI for silicon photonics and our ability to support customers for qualification through high-volume production, we believe Aehr offers the industry’s most cost-effective solution for this rapidly emerging market.”
As data-center architectures scale to support AI, cloud computing and high-performance networking, fiber-optic interconnects offer significant advantages over copper wiring, including higher data rates, lower power consumption, longer reach, improved thermal performance, and reduced electromagnetic interference. These advantages are driving rapid adoption of silicon photonics transceivers across hyperscale and enterprise data centers worldwide and increasing demand for cost-effective, production-proven burn-in solutions that can ensure device quality and long-term reliability at volume.
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