{"id":550593,"date":"2026-01-29T02:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T02:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/550593\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T02:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T02:58:10","slug":"advantest-shares-jump-as-much-as-14-as-ai-chip-boom-drives-record-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/550593\/","title":{"rendered":"Advantest shares jump as much as 14% as AI chip boom drives record sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Employees move semiconductor testers on the assembly line of the Advantest Corp. plant in Ora, Japan on Aug. 10, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Tomohiro Ohsumi | Bloomberg | Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Shares of Japanese semiconductor equipment maker\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/6857.T-JP\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Advantest<\/a> jumped as much as 14% Thursday after the company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advantest.com\/document\/en\/investors\/ir-library\/result\/JE_BIZ_260128_note.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">posted record quarterly sales<\/a>, before paring gains to about 7%.<\/p>\n<p>Operating profit for the October-December quarter surged 64% year on year to 113.6 billion yen ($741.8 million). The company also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advantest.com\/en\/news\/2026\/l6fg4p0000000dwa-att\/E_FR_FY2025_3Q.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">raised its operating profit forecast<\/a> for the year ending March 2026 by 21.4% to 454 billion yen on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Growth was driven primarily by its Test System Business, where sales surged 51.1% to 723.1 billion yen as demand surged for system-on-a-chip testers used in high-performance and AI semiconductors.<\/p>\n<p>Stock Chart IconStock chart icon<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static-redesign.cnbcfm.com\/dist\/a54b41835a8b60db28c2.svg\" class=\"Collapsible-dismissButton\" alt=\"hide content\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Advantest also cited continued strength in memory testers for high-performance dynamic random-access memory.<\/p>\n<p>Its core business is semiconductor test systems, which verify that chips function properly and meet performance and durability standards before they are shipped.<\/p>\n<p>As chips used in artificial intelligence and high-performance computing become more complex, demand has grown for more advanced testing equipment to ensure quality and reliability.<\/p>\n<p>While Advantest&#8217;s management said it does not currently expect tariffs to have a major impact, it flagged ongoing risks from geopolitical uncertainty and currency volatility, even as it sees strong tester demand to persist into the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Employees move semiconductor testers on the assembly line of the Advantest Corp. plant in Ora, Japan on Aug.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":550594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[21],"tags":[77073,691,738,11732,81,158,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-550593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-advantest-corp","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-breaking-news-technology","tag-business-news","tag-technology","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115976149629833582","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}