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Aehr Receives $22 Million Follow-On Order for AI Processor Wafer-Level Burn-In Systems

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Aehr Test Systems (NASDAQ:AEHR) announced a $22 million follow-on production order from its lead wafer-level AI processor customer, a supplier of advanced AI training and inference processors. The order covers multiple fully automated FOX-XP wafer-level burn-in (WLBI) systems, proprietary FOX WaferPak full-wafer contactors, and integrated FOX WaferPak Auto Aligners.

Each FOX-XP system can burn in and test up to nine 300 mm wafers simultaneously. Aehr expects to ship the systems over the next six months for installation at the customer’s high-volume manufacturing partner in Taiwan. The company highlights growing interest in WLBI for advanced AI and high-performance computing devices as package value and complexity increase.

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  • $22 million follow-on production order from lead AI processor customer
  • Order includes multiple FOX-XP systems testing nine 300 mm wafers each
  • Shipments expected over six months to high-volume manufacturing partner in Taiwan
  • Customer’s production plans contemplate capacity beyond this $22 million order
  • Growing WLBI interest across AI accelerators, CPUs, and high-performance computing devices

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Market reaction after AI processor contract award: AEHR +4.08%

+4.08% $121.96 3.8x vol
15m delay
+4.08% Vs previous close
$121.96 Last Price
$117.70 $125.98 Day Range
$3.61B Market Cap
3.8x Rel. Volume

Following this news, AEHR has gained 4.08%, reflecting a moderate positive market reaction. Our momentum scanner has triggered 2 alerts so far, indicating moderate trading interest and price volatility. The stock is currently trading at $121.96. Trading volume is very high at 3.8x the average, suggesting strong buying interest.

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Market Context

Recent insider context showed Net Selling across the analyzed period, while Aehr's active S-3ASR she...
Analysis

Recent insider context showed Net Selling across the analyzed period, while Aehr's active S-3ASR shelf had zero recorded usage. Against this order, those records add financing and governance context; delivery timing and reliance on the lead customer remain watchpoints.

Key Figures

Follow-on order: $22 million Wafer capacity: nine 300 mm wafers Expected shipment: six months +3 more
6 metrics
Follow-on order $22 million AI processor customer production order
Wafer capacity nine 300 mm wafers Each FOX-XP system tested and burned in simultaneously
Expected shipment six months Systems expected to ship after announcement
Parallel device capacity 1024 devices Per FOX DiePak Carrier
DiePak capacity nine DiePaks Maximum simultaneous capacity on FOX-NP and FOX-XP systems
Installed systems thousands of systems Installed worldwide

Previous AI Reports

5 past events · Latest: Apr 16 (Positive)
Same Type Pattern 5 events
Date Event Sentiment 24h Move Catalyst
Apr 16 AI production order Positive +10.4% Record hyperscale AI customer order expanded package-level burn-in bookings.
Apr 07 AI bookings report Positive +25.7% Quarterly bookings exceeded $37 million amid AI and data-center demand.
Mar 03 AI WLBI order Positive -5.4% Follow-on wafer-level burn-in order supported AI optical interconnect applications.
Feb 26 AI processor order Positive -4.0% $14 million order covered automated FOX-XP wafer-level burn-in systems.
Feb 11 AI production order Positive +26.2% Initial Sonoma order targeted next-generation hyperscale AI processors.

24h Move is the share-price change in the day after each event; other market factors may also have contributed.

Pattern Detected

AI-tagged history showed positive announcements with 3 aligned reactions and 2 divergent reactions.

Key Terms

wafer-level burn-in, high-bandwidth memory, early-life failures
3 terms
wafer-level burn-in technical
"increasing interest in wafer-level burn-in for advanced AI"
Wafer-level burn-in is a manufacturing stress test where semiconductor chips are powered and heated while still part of the full wafer to force early-life failures to appear before the chips are cut and packaged. For investors, it matters because performing this test improves product reliability and reduces later recalls or warranty costs, but it also raises manufacturing time and expense; think of it as shaking a batch of products to find weak ones before they reach customers.
high-bandwidth memory technical
"high-bandwidth memory (HBM), interface logic, and other die"
High-bandwidth memory is a type of computer memory designed to move large amounts of data very quickly between memory and processors, like adding many wide lanes to a highway so trucks can deliver more goods at once. For investors, it matters because products that use this memory can handle heavier workloads with lower power use, which can boost competitiveness, increase demand for certain chips, and influence manufacturers’ pricing power and profit margins.
early-life failures technical
"help identify early-life and latent reliability failures"
Failures that occur soon after a product, system, or service is first put into use, often during an initial period when defects or design issues surface. Like a new car breaking down in the first few weeks, these early-life failures can signal quality, manufacturing or design problems and affect warranty costs, customer satisfaction, recall risk and future sales, all of which investors watch as indicators of operational and financial risk.

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Lead AI processor customer expands production capacity as Aehr sees increasing interest in wafer-level burn-in for advanced AI and high-performance computing devices

FREMONT, CA / ACCESS Newswire / August 12, 2026 / Aehr Test Systems (NASDAQ:AEHR), a leading provider of test and burn-in solutions for semiconductor devices used in artificial intelligence (AI), silicon photonics, data center, automotive, and industrial applications, today announced a $22 million follow-on production order from its lead wafer-level AI processor customer. The customer is a leading provider of advanced AI training and inference processors.

The order supports the customer's continued expansion of production capacity utilizing Aehr's wafer-level burn-in (WLBI) systems and includes multiple fully automated FOX-XP WLBI systems, together with Aehr's proprietary FOX WaferPak full-wafer Contactors and integrated FOX WaferPak Auto Aligners. Each FOX-XP system is configured to test and burn in nine 300 mm wafers simultaneously. Aehr expects to ship the systems over the next six months for installation at the customer's high-volume manufacturing partner in Taiwan.

"This $22 million follow-on order represents another significant expansion of WLBI capacity by our lead AI processor customer and further validates the use of our FOX-XP platform in high-volume production," said Gayn Erickson, President and Chief Executive Officer of Aehr Test Systems. "We are encouraged that the customer's current production plans contemplate capacity beyond this order and that we continue to engage with additional semiconductor companies and hyperscalers following positive wafer-level benchmark results.

"We believe this growing interest is being driven in part by the increasing value and complexity of advanced AI semiconductor packages. As AI devices incorporate increasingly valuable processors, high-bandwidth memory (HBM), interface logic, and other die in advanced packages, screening for early-life failures before final assembly can deliver significant quality and economic benefits. We believe these trends are expanding the market opportunity for wafer-level burn-in across AI accelerators, CPUs, network processors and other high-performance computing and semiconductor memory devices."

Aehr's FOX-XP platform enables high-volume WLBI and test before semiconductor devices are singulated and packaged. Each FOX-XP system can simultaneously burn in and test up to nine 300 mm wafers and can be integrated with Aehr's FOX WaferPak Auto Aligner for automated operation in high-volume manufacturing environments.

Aehr's FOX WLBI systems and proprietary WaferPak contactors help identify early-life and latent reliability failures before devices are singulated and incorporated into advanced packages, improving the quality of die entering assembly and reducing the risk of committing high-value HBM, substrates, interposers, and other components to devices that may subsequently fail reliability screening.

The company believes increasing processor performance, power, device value, advanced packaging, and HBM integration may expand the range of AI and high-performance computing applications for which WLBI provides attractive manufacturing economics.

About Aehr Test Systems

Headquartered in Fremont, California, Aehr Test Systems is a leading provider of test solutions for testing, burning-in, and stabilizing semiconductor devices in wafer-level, singulated die, and package-level form, and has installed thousands of systems worldwide. Increasing quality, reliability, safety, and security needs of semiconductors used across multiple applications, including advanced artificial intelligence (AI) processors, silicon photonics, data and telecommunications infrastructure, electric vehicles, electric vehicle charging infrastructure, solar and wind power, computing, and solid-state memory and storage are driving additional test requirements, incremental capacity needs, and new opportunities for Aehr's products and solutions. Aehr has developed and introduced several innovative products including the FOX-PTM families of test and burn-in systems and FOX WaferPakTM Aligner, FOX WaferPak Contactor, FOX DiePak® Carrier and FOX DiePak Loader. The FOX-XP and FOX-NP systems are full-wafer contact and singulated die/module test and burn-in systems that can test, burn-in, and stabilize a wide range of devices such as leading-edge silicon carbide-based and other power semiconductors, 2D and 3D sensors used in mobile phones, tablets, and other computing devices, memory semiconductors, processors, microcontrollers, systems-on-a-chip, and photonics and integrated optical devices. The FOX-CP system is a low-cost single-wafer compact test solution for logic, memory and photonic devices and the newest addition to the FOX-P product family. The FOX WaferPak Contactor contains a unique full-wafer contactor capable of testing wafers up to 300mm that enables IC manufacturers to perform test, burn-in, and stabilization of full wafers on the FOX-P systems. The FOX DiePak Carrier allows testing, burning in, and stabilization of singulated bare die and modules up to 1024 devices in parallel per DiePak on the FOX-NP and FOX-XP systems up to nine DiePaks at a time. Acquired through its acquisition of Incal Technology, Inc., Aehr's new line of high-power package-level reliability/burn-in test solutions for AI semiconductor manufacturers, including its ultra-high-power Sonoma family of test solutions for AI accelerators, GPUs, and high-performance computing (HPC) processors, position Aehr within the rapidly growing AI market as a turnkey provider of reliability and testing that span from engineering to high volume production. For more information, please visit Aehr Test Systems' website at www.aehr.com.

Safe Harbor Statement

This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Forward-looking statements generally relate to future events or Aehr's future financial or operating performance. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements because they contain words such as "may," "will," "should," "expects," "plans," "anticipates," "going to," "could," "intends," "target," "projects," "contemplates," "believes," "estimates," "predicts," "potential," or "continue," or the negative of these words or other similar terms or expressions that concern Aehr's expectations, strategy, priorities, plans, or intentions. Forward-looking statements in this press release include, but are not limited to, future requirements and orders of Aehr's new and existing customers; Aehr's ability to receive orders and generate revenue in the future, as well as Aehr's beliefs regarding the factors impacting the foregoing, including the growth of the markets referred to herein; Aehr's ability to integrate Incal efficiently; and the timing and extent to which the acquisition is accretive. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are also subject to other risks and uncertainties, including those more fully described in Aehr's recent Form 10-K, 10-Q and other reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Aehr disclaims any obligation to update information contained in any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date of this press release.

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Contacts:

Aehr Test Systems
Vernon Rogers
EVP of Sales & Marketing
vrogers@aehr.com

PondelWilkinson, Inc.
Todd Kehrli or Jim Byers
Analyst/Investor Contact
tkehrli@pondel.com
jbyers@pondel.com

SOURCE: Aehr Test Systems



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FAQ

What did Aehr Test Systems (NASDAQ:AEHR) announce on August 12, 2026?

Aehr Test Systems announced a $22 million follow-on production order from its lead wafer-level AI processor customer. According to Aehr Test Systems, the order expands wafer-level burn-in capacity using FOX-XP systems, WaferPak contactors, and WaferPak Auto Aligners for advanced AI processor manufacturing.

What is the value and purpose of the new Aehr (AEHR) AI processor wafer-level burn-in order?

The new follow-on order is valued at $22 million and is intended to expand wafer-level burn-in capacity for a leading AI processor customer. According to Aehr Test Systems, it supports high-volume production of advanced AI training and inference processors using its FOX-XP platform.

When will Aehr (AEHR) ship the FOX-XP systems from the $22 million AI order?

Aehr Test Systems expects to ship the ordered FOX-XP systems over the next six months. According to Aehr Test Systems, the systems will be installed at the customer’s high-volume manufacturing partner in Taiwan to support expanding AI processor production capacity.

How many wafers can Aehr’s FOX-XP systems test for the new AI processor order?

Each FOX-XP system can simultaneously burn in and test up to nine 300 mm wafers. According to Aehr Test Systems, these wafer-level burn-in capabilities help screen for early-life and latent reliability failures before devices are singulated and assembled into advanced AI semiconductor packages.

Why is wafer-level burn-in important for Aehr’s AI processor customer and AEHR investors?

Wafer-level burn-in screens for early-life failures before final assembly, protecting high-value AI packages. According to Aehr Test Systems, this improves die quality and reduces the risk of wasting expensive components like high-bandwidth memory, substrates, and interposers in AI and high-performance computing devices.

Which products from Aehr (AEHR) are included in the $22 million AI wafer-level burn-in order?

The order includes multiple fully automated FOX-XP WLBI systems, FOX WaferPak full-wafer contactors, and FOX WaferPak Auto Aligners. According to Aehr Test Systems, these integrated solutions enable automated, high-volume wafer-level burn-in for advanced AI training and inference processors.

How does the new AI processor order relate to Aehr’s broader AI and HPC market strategy?

The order supports Aehr’s positioning in the growing AI and high-performance computing markets by expanding wafer-level burn-in usage. According to Aehr Test Systems, increasing processor value, advanced packaging, and HBM integration are driving broader WLBI adoption across AI accelerators, CPUs, network processors, and memory devices.