{"id":269417,"date":"2026-01-29T03:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/269417\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T03:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:02:08","slug":"advantest-shares-jump-as-much-as-14-as-ai-chip-boom-drives-record-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/269417\/","title":{"rendered":"Advantest shares jump as much as 14% as AI chip boom drives record sales"},"content":{"rendered":"

Employees move semiconductor testers on the assembly line of the Advantest Corp. plant in Ora, Japan on Aug. 10, 2012.<\/p>\n

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Shares of Japanese semiconductor equipment maker\u00a0Advantest<\/a> jumped as much as 14% Thursday after the company posted record quarterly sales<\/a>, before paring gains to about 7%.<\/p>\n

Operating profit for the October-December quarter surged 64% year on year to 113.6 billion yen ($741.8 million). The company also raised its operating profit forecast<\/a> for the year ending March 2026 by 21.4% to 454 billion yen on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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

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Advantest also cited continued strength in memory testers for high-performance dynamic random-access memory.<\/p>\n

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

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

While Advantest’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.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[66835,220,218,219,726,122,61,60,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-269417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-advantest-corp","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-breaking-news-technology","13":"tag-business-news","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}