Teradyne shattered Wall Street's estimates with earning of $0.25 a share on sales of $372.26 million for the quarter.

Thanks to its Flex line of system-on-a-chip (SoC) testers, the company actually reported sales of $391.6 million for the second quarter of 2006, up from $362.9 million in the previous quarter and $226.2 million a year ago.

Net income in the quarter was $82.4 million, or $0.40 per share, compared to $44.9 million, or $0.23 a share, in the previous period, and a loss of $45.7 million, or minus $0.26 a share, a year ago.

Sources believe the Flex is taking the ATE world by storm. Outside of Intel, which is using Advantest Inc.'s T2000 tester, Teradyne's Flex is said to be grabbing market share in the SoC test business at the expense of its rivals.

Teradyne's sales in the third quarter of 2006 are expected to be between $340 million and $370 million, with earnings per diluted share between $0.17 and $0.24.

Meanwhile, Aehr Test (Fremont, Calif.), a supplier of semiconductor test and burn-in equipment, said sales were $7.0 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2006, an increase of 115 percent from $3.3 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2005.

The company reported net income of $528,000, or $0.07 per diluted share, in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2006, compared with a net loss of $1.7 million, or $0.23 per diluted share, in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2005.

Some Analysts see sizzling growth ahead for ATE sales. Neverless, others believe that visibility still remains low and orders are choppy at best in the overall ATE market.

By: DocMemory
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