TOKYO : Japan's Advantest said on Wednesday booming demand for high bandwidth memory used for artificial intelligence tasks is boosting its memory tester business.
"Currently, HBM makes up roughly 50 per cent of our memory testing business and we see that continuing in the near-term," CEO Douglas Lefever said in an interview. The equipment maker's share in memory testers grew in the business year ended March and it is forecasting 47 per cent growth in annual sales for the memory segment.
"It will drive the business from the cloud, the data centre ... but then what's really going to turbocharge things will be when those edge applications come out," said Lefever, who took up the post in April.The electronics industry, which has been hit by soft demand for smartphones, tablets and PCs, hopes the adoption of AI features will spur consumers to upgrade their devices.