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 it has received a follow-on production order from its lead silicon photonics wafer-level burn-in (WLBI) customer for a fully automated FOX-XP® multi-wafer production burn-in system to support the continued expansion of the customer's manufacturing capacity for next-generation silicon photonic integrated circuits.

The AI industry is rapidly transitioning from moving electrons to moving photons, driving a significant expansion in silicon photonics as hyperscale data centers seek higher bandwidth, lower latency, improved power efficiency, and greater scalability. As silicon photonic integrated circuits become increasingly critical to next-generation AI networking, optical switching, co-packaged optics, linear pluggable optics, and chip-to-chip optical I/O architectures, manufacturers are placing greater emphasis on production-scale reliability screening and WLBI to ensure long-term performance while improving manufacturing yields and reducing production costs.