Aehr Test Systems

AEHR

Market cap $2.64B

The small-cap Russell 2000 punched through to an intraday record high on Friday, capping a furious 13-day rally that marks the index's best run since 2020 and signaling that gains are finally broadening beyond the mega-cap tech leaders.

Aehr announced today that it has landed another major new contract for test and package-level burn-in solutions. The company's largest customer has exercised a follow-on order for $41 million in additional hardware.

FREMONT, CA / ACCESS Newswire / April 16, 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 it has received a record $41 million follow-on production order from its lead hyperscale customer for package-level burn-in (PLBI) of custom AI processor ASICs. The order is the largest in Aehr's history and supports high-volume production burn-in of ASICs used in data center training and inference AI workloads.

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Aehr Test Systems (AEHR) reached a significant support level, and could be a good pick for investors from a technical perspective. Recently, AEHR's 50-day simple moving average broke out above its 200-day moving average; this is known as a "golden cross.

Here is how Aehr Test Systems (AEHR) and Amkor Technology (AMKR) have performed compared to their sector so far this year.

Aehr Test Systems NASDAQ: AEHR, a small company in the semiconductor industry, has been indisputably one of the market's best performers of 2026. During the year, AEHR is one of just five stocks in the Russell 3000 Index to deliver a return of more than 200%.

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Aehr Test Systems reported another set of mediocre quarterly results with revenues coming in below consensus expectations and persistent cash burn. However, a recent surge in system orders has resulted in AEHR's backlog increasing to new all-time highs. Consequently, FY2027 should be a year of strong revenue growth for the company. However, with package-level burn-in products expected to contribute the majority of sales for the time being, Aehr's gross margins are not likely to recover to previous levels anytime soon.