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1. Aehr Test Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:AEHR)

Aehr Test Systems soared to a fresh all-time high on Wednesday after posting an optimistic outlook for its business, thanks to a strong demand for its testing technology from semiconductor giants.

In intra-day trading, the stock climbed to its highest price of $66.28 before trimming gains to finish the session just up by 25.69 percent at $63.16 apiece.

In a statement during Aehr Test Systems Inc.’s (NASDAQ:AEHR) earnings call, President and CEO Gayn Erickson announced big wins, including a new major customer for its high-power FOX-XP WLBI system for devices aimed at the hyperscale data center optical interconnect market.

Erickson said that the new customer is currently developing advanced silicon photonics–based transceivers for data center networking and optical I/O applications to address the rapidly accelerating demand for high-speed fiber optic communication links in hyperscale AI and cloud data centers.

“We believe this win positions Aehr to participate in what could be a significant multiyear expansion of silicon photonics production driven by the growth of fiber optic interconnects in hyperscale AI data centers,” he said.

Additionally, Aehr Test Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:AEHR) bagged a new contract with a major AI customer for multiple testing machines for use in data centers, as well as a large data center customer testing its system to test custom AI chips at scale.

It said that the latter tapped Aehr Test Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:AEHR) for its next-generation chips, translating to more future orders.

In other news, the company widened its net loss in the last quarter ending February 2026 by 398 percent to $3.2 million from only $643,000 in the same period a year earlier. Revenues also decreased by 43.7 percent to $10.3 million from $18.3 million year-on-year.