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# Chroma's revenue nearly triples as chip tester sales surge for AI and HPC customers
- URL: https://asia-tech-news.ghost.io/chromas-revenue-nearly-triples-as-chip-tester-sales-surge-for-ai-and-hpc-customers/
- Published: 2026-10-29T15:02:40.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-29T15:02:40.000Z
- Description: Chroma credits AI data-center buildout for surging demand for its testers of server power supplies and AI chips.
- Author: Cbot Crew
- Tags: Smart factories, AI servers & data centers, Semiconductors, Chroma ATE, Test Research, Inc., Nvidia, AMD, Google, #edibot, #edibot-changed

Chroma ATE (致茂電子), a maker of test equipment in Taoyuan, Taiwan, said third-quarter revenue rose 180% from a year earlier to NT$17.9 billion (about US$552 million). Both main businesses surged, and its chip testers grew faster than its larger power-electronics test line.

![Line chart of Chroma's monthly revenue growth in 2026, rising to a peak in September, with two Taiwan peers far lower in August and September](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ee/75/ee752601-b00a-4462-8adc-9ba02679db9f/content/images/2026/10/2026-10-29-taiwan-chroma-revenue-growth-chart.png)

Chroma's Oct. 29 [results presentation](https://www.chromaate.com/downloads/investors/pdf/quarterly%5Freports/2026/20261029%5FQ3%5Fquarterly%5Freports%5Fpresentation%5Ftc.pdf?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io) splits revenue by line for the parent company, which brought in NT$14.3 billion (about US$441 million) of the quarter's total. Measurement and automated test equipment, the line that includes Chroma's testers for AI-server power supplies, brought in NT$7.4 billion (about US$229 million), up 147% from a year earlier, or 52% of parent-company revenue. Semiconductor and photonics test brought in NT$6.1 billion (about US$186 million), up 189% from a year earlier, or 42%.

That is the shift [Chroma](https://www.chromaate.com/en/?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io) forecast in its [July outlook](https://www.chromaate.com/downloads/investors/pdf/quarterly%5Freports/2026/20260730%5FQ2%5Fquarterly%5Freports%5Fpresentation%5Ftc.pdf?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io), which named chip testing as the main driver of second-half revenue: from the second quarter, semiconductor and photonics test revenue rose 38%, against 21% for measurement and automated test equipment. It pointed to system-level testing (SLT), which checks a chip under conditions like those in its final system, for AI and high-performance computing.

Chroma's growth has also far outpaced that of the two other listed Taiwanese inspection-equipment makers we track. Its September revenue rose 206.5% from a year earlier to NT$6.86 billion (about US$211 million), its [monthly filing](https://mops.twse.com.tw/mops/?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io#/web/t05st10%5Fifrs) shows, against about 47% for the other two combined, by our calculation from the same filings. One of them, Taipei-based [Test Research](https://www.tri.com.tw/en/?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io) (德律), credited server, networking and chip-industry demand for its September revenue rise of 54% from a year earlier, to NT$868 million (about US$27 million). Test Research, at least, sells inspection systems to electronics makers rather than chip or power-supply testers, so the gap says more about Chroma's mix than about its peers.

Third-quarter operating profit rose 288% from a year earlier to NT$7.2 billion (about US$221 million). Net profit rose only 11%, to NT$5.6 billion (about US$174 million), because the year-earlier quarter included a NT$3.2 billion (about US$98 million) gain from transferring residential land to employees.

At its first-quarter results conference, Chroma said the world's three biggest AI and high-performance computing companies all use its SLT equipment, the [Commercial Times (工商時報) reported](https://www.ctee.com.tw/news/20260504700495-430201?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io). Besides [Nvidia](https://www.nvidia.com/?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io), it said, [AMD](https://www.amd.com/?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io) and [Google](https://about.google/?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io) would contribute revenue from this year.

*Sources:* [*致茂電子 Chroma ATE (Q3 2026 results presentation)*](https://www.chromaate.com/downloads/investors/pdf/quarterly%5Freports/2026/20261029%5FQ3%5Fquarterly%5Freports%5Fpresentation%5Ftc.pdf?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io)*,* [*致茂電子 Chroma ATE (Q2 2026 results presentation)*](https://www.chromaate.com/downloads/investors/pdf/quarterly%5Freports/2026/20260730%5FQ2%5Fquarterly%5Freports%5Fpresentation%5Ftc.pdf?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io)*,* [*公開資訊觀測站 MOPS (TWSE/TPEx monthly revenue filings)*](https://mops.twse.com.tw/mops/?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io#/web/t05st10%5Fifrs)*,* [*工商時報 Commercial Times*](https://www.ctee.com.tw/news/20260504700495-430201?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io)*,* [*致茂電子 Chroma ATE (Chroma 3260 Tri-Temp SLT Handler product page)*](https://www.chromaate.com/en/product/automatic%5Fsystem%5Ffunction%5Ftester%5F3260%5F121?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io)

*Editor: Ian Lamont*