Japan's Advantest said on Wednesday it sees growing demand for its chip testing equipment for memory used for artificial intelligence tasks while reporting a drag from weak electronics sales. Advantest said it sees sales of memory testers reaching 244 billion yen ($1.65 billion) in the financial year ending March, an increase of 5 billion yen from its October outlook but down a quarter on the same period a year earlier. "In order to fulfil all the demand increase in the market we need to make further efforts," Advantest CEO Yoshiaki Yoshida told an earnings briefing.