The Top Three - Capital Equipment - KLA-Tencor, Applied Materials, Hitachi High-Technologies - list

Electronic News, June 3, 2002

VLSI 2001 Equipment Market-Share Data

Process Diagnostics Equipment

KLA - Tencor 35%

Applied Materials 10%

Hitachi High-Technologies 5%

Market Size $ 3.9 billion

Mfrg Connectivity & Design and Test Integration Systems

KLA Tencor 30%

Brooks Automation 2%

PRI Automation 5%

Market Size $368.4 million

CMP Equipment

Applied Materials 55%

Ebara 20%

Speedfam-IPEC 10%

Market Size $ 1.2 billion

Deposition

Applied Materials 45%

Novellus 10%

Tokyo Electron 5%

Market Size $ 7.5 billion

Dry Processing

Tokyo Electron 25%

Lam Research 15%

Applied Materials 20%

Market Size $ 3.9 billion

Wet Processing

Dainippon Screen Mfg. 30%

SCP Global Technologies 5%

Tokyo Electron 5%

Market Size $ 1.9 billion

SOURCE: VLSI RESEARCH

The chip equipment market shrunk to $39.3 billion last year, a 34.7 percent decline over the peak of 2000, according to VLSI Research Inc. VLSI just released its 2001 market-share data for various equipment markets last week. Assembly equipment was the worst-performing segment; it declined 55.7 percent in 2001. This was followed by test and related equipment with a 42.5 percent decline and wafer-process equipment suppliers, which suffered a 30 percent decline.