Just saw this article from Business Wire:
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12:04 ET NEW TRIPOLI, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 4, 2002--The Metrology and Inspection market will grow 33% in 2002, reaching revenues of $6.1 billion, according to the report "Applied Materials: Competing for World Dominance", recently published by The Information Network, a New Tripoli, PA-based market research company.
The total worldwide market size for M&I was $4,578 million in 2001, up 130.1% from $1,990 million in 2000. "The expanded use of M&I tools is assured with the increasing difficulties and higher production cost of semiconductor manufacturing", notes Dr. Robert N. Castellano, President of The Information Network. "Existing fabs continue to upgrade their monitoring capabilities by adding more units to their leading edge fabs.
New 300mm fab construction will account for about 40% of sales in the inspection sector." "The recovery has started", added Dr. Castellano. "In addition to the large M&I market growth, the entire front-end semiconductor equipment market will grow 8.2% in 2002, as stated in our press release (BusinessWire) of February 15, 2002.
"Hitachi (NYSE:HIT.N) led the market with a 58.0% share in 2001, followed by KLA-Tencor (NASDAQ:KLAC.Q) and Applied Materials (NASDAQ:AMAT.Q).
The Wafer Defect market will grow 28.1% in 2002 to $3.7 billion. KLA-Tencor led the market with a 77.3% share in 2001. Other vendors include Applied Materials, Hitachi, Inspex, August Technology (NASDAQ:AUGT.Q), Schlumberger (NYSE:SLB), FEI (NASDAQ:FEIC.Q), Philips Analytical, and Olympus.
The automated defect market (defect review) market will grow 34.0% in 2002 to $900 million. Applied Materials led the market in 2001 with a 68.8% share. |
