Semiconductor-Equipment Market Fell 32% in 2002, Dataquest Says
By Dan Goodin, 04/07 14:46
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San Jose, California, April 7 (Bloomberg) -- Sales of equipment used to make semiconductors fell 32 percent in 2002, the second consecutive annual decline and the steepest ever, Gartner Inc.'s Dataquest market-research unit said.
Global sales of chip-making equipment dropped to $16.5 billion from $24.1 billion in 2001, Dataquest said in a release distributed on Business Wire. The 2001 sales total was a 29 percent drop from 2000, the company said.
Sales at ASML Holding NV, Europe's largest maker of semiconductor equipment, rose 25 percent to $1.6 billion, making it the only such company in the world's top 10 with increased revenue, Dataquest said. ASML passed KLA-Tencor Corp. and Nikon Corp. to claim the No. 3 spot.
``All major segments were affected by the industry decline in 2002,'' Dataquest analyst Dean Freeman said in the statement. New manufacturing methods known as silicon germanium epitaxy and atomic layer deposition were exceptions and showed growth, he said.
Applied Materials Inc. is still the world's biggest maker of computer-chip production equipment and gained 1.8 percentage points of market share in 2002 to 22.2 percent, Dataquest said. Its 2002 chip-equipment revenue declined 25 percent to $3.67 billion, Dataquest said. Tokyo Electron Ltd. stayed in second place with sales of $1.67 billion, down 37 percent.
Dataquest, based in San Jose, California, has said slumping computer demand will hurt chip sales this year. |
